Security Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Security Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 30 46
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 0
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 3 33 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.60% 6.12% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 6.86% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 4
10th Percentile £495 £288 £477
25th Percentile £497 £406 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% - +117.31%
75th Percentile £584 £566 £630
90th Percentile £616 £623 -
North West median daily rate £519 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% -2.10% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 469 481 503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 89.24% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 331 284
10th Percentile £276 £263 £190
25th Percentile £383 £394 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £631 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Cheshire

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Cheshire

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in Cheshire

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Chester -1 1 £513 +51.85% 2
Warrington - 1 £500 - 1
Security Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Cheshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) UEBA
2 1 (33.33%) Insider Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) DMZ
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Insider Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Line Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) UEBA
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Proofpoint
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler