Security Engineer Contracts in Central London

Security Engineer
London > Central London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Central London is £524, 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 120 119 107
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 9 14 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.57% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.60% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 47
10th Percentile £383 £406 £519
25th Percentile £423 £455 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -17.65% +15.91%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £738
90th Percentile £675 £638 £819
London median daily rate £550 £588 £623
% change year-on-year -6.38% -5.62% +8.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Central London

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Central London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Central London

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in Central London

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +1 7 £562 +7.00% 18
West End of London - 1 £300 - 4
Security Engineer
London

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

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 Central London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Network Security
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
4 2 (22.22%) CCNP
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
4 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
4 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 2 (22.22%) Forcepoint
4 2 (22.22%) NIST
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Network Security
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) French Language
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Application Security
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCSA
3 1 (11.11%) CCSE
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
2 2 (22.22%) Forcepoint
2 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
3 1 (11.11%) Arista
3 1 (11.11%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) ForeScout
3 1 (11.11%) ForgeRock
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Trend Micro