Senior Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Senior Security Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in the North West is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.093% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.100% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £571 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £593 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.49% - -
75th Percentile £488 £614 -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £550 £593 £748
% change year-on-year -7.17% -20.74% +31.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,270 2,002 2,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.13% 92.81% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 1,132 1,669
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £358 £381 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 121 165
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.49 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.72 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £27.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -22.50% +60.92%
75th Percentile £55.72 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £64.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the North West

Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Manchester -8 3 £400 -32.49% 1
Senior Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Senior 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 West region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Development
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) NestJS
1 3 (100.00%) Ping Identity
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) NestJS
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Development
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Ping Identity