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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 99 107
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing SIEM 20 23 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.87% 1.32% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.42% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 19
10th Percentile £388 £450 £419
25th Percentile £469 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +1.77% -4.84%
75th Percentile £613 £725 £756
90th Percentile £738 £768 £925
Central London median daily rate £544 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -5.43% +5.50% -8.21%

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 1,954 1,625 1,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.52% 93.61% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,017 1,379
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.16 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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

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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 20 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Network Security
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) BGP
4 1 (5.00%) Broadband
4 1 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) IPsec
4 1 (5.00%) OSPF
4 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Snyk
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Junior
3 2 (10.00%) Junior Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) SOC Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (35.00%) SOAR
3 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 4 (20.00%) Runbook
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (15.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (15.00%) Threat Detection
7 2 (10.00%) AI
7 2 (10.00%) Data Mapping
7 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 2 (10.00%) ITIL
7 2 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
3 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Icinga
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
2 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Splunk
3 3 (15.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (15.00%) LogRhythm
4 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (10.00%) McAfee
4 2 (10.00%) OneTrust
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Trend Micro
4 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.00%) BT
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) ForeScout
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.00%) Okta
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Qualys
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Tenable