Senior Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 490 541
Rank change year-on-year -34 +51 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 26 23 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.084% 0.078% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.084% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 16
10th Percentile £400 £481 £636
25th Percentile £438 £571 £723
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -21.00% +32.16%
75th Percentile £631 £641 £775
90th Percentile £703 £775 £783
UK median daily rate £550 £593 £748
% change year-on-year -7.17% -20.74% +31.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £43.75 -

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 28,356 27,251 35,230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,121 16,963 24,204
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,744 892 1,356
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.64 £15.29
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.35 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 +4 18 £600 -5.88% 18
North West -19 3 £400 -32.49% 17
North of England -38 3 £400 -32.49% 33
South East +3 2 £379 -36.03% 40
East of England - 1 £475 - 24
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Senior Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Security
1 10 (38.46%) SIEM
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (30.77%) Firewall
3 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
3 8 (30.77%) SOAR
4 7 (26.92%) NIST
5 6 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (23.08%) GDPR
5 6 (23.08%) Python
6 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
6 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
6 5 (19.23%) HIPAA
6 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
6 5 (19.23%) Network Security
6 5 (19.23%) Threat Detection
7 4 (15.38%) Agile
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (15.38%) Degree
7 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (15.38%) REST
7 4 (15.38%) Security Operations
8 3 (11.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.85%) Datadog
6 1 (3.85%) Firebase
6 1 (3.85%) Google App Engine
6 1 (3.85%) Pulumi
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 5 (19.23%) Network Security
3 3 (11.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (7.69%) Modbus
5 1 (3.85%) DNS
5 1 (3.85%) DNSSEC
5 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.85%) SSL
5 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) NestJS
3 2 (7.69%) Jinja
3 2 (7.69%) YAML
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.85%) Django
4 1 (3.85%) Flutter
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (7.69%) Insider Threat
1 2 (7.69%) Life Science
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.69%) Operational Technology
1 2 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (7.69%) SCADA
1 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
1 2 (7.69%) STIX
1 2 (7.69%) YARA
2 1 (3.85%) CCTV
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Security
1 10 (38.46%) SIEM
2 8 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
2 8 (30.77%) SOAR
3 6 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
4 5 (19.23%) Threat Detection
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (15.38%) Security Operations
6 3 (11.54%) API Development
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Microservices
6 3 (11.54%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (11.54%) Scrum
6 3 (11.54%) Use Case
7 2 (7.69%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (11.54%) CISSP
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.69%) CCNA
4 2 (7.69%) CCNP
4 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.69%) GCFA
4 2 (7.69%) GCIA
4 2 (7.69%) GCIH
5 1 (3.85%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) NIST
2 6 (23.08%) GDPR
3 5 (19.23%) HIPAA
4 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.85%) FedRAMP
6 1 (3.85%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) QRadar
3 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Ping Identity
3 2 (7.69%) Qualys
3 2 (7.69%) Rockwell
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) VMware