Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Security Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.80% 1.14% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £330 £625
% change year-on-year +81.82% -47.20% -1.96%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 352 218 404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 82.89% 84.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 123 164
10th Percentile £200 £308 £235
25th Percentile £335 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £593 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £495 £454
% change year-on-year -4.04% +9.15% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 30 171
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.98 £14.00
25th Percentile £13.80 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +31.66% +5.16%
75th Percentile £27.50 £22.81 £25.00
90th Percentile £39.50 £58.25 £61.75
East of England median hourly rate £23.83 £60.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -60.29% +51.71% +13.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Cambridge -5 3 £525 - 5
Security Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 2026, 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) SOAR
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Business Enablement
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Enrichment
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) DNS

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Business Enablement
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Enrichment
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow