Security Engineer Contracts in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer daily rate in England is £573 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 226 360
Rank change year-on-year -51 +134 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 317 579 518
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.86% 1.18% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.25% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 416 359
10th Percentile £411 £419 £323
25th Percentile £425 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £684 £675
90th Percentile £768 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 11
10th Percentile - £60.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £30.70 £73.33 £36.83
Median hourly rate £55.90 £83.36 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +53.14% +14.59%
75th Percentile £80.85 £83.40 £71.89
90th Percentile £82.39 £88.38 £81.23
UK median hourly rate £55.90 £83.36 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% +66.71% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -15 179 £600 -3.61% 102
South East +15 55 £450 -18.18% 44
South West +16 29 £600 +14.29% 29
Midlands -5 17 £650 +19.54% 32
West Midlands -8 15 £650 +18.18% 20
North of England -35 15 £550 +4.76% 27
North West -35 10 £538 +10.60% 20
East of England +12 5 £600 +26.32% 30
Yorkshire +10 5 £622 +8.17% 3
East Midlands +18 2 £550 +6.08% 12
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 92 (29.02%) Cybersecurity
2 91 (28.71%) Azure
3 87 (27.44%) Security Cleared
4 76 (23.97%) SIEM
5 73 (23.03%) Python
5 73 (23.03%) Firewall
6 71 (22.40%) Network Security
7 64 (20.19%) Microsoft
8 62 (19.56%) AWS
9 61 (19.24%) Finance
10 51 (16.09%) PowerShell
10 51 (16.09%) Terraform
11 49 (15.46%) Windows
11 49 (15.46%) Cloud Security
12 46 (14.51%) DV Cleared
13 44 (13.88%) Social Skills
14 43 (13.56%) CISSP
15 41 (12.93%) SC Cleared
16 38 (11.99%) CI/CD
17 35 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (10.41%) Information Security
18 33 (10.41%) Vulnerability Management
19 32 (10.09%) Palo Alto
20 31 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
21 30 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 30 (9.46%) Active Directory
21 30 (9.46%) Incident Response
21 30 (9.46%) Security Posture
22 29 (9.15%) Splunk
23 28 (8.83%) DevOps

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 91 (28.71%) Azure
2 62 (19.56%) AWS
3 24 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.62%) Entra ID
4 21 (6.62%) GCP
5 19 (5.99%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (3.15%) GitHub
7 8 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.21%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (2.21%) CloudFront
8 7 (2.21%) Serverless
9 6 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.58%) Mimecast
10 5 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.26%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 73 (23.03%) Firewall
2 71 (22.40%) Network Security
3 28 (8.83%) DNS
4 22 (6.94%) VPN
5 10 (3.15%) BGP
6 9 (2.84%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.21%) DHCP
7 7 (2.21%) LAN
8 6 (1.89%) HTTP
8 6 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (1.89%) OSPF
8 6 (1.89%) WAN
9 4 (1.26%) DKIM
9 4 (1.26%) DMARC
9 4 (1.26%) DMZ
9 4 (1.26%) IPsec
9 4 (1.26%) NGFW
9 4 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.84%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.21%) Big Data
4 4 (1.26%) Metadata
4 4 (1.26%) Power BI
5 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.32%) MySQL
7 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.15%) JIRA
2 8 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.21%) Burp Suite
4 6 (1.89%) Git
5 5 (1.58%) GitLab
6 4 (1.26%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.95%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.95%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.63%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.63%) Snyk
8 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
9 1 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 61 (19.24%) Finance
2 44 (13.88%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.52%) Banking
5 22 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.42%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.52%) Retail
8 7 (2.21%) Automotive
9 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.26%) Marketing
10 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Electronics
11 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.95%) Law
12 2 (0.63%) Advertising
12 2 (0.63%) Military
12 2 (0.63%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.32%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.52%) OAuth
1 8 (2.52%) SAML
1 8 (2.52%) YAML
2 7 (2.21%) JSON
3 6 (1.89%) OAuth2
3 6 (1.89%) XML
4 5 (1.58%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.26%) React
5 4 (1.26%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.26%) Vue
5 4 (1.26%) Web Services
6 3 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.95%) Kafka
6 3 (0.95%) RESTful
7 2 (0.63%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.63%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.63%) REST
7 2 (0.63%) SOAP
7 2 (0.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.46%) Security Posture
2 27 (8.52%) PKI
3 20 (6.31%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.73%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.84%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (2.21%) Cyberattack
10 7 (2.21%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.58%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.46%) Windows
2 18 (5.68%) Linux
3 14 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.84%) Unix
5 6 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.95%) Android
7 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.63%) zOS
9 1 (0.32%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (29.02%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (23.97%) SIEM
3 49 (15.46%) Cloud Security
4 38 (11.99%) CI/CD
5 35 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (10.41%) Information Security
6 33 (10.41%) Vulnerability Management
7 30 (9.46%) Incident Response
8 28 (8.83%) Application Security
8 28 (8.83%) DevOps
9 26 (8.20%) Security Operations
10 25 (7.89%) DevSecOps
11 24 (7.57%) Identity Access Management
12 21 (6.62%) Penetration Testing
12 21 (6.62%) Security Architecture
13 20 (6.31%) Agile
14 19 (5.99%) Analytics
15 18 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (5.36%) Static Application Security Testing
16 17 (5.36%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 73 (23.03%) Python
2 51 (16.09%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.79%) Bash
4 10 (3.15%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.84%) SQL
6 5 (1.58%) Go
7 4 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.26%) Perl
8 3 (0.95%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) Java
10 1 (0.32%) C
10 1 (0.32%) C++
10 1 (0.32%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.51%) DV Cleared
3 43 (13.56%) CISSP
4 41 (12.93%) SC Cleared
5 28 (8.83%) Degree
6 19 (5.99%) CISM
7 14 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.79%) CCNP
9 10 (3.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (2.84%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.52%) CEH
12 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.58%) GIAC
13 4 (1.26%) CCIE
13 4 (1.26%) CISA
14 3 (0.95%) CCNA
14 3 (0.95%) CCSP
14 3 (0.95%) GSEC
14 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (8.20%) NIST
3 8 (2.52%) NCSC
3 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.58%) QA
5 4 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.26%) COBIT
5 4 (1.26%) GDPR
6 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.95%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.95%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.63%) ISA99
7 2 (0.63%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.63%) RMADS
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (9.46%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.79%) Docker
2 12 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.79%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.95%) vSphere
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.63%) XenApp
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (16.09%) Terraform
2 27 (8.52%) Ansible
3 10 (3.15%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.84%) SCCM
5 7 (2.21%) ArcSight ESM
6 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.58%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.58%) Nessus
7 5 (1.58%) QRadar
8 4 (1.26%) CASB
8 4 (1.26%) Functional Safety
8 4 (1.26%) Puppet
8 4 (1.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.95%) Grafana
9 3 (0.95%) Kibana
9 3 (0.95%) logstash
9 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.09%) Palo Alto
3 29 (9.15%) Splunk
4 24 (7.57%) VMware
5 23 (7.26%) Cisco
6 20 (6.31%) ArcSight
7 16 (5.05%) Qualys
8 15 (4.73%) F5
9 14 (4.42%) Fortinet
10 9 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (2.84%) Google
11 8 (2.52%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.21%) Dell
12 7 (2.21%) Rapid7
12 7 (2.21%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.89%) CA
13 6 (1.89%) LogRhythm
14 5 (1.58%) Citrix
14 5 (1.58%) Red Hat
15 4 (1.26%) Meraki