Security Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Security Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £501, 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 71 88 102
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 8 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.53% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.55% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £355 £425 £389
25th Percentile £400 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £575 £504
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +14.14% -6.28%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £597
90th Percentile £725 £720 £652
North West median daily rate £525 £525 £514
% change year-on-year - +2.14% -2.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Manchester

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Manchester

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Manchester

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

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 Manchester region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (37.50%) Thycotic
3 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Imperva
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) CCSE
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Housing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (37.50%) Data Management
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCSA
1 1 (12.50%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Thycotic
2 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Imperva
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds