IT Security Engineer Contracts in the City of London

IT Security Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median IT Security Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.058% - 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% - 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
75th Percentile £638 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 - £550

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,617 2,058 3,350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 95.06% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 1,446 2,281
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £463 £446 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -8.21% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -34.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £28.61 £26.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.35% -24.56% -9.09%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in the City of London

IT Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Security Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IT Security Engineer in the City of London

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, IT 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 City of London region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable