Security Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Security Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £657 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 84 96
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 6 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.57% 0.81% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.90% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £533 £761 -
25th Percentile £544 £764 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £657 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.27% +40.88% +4.76%
75th Percentile £744 £781 £606
90th Percentile £800 £782 £618
South West median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South West median hourly rate £83.41 £83.31 £73.76
% change year-on-year +0.12% +12.95% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,000 1,107 1,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 90.22% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 795 916
10th Percentile £253 £300 £263
25th Percentile £373 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £575
90th Percentile £695 £716 £648
South West median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.19% +5.00% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 137 114
10th Percentile £36.25 £29.60 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £42.29
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +54.90% +5.71%
75th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.50 £66.80
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +36.84% +11.76%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 Bristol region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Qualys
4 1 (16.67%) CISA
4 1 (16.67%) CISM
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Log Correlation
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) SOAR
2 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CISA
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk