Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Docklands, London

Security Engineer
East London > Docklands, London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Docklands, London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 September 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
24 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Docklands, London 20.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median daily rate £595 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Docklands, London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Docklands, 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 Docklands, London with a recognized job title 8 7 21
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.00% 77.78% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 20
10th Percentile £406 £538 £176
25th Percentile £503 £600 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +1.92% +44.44%
75th Percentile £841 £841 £750
90th Percentile £925 £875 £925
East London median daily rate £506 £475 £545
% change year-on-year +6.58% -12.84% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
East London median hourly rate £33.25 £21.80 £18.93
% change year-on-year +52.55% +15.13% -41.93%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Docklands, London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Docklands, London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Docklands, London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Docklands, London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Docklands, London

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Docklands, London

For the 6 months to 24 September 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 Docklands, London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management

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

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto