Security Engineer Contracts in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in London is £594 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 203 305
Rank change year-on-year -23 +102 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 175 348 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 1.29% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.35% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 262 218
10th Percentile £407 £450 £400
25th Percentile £475 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £623 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +8.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £693
90th Percentile £774 £785 £775
England median daily rate £573 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.58% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £91.25 £22.03
Median hourly rate - £97.50 £24.89
Median % change year-on-year - +291.72% -47.60%
75th Percentile - £103.75 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.90 £83.31 £52.50
% change year-on-year -32.90% +58.70% +10.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -13 14 £525 -17.65% 15
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 48 (27.43%) Azure
1 48 (27.43%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (26.29%) Finance
3 45 (25.71%) Python
4 42 (24.00%) SIEM
5 39 (22.29%) Microsoft
6 38 (21.71%) Firewall
7 31 (17.71%) CISSP
7 31 (17.71%) AWS
8 29 (16.57%) Network Security
9 27 (15.43%) CI/CD
10 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (13.71%) Vulnerability Management
11 23 (13.14%) Security Posture
12 22 (12.57%) PowerShell
13 21 (12.00%) Windows
13 21 (12.00%) Banking
13 21 (12.00%) DevOps
13 21 (12.00%) Terraform
14 20 (11.43%) Degree
15 19 (10.86%) Security Cleared
15 19 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (10.86%) Information Security
15 19 (10.86%) Cloud Security
16 17 (9.71%) Splunk
17 16 (9.14%) ArcSight
17 16 (9.14%) DNS
17 16 (9.14%) Active Directory
17 16 (9.14%) Application Security
17 16 (9.14%) Social Skills

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 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.43%) Azure
2 31 (17.71%) AWS
3 19 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.86%) GCP
5 11 (6.29%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.00%) GitHub
8 7 (4.00%) Mimecast
9 6 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.43%) Serverless
10 5 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.29%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.29%) Slack
12 3 (1.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (1.71%) AWS KMS
12 3 (1.71%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.71%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (21.71%) Firewall
2 29 (16.57%) Network Security
3 16 (9.14%) DNS
4 12 (6.86%) VPN
5 10 (5.71%) BGP
5 10 (5.71%) LAN
5 10 (5.71%) WAN
6 7 (4.00%) DHCP
6 7 (4.00%) OSPF
7 6 (3.43%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.86%) IPsec
9 4 (2.29%) DKIM
9 4 (2.29%) DMARC
9 4 (2.29%) EIGRP
9 4 (2.29%) SSL
10 3 (1.71%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.71%) HTTP
10 3 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.57%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.29%) Big Data
3 4 (2.29%) Metadata
3 4 (2.29%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.00%) JIRA
2 6 (3.43%) Burp Suite
3 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.14%) Git
5 2 (1.14%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 46 (26.29%) Finance
2 21 (12.00%) Banking
3 16 (9.14%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.43%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.29%) Marketing
8 3 (1.71%) Electronics
8 3 (1.71%) Law
8 3 (1.71%) Retail
8 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.29%) React
1 4 (2.29%) SailPoint
1 4 (2.29%) Vue
1 4 (2.29%) YAML
2 3 (1.71%) JSON
2 3 (1.71%) RESTful
3 2 (1.14%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.14%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.14%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.14%) REST
3 2 (1.14%) SOAP
3 2 (1.14%) Web Services
3 2 (1.14%) XML
3 2 (1.14%) YANG
4 1 (0.57%) EDI
4 1 (0.57%) gRPC
4 1 (0.57%) JWT
4 1 (0.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.14%) Security Posture
2 12 (6.86%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.43%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.86%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) PKI
8 3 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.57%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.57%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.57%) IoT
10 1 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.57%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.00%) Windows
2 9 (5.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.43%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (24.00%) SIEM
3 27 (15.43%) CI/CD
4 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (13.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 21 (12.00%) DevOps
6 19 (10.86%) Cloud Security
6 19 (10.86%) Information Security
7 16 (9.14%) Application Security
8 15 (8.57%) Security Operations
9 14 (8.00%) DevSecOps
10 13 (7.43%) Computer Science
10 13 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (7.43%) Penetration Testing
11 12 (6.86%) Incident Response
12 11 (6.29%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (6.29%) Threat Modelling
12 11 (6.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 10 (5.71%) Analytics
13 10 (5.71%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.71%) Python
2 22 (12.57%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.57%) Bash
5 7 (4.00%) SQL
6 4 (2.29%) Go
6 4 (2.29%) Perl
7 1 (0.57%) Groovy
7 1 (0.57%) Java
7 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (17.71%) CISSP
2 20 (11.43%) Degree
3 19 (10.86%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.86%) CCNP
5 12 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (6.29%) CISM
7 8 (4.57%) CEH
8 5 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.71%) CCIE
10 3 (1.71%) CSSLP
10 3 (1.71%) GIAC
10 3 (1.71%) SANS
11 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.14%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (6.29%) NIST
3 5 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.71%) COBIT
4 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.14%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (9.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.71%) XenApp
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.57%) Docker
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (12.00%) Terraform
2 7 (4.00%) ArcSight ESM
3 6 (3.43%) SCCM
4 4 (2.29%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.29%) Functional Safety
4 4 (2.29%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.29%) Nessus
4 4 (2.29%) QRadar
5 3 (1.71%) CASB
6 2 (1.14%) Ansible
6 2 (1.14%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.57%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) vRealize
7 1 (0.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.71%) Splunk
3 16 (9.14%) ArcSight
4 15 (8.57%) Cisco
4 15 (8.57%) Palo Alto
5 11 (6.29%) VMware
6 10 (5.71%) Qualys
7 9 (5.14%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.57%) F5
8 8 (4.57%) Google
9 6 (3.43%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.43%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.86%) CA
11 4 (2.29%) Citrix
11 4 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.71%) Checkmarx
12 3 (1.71%) Juniper
12 3 (1.71%) Meraki
12 3 (1.71%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.71%) Veracode