Security Engineer Contracts in the South East

Security Engineer
England > South East

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the South East is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 153 208
Rank change year-on-year +11 +55 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 58 62 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.03% 1.10% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.17% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 51 39
10th Percentile £413 £393 £299
25th Percentile £425 £473 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £476 £656 £540
90th Percentile £620 £700 £595
England median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.60
25th Percentile - - £54.21
Median hourly rate - - £59.23
75th Percentile - - £63.16
90th Percentile - - £64.11
England median hourly rate £48.40 £83.40 £59.23
% change year-on-year -41.97% +40.81% +5.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,176 5,316 7,307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 94.61% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,066 3,686 5,010
10th Percentile £231 £221 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 234 314
10th Percentile £12.86 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.15
Median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +138.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.05
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -16.67% +89.04% +10.72%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the South East

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the South East

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the South East

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the South East

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hampshire +16 43 £450 -14.29% 9
Thames Valley -12 13 £431 -15.45% 10
Berkshire -1 9 £425 -22.73% 7
Surrey +13 6 £456 -34.82% 5
Buckinghamshire +15 4 £456 -10.67% 3
Kent +7 2 £460 +26.90% 6
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 30 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 South East region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 36 (62.07%) DV Cleared
3 30 (51.72%) PowerShell
4 27 (46.55%) Ansible
4 27 (46.55%) Terraform
4 27 (46.55%) PKI
4 27 (46.55%) Python
5 13 (22.41%) Firewall
6 10 (17.24%) Windows
6 10 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (13.79%) Network Security
7 8 (13.79%) VMware
8 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
9 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
9 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
9 6 (10.34%) Palo Alto
9 6 (10.34%) VMware NSX
9 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
10 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
10 5 (8.62%) SIEM
10 5 (8.62%) ITSM
10 5 (8.62%) Migration
11 4 (6.90%) Dell
11 4 (6.90%) VPN
11 4 (6.90%) CheckPoint
11 4 (6.90%) Linux
11 4 (6.90%) Information Security
11 4 (6.90%) Agile
11 4 (6.90%) Cisco
11 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.90%) Azure
2 2 (3.45%) AWS
2 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.41%) Firewall
2 8 (13.79%) Network Security
3 4 (6.90%) VPN
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (5.17%) DMZ
5 2 (3.45%) VSAN
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.72%) DNS
6 1 (1.72%) Internet
6 1 (1.72%) LAN
6 1 (1.72%) Wireless
6 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Robot Framework
1 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.72%) MSI
General
1 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.17%) Banking
3 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Advertising
4 2 (3.45%) Automotive
4 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Finance
5 1 (1.72%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (46.55%) PKI
2 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.72%) CCTV
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.45%) Unix
4 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (8.62%) ITSM
2 5 (8.62%) Migration
2 5 (8.62%) SIEM
3 4 (6.90%) Agile
3 4 (6.90%) Information Security
3 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (6.90%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (5.17%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (5.17%) Change Control
4 3 (5.17%) Design Patterns
4 3 (5.17%) High Availability
4 3 (5.17%) Incident Response
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Security
5 2 (3.45%) Energy Management
5 2 (3.45%) Network Architecture
5 2 (3.45%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (3.45%) Process Improvement
5 2 (3.45%) Test Automation
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) PowerShell
2 27 (46.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 36 (62.07%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) VCAP
4 2 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) COBIT
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) NIST
1 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
1 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) VMware NSX
2 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.45%) vSphere
5 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (46.55%) Ansible
1 27 (46.55%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.72%) Kibana
3 1 (1.72%) logstash
3 1 (1.72%) Nessus
3 1 (1.72%) SCCM
3 1 (1.72%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) VMware
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) Palo Alto
4 4 (6.90%) CheckPoint
4 4 (6.90%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) Dell
5 3 (5.17%) ArcSight
5 3 (5.17%) Blue Coat
5 3 (5.17%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (5.17%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.17%) Juniper
6 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.45%) Tanium
7 1 (1.72%) F5
7 1 (1.72%) FireEye
7 1 (1.72%) HP
7 1 (1.72%) Meraki
7 1 (1.72%) Netskope
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds