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 citing SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	120	95	108
Rank change year-on-year	-25	+13	+4
Contract jobs citing SIEM	18	22	18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	0.86%	1.31%	0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.93%	1.39%	0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted	9	18	11
10^th Percentile	£460	£444	£425
25^th Percentile	£513	£463	£461
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£563	£525	£555
Median % change year-on-year	+7.09%	-5.28%	+3.16%
75^th Percentile	£600	£617	£594
90^th Percentile	£655	£653	£613
Central London median daily rate	£556	£525	£552
% change year-on-year	+5.90%	-4.89%	+0.41%

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 citing process or methodology skills in the City of London.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	1,932	1,587	1,938
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London	92.04%	94.58%	91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,344	1,096	1,190
10^th Percentile	£375	£325	£363
25^th Percentile	£455	£420	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	-3.20%
75^th Percentile	£675	£675	£688
90^th Percentile	£775	£769	£788
Central London median daily rate	£550	£550	£575
% change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	-1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted	17	18	17
10^th Percentile	-	£16.90	£16.70
25^th Percentile	£17.60	£21.07	£23.13
Median hourly rate	£21.00	£27.75	£42.50
Median % change year-on-year	-24.32%	-34.71%	+54.55%
75^th Percentile	£26.13	£44.63	£112.00
90^th Percentile	£50.40	£63.75	£137.50
Central London median hourly rate	£24.50	£28.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-12.50%	-20.00%	+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 Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the City of London

SIEM Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing SIEM also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region citing SIEM.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	61.1%	11
2	Microsoft	50.0%	9
3	Splunk	44.4%	8
4	CI/CD	33.3%	6
4	Incident Response	33.3%	6
4	Infrastructure as Code	33.3%	6
4	Security Operations	33.3%	6
8	Azure	27.8%	5
8	Azure Sentinel	27.8%	5
8	Event Correlation	27.8%	5
8	Risk Assessment	27.8%	5
8	ServiceNow	27.8%	5
8	Terraform	27.8%	5
8	Vulnerability Management	27.8%	5
8	Vulnerability Remediation	27.8%	5
16	AIOps	22.2%	4
16	Analytics	22.2%	4
16	Anomaly Detection	22.2%	4
16	Azure Logic Apps	22.2%	4
16	Azure Monitor	22.2%	4
16	Data Science	22.2%	4
16	Datadog	22.2%	4
16	Dynatrace	22.2%	4
16	Grafana	22.2%	4
16	ITSM	22.2%	4
16	Observability	22.2%	4
16	Runbook	22.2%	4
16	Security Cleared	22.2%	4
16	Security Monitoring	22.2%	4
16	SOAR	22.2%	4

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	61.1%	11
2	CI/CD	33.3%	6
2	Incident Response	33.3%	6
2	Infrastructure as Code	33.3%	6
2	Security Operations	33.3%	6
6	Event Correlation	27.8%	5
6	Risk Assessment	27.8%	5
6	Vulnerability Management	27.8%	5
6	Vulnerability Remediation	27.8%	5
10	AIOps	22.2%	4
10	Analytics	22.2%	4
10	Anomaly Detection	22.2%	4
10	Data Science	22.2%	4
10	ITSM	22.2%	4
10	Observability	22.2%	4
10	Runbook	22.2%	4
10	Security Monitoring	22.2%	4
10	SOAR	22.2%	4
10	Threat Detection	22.2%	4
20	Data Mapping	16.7%	3