Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Security Engineer
England > North East

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the North East is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.73% 0.67% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
England median daily rate £538 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 390 266 241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 89.56% 93.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 139 164
10th Percentile £163 £249 £202
25th Percentile £350 £348 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.95% -17.18%
75th Percentile £535 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £658 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 17
10th Percentile £16.86 £17.10 £14.48
25th Percentile £18.72 £22.31 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - +105.24%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £56.50 - £63.50
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in the North East

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in the North East

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Tyne and Wear -7 3 £400 - 7
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Icinga
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Icinga
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft