Social Engineering Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Social Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Social Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 342 388
Rank change year-on-year -46 +46 +90
Contract jobs citing Social Engineering 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.015% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.017% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £630 £570
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% +10.53% +6.05%
75th Percentile £419 - £588
90th Percentile - - £685
UK median daily rate £413 £540 £570
% change year-on-year -23.61% -5.26% -19.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Social Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,442 12,054 16,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.18% 87.99% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,457 7,040 10,848
10th Percentile £222 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,678 680 1,283
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.00 £16.96
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -31.43% +51.38%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.03 £73.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

Social Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Social Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Social Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Social Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Social Engineering

Social Engineering
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 Social Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
South East -16 4 £413 -34.52% 5
Social Engineering
UK

Social Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Intranet
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) OSINT
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Red Team
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) OSCP
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Nmap