SIEM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 107 140
Rank change year-on-year -74 +33 +138
Contract jobs citing SIEM 162 416 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 2.00% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.37% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 299 305
10th Percentile £416 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £513 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £663 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £551 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.17% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £72.90
Median % change year-on-year +101.69% -45.13% +10.79%
75th Percentile £81.01 £63.44 £77.50
90th Percentile - £74.63 £77.98
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +101.69% -46.67% +13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SIEM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 -2 66 £525 -16.00% 117
West Midlands -18 44 £551 -8.17% 22
Midlands -22 44 £551 -8.17% 33
North of England +16 22 £580 -17.14% 54
East of England +37 14 £600 - 40
Yorkshire 0 13 £613 -23.44% 15
Scotland +8 12 £500 -3.85% 39
North West +14 9 £525 -17.65% 34
South West -75 7 £575 +0.88% 31
SIEM
UK

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.31%) Azure
2 26 (16.05%) AWS
3 16 (9.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 12 (7.41%) GCP
5 9 (5.56%) GitHub
6 8 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.47%) PaaS
8 3 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.62%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.62%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.62%) SaaS
10 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (22.84%) Firewall
2 28 (17.28%) Network Security
3 16 (9.88%) SMTP
4 15 (9.26%) DNS
4 15 (9.26%) SSL
5 14 (8.64%) VPN
6 12 (7.41%) BGP
7 11 (6.79%) OSPF
7 11 (6.79%) TCP/IP
7 11 (6.79%) VLAN
8 7 (4.32%) FTP
8 7 (4.32%) HTTP
8 7 (4.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (3.09%) IPsec
10 4 (2.47%) DHCP
10 4 (2.47%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.85%) NGFW
11 3 (1.85%) WAN
12 2 (1.23%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.62%) DB2
4 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.32%) JIRA
2 4 (2.47%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.85%) GitLab
3 3 (1.85%) JMeter
3 3 (1.85%) Postman
3 3 (1.85%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.85%) Selenium
3 3 (1.85%) TestNG
3 3 (1.85%) Travis CI
General
1 58 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.31%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.64%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.17%) Finance
6 5 (3.09%) Banking
6 5 (3.09%) Electronics
6 5 (3.09%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.09%) Marketing
7 4 (2.47%) Legal
8 3 (1.85%) Law
8 3 (1.85%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Aviation
9 2 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.23%) Local Government
9 2 (1.23%) Police
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 34 (20.99%) Analyst
2 23 (14.20%) Security Engineer
3 21 (12.96%) SOC Analyst
4 19 (11.73%) Architect
5 15 (9.26%) Security Architect
6 12 (7.41%) Security Analyst
7 10 (6.17%) Lead
7 10 (6.17%) SIEM Engineer
8 9 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Senior
10 6 (3.70%) Consultant
10 6 (3.70%) Incident Analyst
10 6 (3.70%) Incident Responder
10 6 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
10 6 (3.70%) Security Incident Analyst
10 6 (3.70%) Security Operations Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) Check Point Expert
11 5 (3.09%) Security Specialist
12 4 (2.47%) Senior Architect
12 4 (2.47%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.26%) REST
2 9 (5.56%) LDAP
3 7 (4.32%) JSON
4 4 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.85%) SAML
6 1 (0.62%) OAuth
6 1 (0.62%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.99%) Cyber Threat
2 29 (17.90%) Security Operations Centre
3 22 (13.58%) CSOC
4 19 (11.73%) Security Posture
5 18 (11.11%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (4.94%) Cyberattack
7 8 (4.94%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.70%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.85%) SCADA
11 2 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (1.23%) PKI
11 2 (1.23%) Robotics
12 1 (0.62%) Cloud Security Posture
12 1 (0.62%) Cyber Security Posture
12 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.99%) Windows
2 21 (12.96%) Linux
3 9 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.94%) VMS
5 6 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.09%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (1.23%) Unix
7 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (38.89%) Security Operations
3 58 (35.80%) Incident Response
4 36 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (20.99%) Vulnerability Management
6 27 (16.67%) Threat Detection
7 24 (14.81%) Threat Intelligence
8 23 (14.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 22 (13.58%) Security Monitoring
10 21 (12.96%) Cloud Security
11 17 (10.49%) Risk Management
12 14 (8.64%) Analytics
12 14 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (8.64%) Event Correlation
12 14 (8.64%) Incident Management
12 14 (8.64%) Information Security
13 13 (8.02%) SOAR
14 12 (7.41%) CI/CD
14 12 (7.41%) DevOps
15 11 (6.79%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.28%) Python
2 27 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
4 10 (6.17%) Bash
5 1 (0.62%) Go
5 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (30.25%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 30 (18.52%) CISSP
4 21 (12.96%) Degree
5 20 (12.35%) DV Cleared
6 13 (8.02%) CISM
7 12 (7.41%) CEH
8 10 (6.17%) CCSE
8 10 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (6.17%) GIAC
9 9 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (4.32%) CISA
12 6 (3.70%) CCNP
12 6 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (3.09%) CCSA
13 5 (3.09%) Check Point Certification
13 5 (3.09%) SANS
14 4 (2.47%) Azure Certification
14 4 (2.47%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.88%) NIST
2 14 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.94%) GDPR
4 6 (3.70%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.09%) QA
6 3 (1.85%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.85%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.23%) SLA
8 1 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.62%) GRC
8 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.62%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.62%) NCSC
8 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.56%) Docker
3 6 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.09%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.47%) NFS
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (14.20%) Ansible
2 9 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 9 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.56%) QRadar
3 6 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.70%) Terraform
4 4 (2.47%) CASB
4 4 (2.47%) Kibana
4 4 (2.47%) vRealize
4 4 (2.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 3 (1.85%) Nessus
5 3 (1.85%) SCCM
6 2 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.23%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.23%) Grafana
6 2 (1.23%) WSUS
7 1 (0.62%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.62%) logstash
7 1 (0.62%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 33 (20.37%) Splunk
3 23 (14.20%) Palo Alto
4 18 (11.11%) Cisco
5 15 (9.26%) Fortinet
6 13 (8.02%) SolarWinds
7 11 (6.79%) CheckPoint
7 11 (6.79%) VMware
8 10 (6.17%) ServiceNow
9 9 (5.56%) F5
10 8 (4.94%) Red Hat
11 7 (4.32%) ArcSight
11 7 (4.32%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (3.70%) CyberArk
12 6 (3.70%) Tenable
13 5 (3.09%) Rapid7
13 5 (3.09%) SAP
14 4 (2.47%) Google
14 4 (2.47%) LogRhythm
15 3 (1.85%) IBM