Security Engineer Contracts in the South West

Security Engineer
England > South West

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the South West is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 128 134
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 13 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 0.91% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.97% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 16
10th Percentile £265 £500 £438
25th Percentile £382 £525 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 - £650
90th Percentile £575 £680 £779
England median daily rate £525 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - £83.41 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year - +0.12% +48.77%
75th Percentile - - £83.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.31 £55.90 £83.31
% change year-on-year +31.14% -32.90% +58.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +22 8 £397 -33.79% 24
Somerset +5 4 £506 -27.68% 8
Gloucestershire +15 1 £550 +10.00% 24
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
2 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) Wireless
2 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 4 (30.77%) Infoblox
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Aruba
2 4 (30.77%) F5
2 4 (30.77%) Ruckus Wireless
2 4 (30.77%) Extreme Networks
2 4 (30.77%) Zscaler
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
3 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Nagios
4 2 (15.38%) MPLS
4 2 (15.38%) OSPF
4 2 (15.38%) BGP
4 2 (15.38%) IPv6
4 2 (15.38%) CCIE
4 2 (15.38%) Broadband

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless
2 2 (15.38%) BGP
2 2 (15.38%) Broadband
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) IPv6
2 2 (15.38%) MPLS
2 2 (15.38%) Multicast
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
1 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (23.08%) Migration
1 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
2 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
2 2 (15.38%) Security Management
2 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
2 2 (15.38%) SIEM
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCIE
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) CCSA
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Aruba
2 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
2 4 (30.77%) Extreme Networks
2 4 (30.77%) F5
2 4 (30.77%) Infoblox
2 4 (30.77%) Ruckus Wireless
2 4 (30.77%) Zscaler
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Qualys
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) SAP