SIEM Engineer Contracts

SIEM Engineer
UK

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the UK is £559, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 511 679
Rank change year-on-year +5 +168 +143
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 14 71 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.16% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.18% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 58 27
10th Percentile £521 £550 -
25th Percentile £526 £756 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £800 £603
Median % change year-on-year -30.19% +32.78% +92.80%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £663
90th Percentile £675 - £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £800 £470
% change year-on-year -32.69% +70.21% +50.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer.

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England 0 13 £567 -29.13% 10
UK excluding London +41 10 £539 -32.69% 8
South East +47 7 £527 -34.13% 2
South West +36 2 £550 -31.25% 2
London +2 2 £650 -18.75% 3
Midlands +10 1 - - 3
West Midlands +2 1 - - 3

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) SIEM
2 10 (71.43%) Security Operations
3 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (64.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (57.14%) Incident Response
5 7 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (50.00%) Process Improvement
5 7 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (50.00%) Azure
5 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (42.86%) GIAC
6 6 (42.86%) JSON
6 6 (42.86%) REST
6 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
6 6 (42.86%) CSOC
6 6 (42.86%) Data Lake
6 6 (42.86%) Onboarding
7 5 (35.71%) Python
8 4 (28.57%) AWS
8 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
8 4 (28.57%) SOAR
8 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
9 3 (21.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 3 (21.43%) Security Analytics
9 3 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
9 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
9 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
9 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DSL
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (64.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) JSON
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (42.86%) CSOC
2 6 (42.86%) Onboarding
3 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (14.29%) Social Media
5 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (7.14%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) SIEM
2 10 (71.43%) Security Operations
3 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (57.14%) Incident Response
5 7 (50.00%) Process Improvement
5 7 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (28.57%) SOAR
6 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
7 3 (21.43%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
7 3 (21.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 3 (21.43%) Security Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
8 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
8 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
8 2 (14.29%) Migration
8 2 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
8 2 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) GIAC
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) QRadar
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kibana
2 1 (7.14%) logstash
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) AlienVault
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) SAP