Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Security Engineer
Somerset > Taunton

As of 2 November 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Security Engineer daily rate in Taunton.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 7.41% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Somerset median daily rate £350 £700 £338
% change year-on-year -50.00% +107.41% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Taunton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Taunton. 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 Taunton with a recognized job title 27 22 30
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 91.67% 96.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 27
10th Percentile £440 £440 £486
25th Percentile £500 £500 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -2.99%
75th Percentile £715 £600 £720
90th Percentile £775 £668 £749
Somerset median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Taunton

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, Security 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 Taunton region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft