SIEM Contract Job Trends in Wales

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 47 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing SIEM 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.84% 0.22% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.28% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £310 - £297
25th Percentile £419 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.25%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - £610
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -10.42% -2.83% +2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% -20.69% +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 392 357 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 82.01% 79.16% 88.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 206 312
10th Percentile £184 £143 £173
25th Percentile £261 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £419 £431
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -2.90% -13.75%
75th Percentile £497 £544 £575
90th Percentile £613 £644 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 48 26
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.48 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.78 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £19.10 £24.33 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.52% -6.42% +37.17%
75th Percentile £24.76 £37.96 £50.00
90th Percentile £27.30 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SIEM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

SIEM job vacancy trend in Wales

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Wales over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Wales

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 November 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 Wales - 4 £600 - 13
SIEM
UK

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CSOC
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Availability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (25.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (25.00%) Check_MK
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable
1 1 (25.00%) VMware