IT Security Engineer Contracts

IT Security Engineer
UK

The median IT Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 680 836
Rank change year-on-year +109 +156 -152
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 14 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.022% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.024% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 9
10th Percentile £480 £449 £387
25th Percentile £588 £531 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £606 £470
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% +28.99% -10.48%
75th Percentile £775 £650 £500
90th Percentile - - £513
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £588 £485
% change year-on-year -18.30% +21.13% -7.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in the UK

IT Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Security Engineer.

Daily rate trend for IT Security Engineer in the UK

IT Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Security Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Engineer in the UK

IT Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Security Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Engineer in the UK

IT Security Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +105 14 £750 +20.00% 12
London +95 10 £750 +15.38% 3
Work from Home +126 6 £750 +36.36% 4
UK excluding London +64 4 £480 -18.30% 10
South West - 2 - - 2
North of England +24 1 - - 3
North West +23 1 - - 3
South East +17 1 £480 -12.73% 3

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, IT 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 featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) SIEM
2 9 (64.29%) Finance
3 8 (57.14%) Banking
4 7 (50.00%) ArcSight
5 4 (28.57%) Windows
5 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (21.43%) AWS
6 3 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (21.43%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
7 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (14.29%) SDLC
7 2 (14.29%) DevOps
7 2 (14.29%) C#
7 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
7 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (14.29%) Linux
7 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 2 (14.29%) Firewall
7 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Azure
7 2 (14.29%) Terraform
7 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (7.14%) Security Operations

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) SIEM
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
4 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security
5 1 (7.14%) IT Governance
5 1 (7.14%) ITSM
5 1 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.14%) Security Management
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (7.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) COBIT
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) ArcSight
2 3 (21.43%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Netskope