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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 94 103
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +30
Contract jobs citing SIEM 18 24 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.76% 1.41% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.50% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 20
10th Percentile £344 £450 £419
25th Percentile £463 £481 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.53% -16.96%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £659
90th Percentile £703 £739 £925
Central London median daily rate £505 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -12.17% +9.52% -19.23%

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 2,034 1,598 1,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.53% 93.78% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,016 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.48% -5.83%
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 27 15 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -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 10 June 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 Logic Apps
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
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
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Snyk
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) 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 6 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Junior
4 2 (11.11%) Junior Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
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%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
3 5 (27.78%) Runbook
3 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
3 5 (27.78%) SOAR
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 3 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) CCSP
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
2 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%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) OneTrust
4 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
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%) LogRhythm
5 1 (5.56%) Okta
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Tenable