SIEM Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 79 77
Rank change year-on-year -37 -2 +58
Contract jobs citing SIEM 17 10 33
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.93% 0.84% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.98% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 24
10th Percentile £483 £581 -
25th Percentile £500 £650 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £663 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +17.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £559 £701 £622
90th Percentile £597 £718 £764
England median daily rate £538 £588 £625
% change year-on-year -8.51% -6.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,024 1,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 86.05% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 612 1,041
10th Percentile £250 £235 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -3.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £640 £687 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.65 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Yorkshire

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Yorkshire -5 16 £529 -21.08% 1
South Yorkshire -47 1 - - 1
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) GCP
3 9 (52.94%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) OCI
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Akamai
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) Network Security
3 2 (11.76%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (5.88%) BGP
4 1 (5.88%) IPsec
4 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.88%) SCCP
4 1 (5.88%) SSL
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Security Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Security Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Web Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Cloud Security
2 10 (58.82%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (52.94%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
6 5 (29.41%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (29.41%) SOAR
7 4 (23.53%) Application Security
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (23.53%) Security Architecture
7 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
8 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 3 (17.65%) Information Security
8 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
8 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
2 3 (17.65%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
1 3 (17.65%) CCSP
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (17.65%) CISSP
1 3 (17.65%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (17.65%) GCIA
1 3 (17.65%) GCIH
1 3 (17.65%) GIAC
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) SSCP
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (41.18%) NIST
2 7 (41.18%) PCI DSS
3 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) HIPAA
3 3 (17.65%) NIST 800
3 3 (17.65%) PSD2
3 3 (17.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Rapid7
1 5 (29.41%) Splunk
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) McAfee
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) ArcSight
4 1 (5.88%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) Imperva