Security Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 377 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Security Support Engineer 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.005% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £313 £350
% change year-on-year +64.00% -10.78% -12.44%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,848 16,780 20,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.24% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 10,186 14,043
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £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 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,241 1,692 1,142
10th Percentile £13.27 £13.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +17.07% +78.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.38% +63.55%

Security Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Security Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Security Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Security Support Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Security Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
South East - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £513 - 1
Security Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 2025, Security Support 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 Security Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (50.00%) Thycotic
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (25.00%) French Language
4 1 (25.00%) German Language

Security Support 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) French Language
2 1 (25.00%) German Language
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Thycotic
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet