Senior Security Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 445 518
Rank change year-on-year +60 +73 -84
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 6 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.050% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.053% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £433 £464 £498
25th Percentile £444 £534 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £767 £575
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% +33.32% -
75th Percentile £494 £783 £588
90th Percentile £498 £830 £618
UK median daily rate £650 £713 £550
% change year-on-year -8.77% +29.55% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Scotland +40 2 £500 -31.03%
North of England +24 2 £450 -23.11% 7
South West +22 2 - - 2
North West +18 2 £450 -42.53% 6
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) PKI
3 2 (33.33%) SCCM
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Email Filtering
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
4 1 (16.67%) Email Filtering
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) VMware