Senior Security Engineer Contracts in Newport

Senior Security Engineer
South Wales > Newport

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in Newport is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 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
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newport 2.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South Wales median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newport. 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 Newport with a recognized job title 38 67 148
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 81.71% 97.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 108
10th Percentile £148 £134 £296
25th Percentile £254 £166 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -36.36% +3.77%
75th Percentile £543 £535 £638
90th Percentile £606 £625 £669
South Wales median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 16
10th Percentile £31.50 £14.87 -
25th Percentile £33.75 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £41.25 £25.18 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +63.82% +38.81% -27.44%
75th Percentile £45.00 £85.00 £19.98
90th Percentile £48.75 £87.80 £49.38
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.35 £18.14
% change year-on-year +10.55% +12.20% -8.89%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in Newport

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in Newport

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newport

For the 6 months to 7 June 2025, Senior 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 Newport region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newport 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler