Security Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Security Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Security Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.052% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
England median daily rate £325 £313 £308
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% -50.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 3,445 3,841 5,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.57% 92.40% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,226 2,303 3,344
10th Percentile £204 £245 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £507
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +0.35% +1.35%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £613
90th Percentile £663 £684 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 216 246
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.04 £26.81 £22.56
Median hourly rate £20.79 £57.52 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -63.86% +13.84% +44.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £72.36 £67.44
90th Percentile £72.20 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

Security Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Security Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Security Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Security Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Security Support 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 Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Thames Valley - 2 £325 - 1
Berkshire - 2 £325 - 1
Security Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Security Support 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 South East region featuring Security Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) FireEye
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery

Security Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) FireEye
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium