Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 223 218
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 238 130 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.06% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.14% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 77 128
10th Percentile £413 £406 £400
25th Percentile £475 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -3.61%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £675
90th Percentile £706 £778 £749
England median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.83% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £65.00 - -
25th Percentile £70.63 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.40 £74.21 £48.40
% change year-on-year +15.09% +53.32% -41.97%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 17,284 11,434 16,529
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 93.53% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,413 7,725 11,910
10th Percentile £356 £349 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 163 327
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.07% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £46.68
90th Percentile £76.75 £63.65 £67.40
England median hourly rate £45.59 £29.80 £38.50
% change year-on-year +52.97% -22.60% -14.44%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
Central London -9 21 £525 -8.70% 26
South London - 8 £500 - 8
West London -19 5 £500 +2.56% 5
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, 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 London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 97 (40.76%) Azure
2 84 (35.29%) Cloud Security
3 67 (28.15%) AWS
4 64 (26.89%) Microsoft
5 59 (24.79%) Network Security
6 54 (22.69%) Cybersecurity
7 53 (22.27%) CI/CD
8 52 (21.85%) Incident Response
9 50 (21.01%) Python
10 41 (17.23%) Firewall
10 41 (17.23%) PowerShell
11 40 (16.81%) SIEM
12 39 (16.39%) Data Loss Prevention
13 37 (15.55%) Microsoft Purview
14 36 (15.13%) Security Architecture
15 32 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (13.45%) Palo Alto
16 31 (13.03%) GCP
17 30 (12.61%) Security Operations
17 30 (12.61%) Vulnerability Management
18 28 (11.76%) Bash
18 28 (11.76%) Zero Trust
19 27 (11.34%) Terraform
19 27 (11.34%) Threat Modelling
20 26 (10.92%) CISSP
20 26 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
21 25 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
22 24 (10.08%) Application Security
22 24 (10.08%) CrowdStrike
22 24 (10.08%) DevSecOps

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (3.36%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Apache
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 97 (40.76%) Azure
2 67 (28.15%) AWS
3 37 (15.55%) Microsoft Purview
4 32 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (13.03%) GCP
6 21 (8.82%) Entra ID
7 16 (6.72%) Mimecast
8 13 (5.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.04%) GitHub
10 10 (4.20%) SaaS
11 8 (3.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.52%) AWS CloudTrail
14 5 (2.10%) Datadog
14 5 (2.10%) PaaS
14 5 (2.10%) Serverless
15 4 (1.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.79%) Network Security
2 41 (17.23%) Firewall
3 20 (8.40%) VPN
4 19 (7.98%) TCP/IP
5 15 (6.30%) SSL
6 13 (5.46%) DNS
6 13 (5.46%) SD-WAN
6 13 (5.46%) WAN
7 11 (4.62%) HTTP
8 7 (2.94%) VLAN
9 6 (2.52%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (2.52%) Internet
10 5 (2.10%) NGFW
11 4 (1.68%) BGP
11 4 (1.68%) DHCP
11 4 (1.68%) TACACS
11 4 (1.68%) Wireless
12 3 (1.26%) DMZ
12 3 (1.26%) MPLS
12 3 (1.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.42%) Db2
3 1 (0.42%) Metadata
3 1 (0.42%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.42%) OLAP
3 1 (0.42%) OLTP
3 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.42%) Power BI
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Git
1 7 (2.94%) JIRA
2 3 (1.26%) GitLab
2 3 (1.26%) Snyk
3 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
General
1 52 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.59%) Finance
3 17 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.62%) Banking
6 8 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.68%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.68%) Legal
8 4 (1.68%) Local Government
9 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Law
10 1 (0.42%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (1.68%) .NET
2 4 (1.68%) SAML
3 3 (1.26%) Kafka
3 3 (1.26%) REST
4 2 (0.84%) NestJS
4 2 (0.84%) OAuth
4 2 (0.84%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.84%) Web Services
4 2 (0.84%) YAML
5 1 (0.42%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.42%) CSS
5 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.42%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) JSON
5 1 (0.42%) JWT
5 1 (0.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.50%) Security Posture
2 21 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.20%) AI Agents
3 10 (4.20%) Cloud Security Posture
4 9 (3.78%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.26%) BYOD
8 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.84%) STIX
9 2 (0.84%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.88%) Windows
2 13 (5.46%) Linux
3 3 (1.26%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (35.29%) Cloud Security
2 54 (22.69%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (22.27%) CI/CD
4 52 (21.85%) Incident Response
5 40 (16.81%) SIEM
6 39 (16.39%) Data Loss Prevention
7 36 (15.13%) Security Architecture
8 30 (12.61%) Security Operations
8 30 (12.61%) Vulnerability Management
9 28 (11.76%) Zero Trust
10 27 (11.34%) Threat Modelling
11 26 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.08%) Application Security
13 24 (10.08%) DevSecOps
13 24 (10.08%) Information Security
13 24 (10.08%) Validation
14 23 (9.66%) AI
14 23 (9.66%) Data Protection
14 23 (9.66%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.01%) Python
2 41 (17.23%) PowerShell
3 28 (11.76%) Bash
4 12 (5.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (3.36%) Java
6 3 (1.26%) SQL
7 2 (0.84%) C#
7 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.84%) Perl
7 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.42%) C
8 1 (0.42%) Go
8 1 (0.42%) PHP
8 1 (0.42%) Ruby
8 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 26 (10.92%) CISSP
2 23 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.14%) Degree
5 13 (5.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 12 (5.04%) CISM
7 9 (3.78%) CCNP
8 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.94%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.10%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.10%) CCSP
11 5 (2.10%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (2.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.26%) CISA
13 3 (1.26%) GCIA
13 3 (1.26%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.08%) NIST
2 20 (8.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.14%) GDPR
4 16 (6.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (4.62%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.94%) SLA
8 4 (1.68%) GRC
8 4 (1.68%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.84%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.42%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 8 (3.36%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.36%) Docker
2 7 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.84%) Squid
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) vSphere
5 1 (0.42%) Firmware
5 1 (0.42%) RACF
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (11.34%) Terraform
2 15 (6.30%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.94%) Ansible
5 5 (2.10%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.68%) AirWatch
7 3 (1.26%) Grafana
8 2 (0.84%) QRadar
9 1 (0.42%) CASB
9 1 (0.42%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.42%) Nessus
9 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.42%) SCCM
9 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 64 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.45%) Palo Alto
3 24 (10.08%) CrowdStrike
4 23 (9.66%) Zscaler
5 21 (8.82%) Cisco
6 19 (7.98%) Netskope
7 17 (7.14%) CyberArk
8 16 (6.72%) Fortinet
9 11 (4.62%) Google
10 10 (4.20%) Qualys
11 9 (3.78%) CheckPoint
11 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.94%) Blue Coat
12 7 (2.94%) F5
12 7 (2.94%) Tenable
13 6 (2.52%) Rapid7
14 5 (2.10%) Meraki
14 5 (2.10%) Splunk
15 4 (1.68%) Citrix
15 4 (1.68%) Foundry