Security Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Security Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £397, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 69 90
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 8 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.49% 0.47% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 0.50% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £324 £530 £761
25th Percentile £382 £538 £764
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £600 £775
Median % change year-on-year -33.79% -22.57% +40.88%
75th Percentile £489 £682 £781
90th Percentile £575 £700 £782
South West median daily rate £488 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £88.00
South West median hourly rate - £83.41 £83.31
% change year-on-year - +0.12% +48.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 512 1,004 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.99% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 541 805
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 142
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £30.97
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +55.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £86.23
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) Wireless
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
1 4 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 4 (50.00%) Ruckus Wireless
1 4 (50.00%) Aruba
1 4 (50.00%) F5
1 4 (50.00%) Zscaler
1 4 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
1 4 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) Security Management
1 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Red Team
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
2 1 (12.50%) SIEM
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CCSA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Aruba
1 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
1 4 (50.00%) F5
1 4 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 4 (50.00%) Ruckus Wireless
1 4 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Qualys
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
76 Security Engineer jobs in the South West