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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 109 111
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing SIEM 17 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.76% 1.03% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.10% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 11
10th Percentile £435 £463 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £585
90th Percentile £681 £662 £600
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%

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 1,993 1,643 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.33% 94.21% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,101 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £773 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

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

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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 26 September 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 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (17.65%) Datadog
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Security Tester
4 1 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
2 3 (17.65%) CMDB
3 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
3 5 (29.41%) Security Operations
3 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Event Correlation
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (23.53%) Runbook
4 4 (23.53%) SOAR
4 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
4 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (17.65%) AIOps
5 3 (17.65%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
5 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
5 3 (17.65%) Data Science
5 3 (17.65%) ITSM
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (5.88%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.88%) GIAC
4 1 (5.88%) GPEN
4 1 (5.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) GRC
2 2 (11.76%) NCSC
3 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
1 7 (41.18%) Splunk
2 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
3 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
3 3 (17.65%) OneTrust
4 1 (5.88%) Apple
4 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler