Infrastructure Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 362 418
Rank change year-on-year -11 +56 +87
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 4 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.050% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.054% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 4
10th Percentile £275 - £314
25th Percentile £294 £300 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £399
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.31% -6.18%
75th Percentile £450 £538 £518
90th Percentile £495 £625 £612
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £338
% change year-on-year +5.56% +33.33% -38.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,896 16,585 20,196
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 92.34% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,529 9,701 13,544
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,250 1,488 1,156
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £52.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +61.35%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England -15 3 £425 -19.05%
North West -18 2 £425 -19.05%
South East +12 1 £275 -42.71% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 September 2025, Infrastructure 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Server Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) NGFW
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SMS
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) NGFW
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) SMS
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Housing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Server Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds