Information Security Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

As of 6 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Information Security Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 443 501
Rank change year-on-year +56 +58 -66
Contract jobs requiring an Information Security Engineer 1 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.017% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.018% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - £411 -
25th Percentile - £428 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £538 £313
Median % change year-on-year - +72.00% -47.92%
75th Percentile - £601 £319
90th Percentile - £603 £344
UK median daily rate - £600 £313
% change year-on-year - +92.00% -40.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Information Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England +27 1 - -
North West +26 1 - -
Information Security Engineer
UK

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Information 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 UK excluding London region featuring Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Antivirus Management
1 1 (100.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft