Security Engineer Contracts in the North West

Security Engineer
England > North West

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the North West is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 90 140
Rank change year-on-year -38 +50 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 10 67 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 2.12% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 2.24% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 41 28
10th Percentile £425 £288 £324
25th Percentile £472 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -3.61% -1.19%
75th Percentile £591 £566 £630
90th Percentile £671 £630 £649
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £83.40 -
England median hourly rate £55.90 £83.31 £52.50
% change year-on-year -32.90% +58.70% +10.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,565 2,995 3,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 94.81% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,670 2,146 2,850
10th Percentile £281 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 129 171
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.76 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +50.02% +14.53%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.40 £42.63
90th Percentile £67.25 £65.80 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Manchester +9 6 £525 +5.00% 10
Cheshire -23 3 £550 -2.65% 7
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 North West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) CISSP
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Automotive
4 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (20.00%) CISM
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) PKI
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) OWASP
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) F5
4 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
4 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Automotive
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) German Language
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Insider Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) OWASP
4 2 (20.00%) Red Team
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Application Security
5 1 (10.00%) Biomedicine
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Product Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) UEBA
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
1 3 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (20.00%) CISM
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (10.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (10.00%) Nmap
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) CA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler