IT Security Engineer Contracts in England

IT Security Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Security Engineer daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 653 772
Rank change year-on-year +120 +119 -166
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 17 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.024% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.025% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 8
10th Percentile £398 £496 £382
25th Percentile £480 £550 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £625 £436
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +43.27% -16.90%
75th Percentile £775 £650 £500
90th Percentile - - £519
UK median daily rate £750 £606 £470
% change year-on-year +23.71% +28.99% -10.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London +111 13 £750 +15.38% 4
South West - 2 - - 2
North of England +30 1 - - 2
North West +17 1 - - 2
South East +16 1 £480 -12.73% 2
IT Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 England region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (64.71%) SIEM
2 9 (52.94%) Finance
3 8 (47.06%) Banking
4 7 (41.18%) ArcSight
5 5 (29.41%) Windows
6 4 (23.53%) AWS
6 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (17.65%) Azure
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
7 3 (17.65%) Firewall
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (17.65%) Static Application Security Testing
7 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
8 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
8 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) SDLC
8 2 (11.76%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (11.76%) Terraform
8 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) C#
8 2 (11.76%) Agile
8 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
8 2 (11.76%) Information Security
8 2 (11.76%) Service Management
8 2 (11.76%) Linux

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) IPsec
3 1 (5.88%) IPv6
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) WLAN
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Digital Signage
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) SIEM
2 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (17.65%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
4 2 (11.76%) SDLC
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (5.88%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.88%) ITSM
5 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.88%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) C#
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) COBIT
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) ArcSight
2 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) Netskope