Senior Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Senior Security Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in South Wales is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.40% 0.31% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% - -
Wales median daily rate £500 £593 -
% change year-on-year -15.61% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 229 298 386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 91.13% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 175 294
10th Percentile £187 £136 £182
25th Percentile £265 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £600
90th Percentile £631 £623 £650
Wales median daily rate £388 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -8.82% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 43 26
10th Percentile £12.73 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £17.30 £25.60 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -32.42% +7.05% +32.86%
75th Percentile £20.75 £49.38 £37.50
90th Percentile £24.99 £53.75 £50.72
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £27.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -24.07% +20.00% +38.23%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in South Wales

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in South Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in South Wales

Senior Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Newport - 1 £500 -
Senior Security Engineer
Wales

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 8 September 2025, Senior 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 Wales region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler