SIEM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 91 107
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing SIEM 18 21 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.77% 1.25% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.34% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 19
10th Percentile £366 £450 £419
25th Percentile £463 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £725 £681
90th Percentile £685 £768 £925
Central London median daily rate £544 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -5.43% +12.20% -18.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,971 1,569 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.81% 93.50% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,346 986 1,377
10th Percentile £361 £350 £354
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.04% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -20.54%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in the City of London

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the City of London

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) BGP
3 1 (5.56%) Broadband
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) Internet
3 1 (5.56%) IPsec
3 1 (5.56%) OSPF
3 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Snyk
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Local Government
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Junior
3 2 (11.11%) Junior Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) SOAR
3 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
3 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 4 (22.22%) Runbook
4 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
5 3 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (16.67%) Threat Detection
6 2 (11.11%) AI
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Data Privacy
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) logstash
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 3 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 3 (16.67%) LogRhythm
4 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.11%) McAfee
4 2 (11.11%) OneTrust
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.11%) Trend Micro
4 2 (11.11%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.56%) BT
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) ForeScout
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.56%) Okta
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Tenable