Senior Information Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Senior Information Security Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Information Security Engineer daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Information Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.044% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £600 £400 -
% change year-on-year +50.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,148 1,840 2,450
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 92.79% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,472 1,197 1,749
10th Percentile £350 £363 £338
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £767 £763 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 32
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.18 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.41
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +13.75% -24.56%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £34.75
90th Percentile £59.48 £56.25 £50.10
London median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +25.00% -20.00%

Senior Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Senior Information Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Senior Information Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Information Security Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Information Security Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Senior Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 26 March 2026, Senior Information 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 Central London region featuring Senior Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management

Senior Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST