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 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 589 760
Rank change year-on-year +73 +171 -136
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 25 54 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.11% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.12% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 15
10th Percentile £501 £554 £433
25th Percentile £566 £600 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% +20.60%
75th Percentile £684 £783 £700
90th Percentile £747 £815 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% +10.00%

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 33,857 45,213 67,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,443 32,115 47,974
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £649
90th Percentile £750 £763 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,492 1,325 1,826
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.42% +7.10%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%

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 24 May 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 24 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 +60 14 £650 -10.34% 33
North of England +35 2 £450 -42.53% 4
North West +31 2 £450 -42.53% 3
South West +17 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £625 - 15
Midlands +31 1 £550 +2.33% 5
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 3
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.00%) Windows
4 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Safety Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Functional Safety
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (12.00%) Python
6 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (12.00%) Cisco
6 3 (12.00%) SIEM
6 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Terraform
6 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.00%) 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 8 (32.00%) AWS
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 2 (8.00%) Finance
1 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Legal
2 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) YAML
2 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (16.00%) Agile
2 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (16.00%) DevOps
2 4 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (16.00%) Safety Engineering
2 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (16.00%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (12.00%) SIEM
3 3 (12.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (8.00%) Application Security
4 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (8.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (8.00%) SDLC
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCDP
4 1 (4.00%) CCIE
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) GIAC
4 1 (4.00%) OSCP
4 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Functional Safety
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
2 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) CA
3 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.00%) Juniper
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat