Security Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Security Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 64 94
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 4 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.52% 1.22% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.26% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £600 £313 -
25th Percentile £600 £467 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £641 £538
90th Percentile £720 £650 -
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +18.18% +29.41% -19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 715 870 1,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 96.24% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 583 930
10th Percentile £250 £263 £210
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £583
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.25% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 22
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.53
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £14.08
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.35% -2.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +8.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Birmingham

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Birmingham

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Birmingham

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Offensive Security
3 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) LogRhythm
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (50.00%) CASP
3 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) GIAC
3 2 (50.00%) GSEC
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (50.00%) Trend Micro
3 2 (50.00%) BC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) TippingPoint
3 2 (50.00%) Change Control

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Regular Expression
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (50.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Change Control
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Offensive Security
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Key Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) CASP
2 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (50.00%) GCED
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 2 (50.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (50.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Trend Micro
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk