IT Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

IT Security Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Security Engineer daily rate in England is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 517 605
Rank change year-on-year +3 +88 +176
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 8 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.049% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.053% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 4
10th Percentile £444 £474 -
25th Percentile £514 £510 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £850 £775 £547
90th Percentile - - £564
UK median daily rate £638 £540 £475
% change year-on-year +18.06% +13.68% -2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 25,202 30,334 40,605
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.05% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,241 19,130 28,481
10th Percentile £281 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,343 1,529 1,333
10th Percentile £13.57 £14.55 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Security Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Security Engineer job vacancies 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 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Security Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Security Engineer job vacancies 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 9 September 2025. 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 +14 6 £750 +38.25% 8
Midlands - 1 £400 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 2
East of England - 1 £475 - 2
IT Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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 England region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Information Security
2 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 5 (62.50%) SIEM
2 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
2 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 4 (50.00%) IT Governance
3 4 (50.00%) Due Diligence
3 4 (50.00%) NIST
3 4 (50.00%) SOAR
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 4 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 4 (50.00%) SLA
3 4 (50.00%) GCIH
3 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) CCSP

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (25.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Loss Prevention
1 5 (62.50%) Information Security
1 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
1 5 (62.50%) SIEM
1 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 4 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) SOAR
2 4 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Ruby
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (50.00%) CCSP
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) GCIH
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (50.00%) NIST
2 4 (50.00%) SLA
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Sophos
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) VMware