Principal Security Engineer Contracts in London

Principal Security Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Security Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 395 476
Rank change year-on-year +48 +81 -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Security Engineer 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.006% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
England median daily rate £525 £700 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

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 11,669 16,334 24,595
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.45% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,989 11,808 17,870
10th Percentile £344 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 318 283
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.07 £22.69
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.05 £62.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.32 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

Principal Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Security Engineer in London

Principal Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Security Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) ZABBIX
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) IPsec
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (75.00%) TACACS
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) SUSE
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) VMware

Principal 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) IPsec
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) TACACS
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) SUSE
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware