Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Security Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 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
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 40 69
Rank change year-on-year -8 +29 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 1 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.28% 3.36% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 3.61% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £345 £513
25th Percentile £513 £394 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £655
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -17.94% +9.17%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile - £558 -
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +11.11% -19.64% +10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £69.78
25th Percentile - - £72.05
Median hourly rate - - £78.36
75th Percentile - - £82.15
90th Percentile - - £82.91
South East median hourly rate - - £78.36

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 339 499 747
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 93.27% 97.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 343 600
10th Percentile £204 £203 £194
25th Percentile £250 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -8.65% +1.46%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £638
90th Percentile £629 £663 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 29
10th Percentile £20.55 £15.96 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.15 £27.81 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -15.50% +28.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £76.53
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £51.66
% change year-on-year -56.26% +11.30% +111.81%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Surrey

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 25 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
Leatherhead +2 1 £525 -
Security Engineer
South East

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 25 September 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 Surrey region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys