Security Engineer Contracts in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 225 357
Rank change year-on-year -33 +132 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 321 572 517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.88% 1.19% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.26% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 415 361
10th Percentile £413 £411 £325
25th Percentile £425 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £652 £684 £675
90th Percentile £752 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 9
10th Percentile - £60.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £30.70 £73.33 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.90 £83.36 £54.96
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +51.68% +0.02%
75th Percentile £80.85 £83.40 £79.04
90th Percentile £82.39 £88.38 £81.85
UK median hourly rate £55.90 £83.36 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% +66.71% -11.07%

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 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 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 -25 182 £588 -5.62% 107
South East +10 56 £450 -16.28% 57
South West -1 28 £600 +14.29% 29
Midlands +1 17 £650 +18.18% 30
North of England -40 16 £550 +5.87% 35
West Midlands 0 15 £650 +18.18% 18
North West -40 10 £538 +10.60% 24
East of England +7 5 £600 +26.32% 31
Yorkshire +5 5 £622 +8.17% 6
East Midlands +9 2 £550 +6.08% 12
North East +13 1 £475 -43.89% 5
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 95 (29.60%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (28.66%) Azure
3 88 (27.41%) Security Cleared
4 77 (23.99%) SIEM
5 75 (23.36%) Firewall
6 73 (22.74%) Python
7 71 (22.12%) Network Security
8 66 (20.56%) Microsoft
9 62 (19.31%) Finance
9 62 (19.31%) AWS
10 53 (16.51%) Terraform
11 52 (16.20%) PowerShell
11 52 (16.20%) Cloud Security
12 48 (14.95%) DV Cleared
12 48 (14.95%) Windows
13 44 (13.71%) CISSP
14 43 (13.40%) Social Skills
15 40 (12.46%) SC Cleared
16 38 (11.84%) CI/CD
17 37 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (11.53%) Information Security
18 36 (11.21%) Vulnerability Management
19 34 (10.59%) Palo Alto
20 32 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
20 32 (9.97%) Active Directory
21 31 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 31 (9.66%) Security Posture
22 30 (9.35%) Incident Response
22 30 (9.35%) Degree
23 29 (9.03%) PKI

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 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 92 (28.66%) Azure
2 62 (19.31%) AWS
3 24 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (7.17%) Entra ID
5 21 (6.54%) GCP
6 19 (5.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (3.12%) GitHub
8 9 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.18%) AWS CloudTrail
10 7 (2.18%) CloudFront
10 7 (2.18%) Serverless
11 6 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.56%) Mimecast
12 5 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.25%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 75 (23.36%) Firewall
2 71 (22.12%) Network Security
3 28 (8.72%) DNS
4 23 (7.17%) VPN
5 9 (2.80%) BGP
5 9 (2.80%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.49%) WAN
7 7 (2.18%) DHCP
7 7 (2.18%) LAN
8 6 (1.87%) HTTP
8 6 (1.87%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (1.87%) OSPF
8 6 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.56%) DMZ
10 4 (1.25%) DKIM
10 4 (1.25%) DMARC
10 4 (1.25%) Internet
10 4 (1.25%) IPsec
10 4 (1.25%) NGFW
11 3 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.12%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.49%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.18%) Big Data
4 4 (1.25%) Metadata
4 4 (1.25%) Power BI
5 3 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.31%) MySQL
7 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.12%) JIRA
2 8 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.18%) Burp Suite
4 5 (1.56%) Git
4 5 (1.56%) GitLab
5 4 (1.25%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.93%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.62%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.62%) Snyk
7 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.31%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 62 (19.31%) Finance
2 43 (13.40%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.72%) Banking
5 22 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.49%) Retail
8 6 (1.87%) Automotive
8 6 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.25%) Marketing
9 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.93%) Electronics
10 3 (0.93%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Advertising
11 2 (0.62%) Military
11 2 (0.62%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.31%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.49%) OAuth
1 8 (2.49%) SAML
2 7 (2.18%) YAML
3 6 (1.87%) JSON
3 6 (1.87%) OAuth2
4 5 (1.56%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.56%) Web Services
4 5 (1.56%) XML
5 4 (1.25%) React
5 4 (1.25%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.25%) Vue
6 3 (0.93%) .NET
6 3 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.93%) Kafka
6 3 (0.93%) RESTful
7 2 (0.62%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.62%) REST
7 2 (0.62%) SOAP
8 1 (0.31%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.66%) Security Posture
2 29 (9.03%) PKI
3 21 (6.54%) Data Centre
4 18 (5.61%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.05%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (3.43%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.18%) Cyberattack
10 7 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.87%) Cyber Defence
11 6 (1.87%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.95%) Windows
2 20 (6.23%) Linux
3 16 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.49%) Unix
5 7 (2.18%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.93%) Android
7 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.62%) zOS
9 1 (0.31%) AIX
9 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (29.60%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (23.99%) SIEM
3 52 (16.20%) Cloud Security
4 38 (11.84%) CI/CD
5 37 (11.53%) Information Security
5 37 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (11.21%) Vulnerability Management
7 30 (9.35%) Incident Response
8 29 (9.03%) Application Security
9 28 (8.72%) Security Operations
10 27 (8.41%) DevOps
11 25 (7.79%) DevSecOps
12 24 (7.48%) Identity Access Management
13 21 (6.54%) Penetration Testing
13 21 (6.54%) Security Architecture
14 20 (6.23%) Agile
15 19 (5.92%) Analytics
16 18 (5.61%) Computer Science
16 18 (5.61%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (5.30%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (22.74%) Python
2 52 (16.20%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.74%) Bash
4 10 (3.12%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.80%) SQL
6 5 (1.56%) Go
7 4 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.25%) Perl
8 3 (0.93%) C#
9 2 (0.62%) Java
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) C++
10 1 (0.31%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 88 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.95%) DV Cleared
3 44 (13.71%) CISSP
4 40 (12.46%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.35%) Degree
6 20 (6.23%) CISM
7 16 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.74%) CCNP
10 10 (3.12%) AWS Certification
10 10 (3.12%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (2.49%) CEH
12 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.56%) CISA
12 5 (1.56%) GIAC
13 4 (1.25%) CCIE
14 3 (0.93%) CCNA
14 3 (0.93%) CCSP
14 3 (0.93%) GSEC
14 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (8.10%) NIST
3 10 (3.12%) NCSC
3 10 (3.12%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.87%) COBIT
4 6 (1.87%) GDPR
5 5 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.56%) QA
6 4 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.93%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.93%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.62%) ISA99
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.62%) RMADS
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (9.97%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.74%) Docker
2 12 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.74%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.93%) vSphere
5 2 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.62%) XenApp
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (16.51%) Terraform
2 29 (9.03%) Ansible
3 11 (3.43%) SCCM
4 9 (2.80%) Kubernetes
5 7 (2.18%) ArcSight ESM
6 6 (1.87%) CASB
7 5 (1.56%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.56%) Nessus
7 5 (1.56%) QRadar
7 5 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.25%) Functional Safety
8 4 (1.25%) Puppet
8 4 (1.25%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.93%) Grafana
9 3 (0.93%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) logstash
9 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 66 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.59%) Palo Alto
3 29 (9.03%) Splunk
4 25 (7.79%) VMware
5 22 (6.85%) Cisco
6 20 (6.23%) ArcSight
7 17 (5.30%) Qualys
8 14 (4.36%) F5
9 13 (4.05%) Fortinet
10 11 (3.43%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (2.80%) CheckPoint
11 9 (2.80%) Google
12 7 (2.18%) CA
12 7 (2.18%) Dell
12 7 (2.18%) Rapid7
12 7 (2.18%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.87%) LogRhythm
14 5 (1.56%) Citrix
14 5 (1.56%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.25%) Red Hat