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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 102 110
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing SIEM 16 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 1.23% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.31% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 16
10th Percentile £333 £450 £425
25th Percentile £503 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.73% -12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £606 £591
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -10.57%

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 2,119 1,758 1,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.28% 93.86% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,135 1,354
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.49
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £48.15
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £82.88
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.72% +16.86% -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 12 July 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) BGP
3 1 (6.25%) Broadband
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) Internet
3 1 (6.25%) IPsec
3 1 (6.25%) OSPF
3 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Snyk
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
2 5 (31.25%) Runbook
2 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (25.00%) SOAR
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Data Mapping
4 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Threat Detection
4 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (6.25%) CCNP
4 1 (6.25%) CCSP
4 1 (6.25%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) GRC
2 2 (12.50%) NCSC
3 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) JSP 440
3 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (6.25%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Splunk
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) OneTrust
4 2 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) Zscaler
5 1 (6.25%) Apple
5 1 (6.25%) BT
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.25%) ForeScout
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
5 1 (6.25%) Okta
5 1 (6.25%) Qualys
5 1 (6.25%) Tenable