Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Security Engineer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Farnborough is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 3 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 2.03% 11.21% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 12.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £526 -
25th Percentile £531 £547 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% - -
75th Percentile £544 £697 -
90th Percentile - £729 -
Hampshire median daily rate £463 £575 -
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 133 98 104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 91.59% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 62 69
10th Percentile £320 £343 £300
25th Percentile £408 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% -1.28% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £683
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.09% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 12
10th Percentile £24.95 £69.00 £21.01
25th Percentile £34.63 £74.06 £21.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £45.56 - £63.44
90th Percentile £55.58 £77.25 £79.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £24.21 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -61.27% +26.26% +10.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough

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

For the 6 months to 12 December 2025, 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 Farnborough region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat