Senior Security Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 589 761
Rank change year-on-year +67 +172 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 21 59 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.12% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.12% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 40 16
10th Percentile £525 £524 £406
25th Percentile £622 £556 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £713 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +32.56% +7.50%
75th Percentile £745 £783 £609
90th Percentile £768 £826 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £538
% change year-on-year -7.14% +30.23% +7.50%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +75 16 £650 -7.14% 30
North of England +27 2 £450 -23.11% 5
North West +23 2 £450 -42.53% 4
South West +11 2 - - 2
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 5 (23.81%) Windows
4 5 (23.81%) Python
5 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (19.05%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (19.05%) YAML
5 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
5 4 (19.05%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
5 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
5 4 (19.05%) Functional Safety
5 4 (19.05%) Safety Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 3 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Terraform
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) YAML
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
2 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) IoT
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (19.05%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (19.05%) Safety Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
3 4 (19.05%) Threat Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) SIEM
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) GIAC
3 1 (4.76%) OSCP
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Functional Safety
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) CA
4 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.76%) Juniper