Security Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Security Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 100 121
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 7 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.46% 0.85% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.87% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 18
10th Percentile £425 £389 £396
25th Percentile £441 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £504 £538
Median % change year-on-year +16.63% -6.28% +2.38%
75th Percentile £694 £597 £638
90th Percentile £725 £652 £679
North West median daily rate £519 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% -2.10% +0.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,468 1,829 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.76% 96.62% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 1,360 1,993
10th Percentile £313 £313 £214
25th Percentile £394 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.13 £23.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.40 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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 Manchester region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) CISM
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (28.57%) NIST
4 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (14.29%) Red Team
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps

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 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Insider Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Biotechnology
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) OWASP
4 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Qualys
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk