Senior Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Security Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 121 122
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile - - £781
90th Percentile - - £785
Central London median daily rate £520 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,150 1,682 1,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 93.76% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,120 1,267
10th Percentile £363 £325 £366
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £785
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 14
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.87
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.88
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.91% -25.00%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £89.06
90th Percentile £49.64 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £28.33 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -16.69% -2.86%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 September 2026, Senior 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 City of London region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) n8n
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SLA

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) n8n
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SOAR
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes