IT Security Engineer Contracts in London

IT Security Engineer
England > London

The median IT Security Engineer daily rate in London is £850, 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 348 380 490
Rank change year-on-year +32 +110 +104
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 5 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.062% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.066% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 3
10th Percentile £710 £385 £550
25th Percentile £800 £588 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% +63.52%
75th Percentile - £775 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £850 £750 £625
% change year-on-year +13.33% +20.00% +57.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in London

IT Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Security Engineer in London

IT Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Engineer in London

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (80.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (80.00%) SOAR
2 4 (80.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Due Diligence
2 4 (80.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (80.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) GCIH
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) IT Governance
2 4 (80.00%) SLA
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) CCSP
2 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (80.00%) Due Diligence
2 4 (80.00%) IT Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (80.00%) SOAR
2 4 (80.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (80.00%) CCSP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) GCIH
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
2 4 (80.00%) SLA
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Exabeam
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk