Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

Security Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Peterborough is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 6.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 £650 -
% change year-on-year -21.54% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Peterborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Peterborough. 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 Peterborough with a recognized job title 73 87 107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.65% 75.65% 57.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 17
10th Percentile £174 £161 £175
25th Percentile £271 £185 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £213 £277
Median % change year-on-year +147.06% -23.38% -33.77%
75th Percentile £578 £450 £463
90th Percentile £591 £474 £616
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 £509 £442
% change year-on-year +0.25% +15.10% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 58 56
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.34 -
25th Percentile - £14.84 £14.16
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.84% +12.41%
75th Percentile £14.60 £21.50 £21.37
90th Percentile £17.55 £31.37 £24.57
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.84 £16.30 £21.37
% change year-on-year -2.82% -23.72% +20.60%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Peterborough

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Peterborough.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Peterborough

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough

For the 6 months to 8 September 2026, 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 Peterborough region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management