Security Engineer Contracts in the South West

Security Engineer
England > South West

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the South West is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 141 155
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 29 33 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.92% 0.91% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.98% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 9
10th Percentile £500 £438 £470
25th Percentile £525 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £650 £675
90th Percentile £680 £779 £719
England median daily rate £573 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.58% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 7
10th Percentile - £62.00 £47.41
25th Percentile - £70.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £83.41 £83.31 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% +48.77% -
75th Percentile - £83.40 £80.13
90th Percentile - - £82.46
England median hourly rate £55.90 £83.31 £52.50
% change year-on-year -32.90% +58.70% +10.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,957 3,370 3,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 92.56% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,526 2,536
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 273 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £51.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +9.30%
75th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £69.36
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Wiltshire +5 15 £600 +20.00% 2
Bristol +14 5 £600 -22.57% 12
Gloucestershire -3 3 £500 -20.00% 2
Somerset +4 2 £700 +43.59% 8
Dorset - 2 £73 - 3
Devon -2 1 £600 - 2
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 South West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (79.31%) Security Cleared
2 17 (58.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (41.38%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (37.93%) SIEM
5 10 (34.48%) AWS
6 9 (31.03%) Network Security
6 9 (31.03%) Azure
6 9 (31.03%) NIST
7 8 (27.59%) Firewall
7 8 (27.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (27.59%) Cloud Security
8 7 (24.14%) SOAR
8 7 (24.14%) DV Cleared
8 7 (24.14%) Security Architecture
9 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
9 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
9 6 (20.69%) Terraform
10 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
10 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
10 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
10 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (17.24%) Splunk
10 5 (17.24%) NCSC
10 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
11 4 (13.79%) Digital Strategy
11 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
11 4 (13.79%) Analytics
11 4 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
11 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudTrail

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) Network Security
2 8 (27.59%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) DMZ
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.45%) DNS
4 1 (3.45%) Internet
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) ModSecurity
1 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.34%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
4 2 (6.90%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (37.93%) SIEM
3 8 (27.59%) Cloud Security
4 7 (24.14%) Security Architecture
4 7 (24.14%) SOAR
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
5 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (13.79%) Log Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Threat Detection
6 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (10.34%) Agile
7 3 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Security Operations
7 3 (10.34%) Static Application Security Testing
7 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (79.31%) Security Cleared
2 17 (58.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) DV Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) CISM
4 4 (13.79%) CISSP
5 3 (10.34%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (10.34%) Degree
6 1 (3.45%) CISA
6 1 (3.45%) CLAS
6 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) NIST
2 8 (27.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (17.24%) NCSC
4 2 (6.90%) JSP 440
4 2 (6.90%) RMADS
5 1 (3.45%) GDPR
5 1 (3.45%) ISA99
5 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Dell
3 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) ArcSight
5 1 (3.45%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.45%) Okta
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat