SIEM Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £517, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 368 416
Rank change year-on-year +12 +48 +93
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 10 19 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.098% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 19
10th Percentile £468 £516 £460
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +17.02% +50.40%
75th Percentile £526 £650 £578
90th Percentile £551 £820 £613
UK median daily rate £588 £635 £545
% change year-on-year -7.48% +16.51% +74.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,609 17,904 21,488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 92.17% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,369 10,947 14,642
10th Percentile £217 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -0.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,166 1,985 1,174
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.25 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +8.04% +87.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £43.81
% change year-on-year -39.40% -5.26% +70.58%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +36 5 £523 -16.32% 1
Midlands -7 3 £485 -11.82%
West Midlands -7 3 £485 -11.82%
South West +32 2 £550 -18.52%
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 July 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Process Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (50.00%) CSOC
4 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (50.00%) JSON
4 5 (50.00%) GIAC
4 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (50.00%) REST
4 5 (50.00%) Data Lake
4 5 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
6 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (30.00%) AWS
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (30.00%) Splunk
7 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (20.00%) Analytics
7 2 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DSL
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) JSON
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CSOC
1 5 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Process Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (20.00%) Security Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Server Management
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Detection
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) GIAC
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) logstash
1 1 (10.00%) QRadar
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) SAP