Security Engineer Contracts in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 270 231
Rank change year-on-year +7 -39 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 234 309 589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 0.83% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.90% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 216 423
10th Percentile £379 £413 £421
25th Percentile £407 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £735 £768 £772
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 18
10th Percentile £65.65 - £57.38
25th Percentile £66.63 £30.70 £70.00
Median hourly rate £73.31 £55.90 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.14% -32.90% +58.70%
75th Percentile £80.89 £80.85 £83.40
90th Percentile £82.40 £82.39 £88.38
UK median hourly rate £73.31 £55.90 £83.31
% change year-on-year +31.14% -32.90% +66.62%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Engineer in England

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 Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -14 120 £550 -6.38% 221
North of England +40 39 £525 -6.67% 89
South East +29 32 £450 - 134
North West +27 23 £525 - 54
Midlands +19 14 £513 -21.15% 81
West Midlands +12 14 £513 -21.15% 50
South West +30 13 £488 -18.75% 65
Yorkshire +11 8 £481 -22.63% 24
North East - 8 £525 - 11
East of England +31 7 £330 -58.75% 52
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (35.90%) Azure
2 80 (34.19%) Firewall
3 65 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
4 63 (26.92%) Microsoft
5 61 (26.07%) Network Security
5 61 (26.07%) Social Skills
6 58 (24.79%) SIEM
7 57 (24.36%) Cloud Security
8 46 (19.66%) Information Security
9 45 (19.23%) Cisco
10 43 (18.38%) AWS
10 43 (18.38%) Security Operations
11 42 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (15.38%) CISSP
12 36 (15.38%) Python
12 36 (15.38%) Finance
13 33 (14.10%) Incident Response
14 29 (12.39%) Linux
14 29 (12.39%) Degree
14 29 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
14 29 (12.39%) Vulnerability Management
15 28 (11.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 27 (11.54%) Security Cleared
16 27 (11.54%) Security Posture
17 26 (11.11%) Windows
17 26 (11.11%) CheckPoint
17 26 (11.11%) Palo Alto
18 25 (10.68%) NIST
18 25 (10.68%) Cisco Certification
19 24 (10.26%) PowerShell

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 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.71%) Confluence
2 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (35.90%) Azure
2 43 (18.38%) AWS
3 21 (8.97%) GCP
4 20 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (4.70%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.56%) GitHub
8 5 (2.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 5 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.71%) Serverless
10 3 (1.28%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.28%) SaaS
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.85%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 80 (34.19%) Firewall
2 61 (26.07%) Network Security
3 16 (6.84%) Cisco ASA
3 16 (6.84%) VPN
4 14 (5.98%) DNS
4 14 (5.98%) Wireless
5 12 (5.13%) WAN
6 11 (4.70%) BGP
6 11 (4.70%) DHCP
7 9 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (3.85%) OSPF
8 8 (3.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (3.42%) MPLS
8 8 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.99%) SD-WAN
9 7 (2.99%) SSL
10 6 (2.56%) EIGRP
10 6 (2.56%) IPsec
10 6 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.43%) DB2
2 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.43%) Power BI
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.71%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 61 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.38%) Finance
3 29 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.99%) Banking
6 7 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Automotive
9 4 (1.71%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Aviation
11 2 (0.85%) Police
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
11 2 (0.85%) Swedish Language
12 1 (0.43%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.56%) Web Services
2 5 (2.14%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.28%) REST
4 2 (0.85%) Node.js
4 2 (0.85%) OpenID
5 1 (0.43%) .NET
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Axis
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) JSON
5 1 (0.43%) Kafka
5 1 (0.43%) SAML
5 1 (0.43%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.54%) Security Posture
2 23 (9.83%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.98%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.14%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.28%) PKI
9 3 (1.28%) SCADA
10 2 (0.85%) CCTV
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Robotics
11 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.39%) Linux
2 26 (11.11%) Windows
3 8 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.14%) CatOS
6 4 (1.71%) Unix
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.43%) SUSE
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (24.79%) SIEM
3 57 (24.36%) Cloud Security
4 46 (19.66%) Information Security
5 43 (18.38%) Security Operations
6 42 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (14.10%) Incident Response
8 29 (12.39%) Vulnerability Management
9 23 (9.83%) Security Management
9 23 (9.83%) Zero Trust
10 21 (8.97%) SOAR
10 21 (8.97%) Threat Detection
11 18 (7.69%) Change Management
11 18 (7.69%) Migration
11 18 (7.69%) Risk Management
12 17 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (6.84%) ITIL
13 16 (6.84%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (6.84%) Security Architecture
14 15 (6.41%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.38%) Python
2 24 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.56%) Java
4 5 (2.14%) Bash
4 5 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.28%) SQL
6 2 (0.85%) C++
6 2 (0.85%) Perl
6 2 (0.85%) Ruby
6 2 (0.85%) Rust
7 1 (0.43%) Bicep
7 1 (0.43%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) Go
7 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (15.38%) CISSP
2 29 (12.39%) Degree
3 27 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 25 (10.68%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (8.12%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.56%) CISM
7 12 (5.13%) CCNP
8 10 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.99%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.56%) CCNA
10 6 (2.56%) CCSE
10 6 (2.56%) CEH
11 5 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.14%) CCSP
12 4 (1.71%) CCIE
12 4 (1.71%) CCSA
12 4 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.71%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (10.68%) NIST
3 7 (2.99%) GDPR
4 6 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 5 (2.14%) NCSC
5 5 (2.14%) SLA
6 3 (1.28%) AUTOSAR
6 3 (1.28%) GRC
6 3 (1.28%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) QA
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (6.41%) Active Directory
1 15 (6.41%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (2.99%) Docker
3 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.27%) SCCM
4 8 (3.42%) Terraform
5 6 (2.56%) CASB
6 5 (2.14%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.71%) WSUS
8 3 (1.28%) Ansible
8 3 (1.28%) Grafana
8 3 (1.28%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.85%) Nagios
9 2 (0.85%) QRadar
9 2 (0.85%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) logstash
10 1 (0.43%) Nessus
10 1 (0.43%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 63 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 45 (19.23%) Cisco
3 26 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 26 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 16 (6.84%) Splunk
5 15 (6.41%) Google
6 14 (5.98%) F5
7 12 (5.13%) Fortinet
7 12 (5.13%) Zscaler
8 11 (4.70%) Juniper
9 10 (4.27%) SolarWinds
9 10 (4.27%) VMware
10 9 (3.85%) Qualys
11 8 (3.42%) Aruba
12 7 (2.99%) Infoblox
12 7 (2.99%) Rapid7
13 6 (2.56%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (2.56%) HP
13 6 (2.56%) Ruckus Wireless
13 6 (2.56%) Tenable