Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 65 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.65% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.44% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £501 £448 £320
25th Percentile £501 £468 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +50.00% -46.15%
75th Percentile £511 £582 £413
90th Percentile £514 £601 £450
West Midlands median daily rate £390 £575 £725
% change year-on-year -32.17% -20.69% +39.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 554 685 793
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.64% 95.80% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 441 534
10th Percentile £185 £200 £261
25th Percentile £361 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £619 £600
90th Percentile £654 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 14 25
10th Percentile - £15.45 £13.87
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £34.56 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.26% +68.60% +13.89%
75th Percentile £26.51 £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.29 £56.65 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £22.05 £22.65
% change year-on-year +14.08% -2.65% +25.81%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) DSL
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Xamarin
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DSL
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Xamarin