Security Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Security Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 102 126
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 6 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.40% 0.85% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.89% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 20
10th Percentile - £375 £399
25th Percentile £425 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £680 £638 £688
North West median daily rate £538 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +9.03% -6.10% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,427 1,805 2,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.84% 96.42% 97.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 1,346 1,993
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £655
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 49 59
10th Percentile £12.02 £16.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.26 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.32
% change year-on-year -23.83% +72.29% +13.49%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Manchester

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Manchester

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Manchester

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

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

1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) CISSP
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) CISM
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (33.33%) Cyberattack
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) Red Team
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Insider Threat

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Insider Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Red Team
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 1 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) NCSC
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Fortify
1 1 (16.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk