Security Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Security Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 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
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 123 106
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 16 19 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.64% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.70% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 39
10th Percentile £405 £550 £410
25th Percentile £441 £593 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £594 £828 £738
90th Percentile £626 £850 £750
England median daily rate £525 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,977 2,717 3,035
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 91.98% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,803 2,163
10th Percentile £205 £213 £228
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £540 £588 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £694
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 233 102
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £14.64
Median hourly rate £22.28 £19.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £29.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% -10.11% +76.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the Midlands

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the Midlands

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the Midlands

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the Midlands

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
West Midlands +2 15 £544 -16.35% 40
East Midlands +4 1 £415 -39.42% 22
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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 Midlands region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) SIEM
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Network Security
3 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
5 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 3 (18.75%) CISSP
5 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
6 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (12.50%) AWS
6 2 (12.50%) Proofpoint
6 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (12.50%) CEH
6 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Management

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) Network Security
3 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (6.25%) BGP
4 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
4 1 (6.25%) DSL
4 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
4 1 (6.25%) IPsec
4 1 (6.25%) Modbus
4 1 (6.25%) OSPF
4 1 (6.25%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
4 1 (6.25%) VLAN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Axis
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OpenID
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) CCTV
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (6.25%) SCADA
4 1 (6.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) SIEM
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
4 3 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Compliance Management
5 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Data Security
5 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CISSP
4 2 (12.50%) CEH
4 2 (12.50%) CISM
5 1 (6.25%) CCNP
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.25%) Def Stans
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) logstash
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) QRadar
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
1 1 (6.25%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Proofpoint
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Juniper
3 1 (6.25%) Ping Identity
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Tenable