Security Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Security Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £485 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 109 146
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 14 58 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.65% 1.66% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.75% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 43 35
10th Percentile £406 £519 £400
25th Percentile £431 £556 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.40% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £738 £725
90th Percentile £630 £805 £834
Central London median daily rate £485 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -23.02% +14.55% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,055 3,314 3,975
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 94.96% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 2,248 2,987
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £446 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +6.53%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £19.94
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -1.41% +100.14%
75th Percentile £28.44 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -3.45% +104.37%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the City of London

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the City of London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the City of London

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the City of London

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 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 City of London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 4 (28.57%) QRadar
4 4 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 4 (28.57%) CISM
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) SIEM
4 4 (28.57%) Information Security
4 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 4 (28.57%) CISSP
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (28.57%) Firewall
4 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (28.57%) Log Aggregation
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
5 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
6 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (14.29%) Mimecast
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) DKIM
2 2 (14.29%) DMARC
2 2 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Law
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) Information Security
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Log Aggregation
3 4 (28.57%) SIEM
3 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Change Advisory Board
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) ISMS
4 2 (14.29%) OWASP
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISM
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
1 4 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) COBIT
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) QRadar
2 2 (14.29%) CASB
2 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) SCOrch
2 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix
2 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (14.29%) Imperva
2 2 (14.29%) Netskope
2 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow