Security Engineer Contracts in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in London is £550, 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 233 219 202
Rank change year-on-year -14 -17 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 120 176 349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.99% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.06% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 123 264
10th Percentile £406 £406 £450
25th Percentile £430 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £623
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -5.62% +8.26%
75th Percentile £700 £681 £700
90th Percentile £763 £774 £785
England median daily rate £525 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.31 £55.90 £83.31
% change year-on-year +31.14% -32.90% +58.70%

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%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Central London -1 9 £524 -0.14% 27
West London - 4 £488 - 8
North London - 1 £413 - 2
East London - 1 £665 - 3
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (42.50%) Azure
2 46 (38.33%) Firewall
3 39 (32.50%) Network Security
4 36 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 33 (27.50%) Microsoft
6 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
7 27 (22.50%) AWS
7 27 (22.50%) SIEM
8 25 (20.83%) Information Security
9 24 (20.00%) Cisco
9 24 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (19.17%) Finance
10 23 (19.17%) Security Operations
11 20 (16.67%) NIST
11 20 (16.67%) Degree
12 19 (15.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 19 (15.83%) Python
12 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (15.83%) Incident Response
12 19 (15.83%) Security Posture
13 18 (15.00%) Palo Alto
14 17 (14.17%) CISSP
14 17 (14.17%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
15 16 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
15 16 (13.33%) Linux
16 15 (12.50%) GCP
16 15 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
17 14 (11.67%) SOAR
18 13 (10.83%) Zero Trust

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.83%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.50%) Azure
2 27 (22.50%) AWS
3 15 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.83%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.33%) GitHub
7 4 (3.33%) Serverless
8 3 (2.50%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 46 (38.33%) Firewall
2 39 (32.50%) Network Security
3 10 (8.33%) VPN
4 9 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (7.50%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (7.50%) DHCP
4 9 (7.50%) DNS
5 8 (6.67%) BGP
5 8 (6.67%) WAN
6 7 (5.83%) OSPF
6 7 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (5.00%) EIGRP
7 6 (5.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (4.17%) IPsec
8 5 (4.17%) MPLS
8 5 (4.17%) RIP
8 5 (4.17%) Spanning Tree
8 5 (4.17%) SSL
8 5 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.67%) GitLab
1 2 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.17%) Finance
3 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.17%) Banking
4 5 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) French Language
7 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.83%) Military
7 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.67%) Node.js
2 2 (1.67%) OpenID
2 2 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (0.83%) .NET
3 1 (0.83%) Kafka
3 1 (0.83%) SAML
3 1 (0.83%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Security Posture
2 9 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.67%) PKI
6 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Linux
2 12 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (4.17%) CatOS
4 4 (3.33%) Unix
4 4 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) SUSE
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 27 (22.50%) SIEM
3 25 (20.83%) Information Security
4 24 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (19.17%) Security Operations
6 19 (15.83%) Incident Response
6 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 14 (11.67%) SOAR
9 13 (10.83%) Risk Management
9 13 (10.83%) Zero Trust
10 12 (10.00%) ITIL
10 12 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
10 12 (10.00%) Security Management
11 11 (9.17%) Analytics
11 11 (9.17%) Migration
12 10 (8.33%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
13 9 (7.50%) Change Management
13 9 (7.50%) Hyperautomation
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.83%) Python
2 10 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.33%) Bash
3 4 (3.33%) Java
4 2 (1.67%) C++
4 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.67%) Perl
4 2 (1.67%) Rust
5 1 (0.83%) Bicep
5 1 (0.83%) Go
5 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.83%) SQL
5 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Degree
2 17 (14.17%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (14.17%) CISSP
3 13 (10.83%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.33%) CCNP
4 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 6 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.17%) CCSE
8 4 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (3.33%) CCSP
8 4 (3.33%) CRISC
8 4 (3.33%) GCIH
9 3 (2.50%) CCNA
9 3 (2.50%) CEH
9 3 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.67%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) NIST
2 19 (15.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 5 (4.17%) SLA
4 4 (3.33%) GDPR
5 2 (1.67%) GRC
5 2 (1.67%) NCSC
5 2 (1.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.50%) Docker
4 2 (1.67%) Firmware
4 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.83%) SCCM
3 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.00%) Terraform
4 3 (2.50%) CASB
4 3 (2.50%) WSUS
4 3 (2.50%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.67%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.67%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.83%) Ansible
6 1 (0.83%) Argo
6 1 (0.83%) Cilium
6 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) Puppet
6 1 (0.83%) QRadar
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.00%) Cisco
3 18 (15.00%) Palo Alto
4 13 (10.83%) CheckPoint
4 13 (10.83%) Google
5 10 (8.33%) Juniper
6 7 (5.83%) SolarWinds
7 6 (5.00%) F5
7 6 (5.00%) Qualys
7 6 (5.00%) Splunk
7 6 (5.00%) Zscaler
8 5 (4.17%) Fortinet
9 4 (3.33%) Rapid7
10 3 (2.50%) Aruba
10 3 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.50%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.50%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.50%) Sophos
11 2 (1.67%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (1.67%) Tenable