SIEM Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

SIEM Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median SIEM Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 May 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 386 446
Rank change year-on-year +51 +60 -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Specialist 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.010% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.011% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £536
25th Percentile - - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £800 £588
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +36.17% -
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - £601
UK median daily rate £450 £800 £588
% change year-on-year -43.75% +36.17% -14.55%

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 11,687 19,029 22,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.56% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,486 11,618 15,791
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,244 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.58 £15.75 £17.92
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%

SIEM Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Specialist in the UK excluding London

SIEM Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM Specialist in the UK excluding London

SIEM Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +42 1 £450 -43.75%
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
SIEM Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, SIEM Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) GCP

SIEM Specialist 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DSL
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk and Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft