Security Engineer Contracts in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 214 308
Rank change year-on-year -8 +94 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 174 336 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.98% 1.26% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.32% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 257 222
10th Percentile £406 £450 £400
25th Percentile £475 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £623 £569
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +9.45% +13.75%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £693
90th Percentile £775 £784 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £22.87
25th Percentile - £91.25 £24.14
Median hourly rate - £97.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +254.55% -42.11%
75th Percentile - £103.75 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.90 £83.36 £54.43
% change year-on-year -32.94% +53.14% +14.59%

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 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -9 13 £505 -20.47% 16
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 50 (28.74%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (28.16%) Azure
3 46 (26.44%) Finance
4 45 (25.86%) Python
5 42 (24.14%) SIEM
6 37 (21.26%) Microsoft
6 37 (21.26%) Firewall
7 33 (18.97%) AWS
8 32 (18.39%) CISSP
9 29 (16.67%) Network Security
10 27 (15.52%) CI/CD
11 24 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
12 23 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (12.64%) Security Posture
13 22 (12.64%) PowerShell
14 20 (11.49%) Security Cleared
14 20 (11.49%) Windows
14 20 (11.49%) Information Security
14 20 (11.49%) Banking
14 20 (11.49%) Terraform
14 20 (11.49%) DevOps
15 19 (10.92%) Degree
16 18 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (10.34%) Application Security
16 18 (10.34%) Cloud Security
17 17 (9.77%) Splunk
18 16 (9.20%) ArcSight
18 16 (9.20%) DNS
18 16 (9.20%) Social Skills
18 16 (9.20%) Security Operations

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 6 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.16%) Azure
2 33 (18.97%) AWS
3 18 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.05%) GCP
5 11 (6.32%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.02%) GitHub
9 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.87%) Mimecast
10 5 (2.87%) Serverless
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.30%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.30%) Slack
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.72%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (1.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (21.26%) Firewall
2 29 (16.67%) Network Security
3 16 (9.20%) DNS
4 10 (5.75%) BGP
5 9 (5.17%) VPN
6 7 (4.02%) DHCP
6 7 (4.02%) OSPF
7 6 (3.45%) LAN
7 6 (3.45%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.45%) WAN
8 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.30%) DKIM
9 4 (2.30%) DMARC
9 4 (2.30%) EIGRP
9 4 (2.30%) IPsec
10 3 (1.72%) HTTP
10 3 (1.72%) SSL
11 2 (1.15%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (1.15%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.60%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.30%) Big Data
3 4 (2.30%) Metadata
3 4 (2.30%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.02%) JIRA
2 6 (3.45%) Burp Suite
3 5 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.30%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.15%) Git
5 2 (1.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 46 (26.44%) Finance
2 20 (11.49%) Banking
3 16 (9.20%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.30%) Marketing
8 3 (1.72%) Electronics
8 3 (1.72%) Law
8 3 (1.72%) Retail
8 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.15%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.30%) React
1 4 (2.30%) SailPoint
1 4 (2.30%) Vue
1 4 (2.30%) YAML
2 3 (1.72%) JSON
2 3 (1.72%) RESTful
2 3 (1.72%) Web Services
3 2 (1.15%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.15%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.15%) REST
3 2 (1.15%) SOAP
3 2 (1.15%) XML
3 2 (1.15%) YANG
4 1 (0.57%) .NET
4 1 (0.57%) gRPC
4 1 (0.57%) JWT
4 1 (0.57%) OAuth
4 1 (0.57%) OpenID
4 1 (0.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.64%) Security Posture
2 10 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.87%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.15%) PKI
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.57%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.57%) IoT
10 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.57%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.49%) Windows
2 9 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.87%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.74%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (24.14%) SIEM
3 27 (15.52%) CI/CD
4 24 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 23 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (11.49%) DevOps
6 20 (11.49%) Information Security
7 18 (10.34%) Application Security
7 18 (10.34%) Cloud Security
8 16 (9.20%) Security Operations
9 14 (8.05%) DevSecOps
10 13 (7.47%) Computer Science
10 13 (7.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (7.47%) Penetration Testing
11 12 (6.90%) Threat Modelling
12 11 (6.32%) Analytics
12 11 (6.32%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (6.32%) Incident Response
12 11 (6.32%) Threat Detection
13 10 (5.75%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.86%) Python
2 22 (12.64%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.60%) Bash
5 7 (4.02%) SQL
6 4 (2.30%) Go
6 4 (2.30%) Perl
7 1 (0.57%) Groovy
7 1 (0.57%) Java
7 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (18.39%) CISSP
2 20 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) Degree
4 13 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.47%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.90%) CCNP
5 12 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (6.90%) CISM
6 8 (4.60%) CEH
7 5 (2.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.72%) CCIE
9 3 (1.72%) CSSLP
9 3 (1.72%) GIAC
9 3 (1.72%) SANS
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.15%) CCSP
10 2 (1.15%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.75%) NIST
3 5 (2.87%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.72%) COBIT
4 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.15%) Docker
3 2 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.15%) XenApp
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (11.49%) Terraform
2 7 (4.02%) ArcSight ESM
2 7 (4.02%) SCCM
3 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.30%) Functional Safety
4 4 (2.30%) Nessus
4 4 (2.30%) QRadar
5 3 (1.72%) CASB
5 3 (1.72%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.15%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.15%) WSUS
7 1 (0.57%) Ansible
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
Vendors
1 37 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.77%) Splunk
3 16 (9.20%) ArcSight
4 14 (8.05%) Cisco
4 14 (8.05%) Palo Alto
5 10 (5.75%) Qualys
5 10 (5.75%) VMware
6 9 (5.17%) F5
6 9 (5.17%) Fortinet
6 9 (5.17%) Google
7 7 (4.02%) Rapid7
8 5 (2.87%) CA
8 5 (2.87%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.72%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.72%) Citrix
10 3 (1.72%) Meraki
10 3 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.72%) SAP
10 3 (1.72%) Veracode