Security Engineer Contracts in West London

Security Engineer
London > West London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in West London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.90% - 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% - 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £700
75th Percentile £516 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
London median daily rate £550 £588 £623
% change year-on-year -6.38% -5.62% +8.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 198 336 551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 94.65% 97.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 244 399
10th Percentile £206 £200 £300
25th Percentile £307 £270 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £456 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% -17.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £569 £638
90th Percentile £600 £646 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 52
10th Percentile £20.03 £16.25 £25.13
25th Percentile £20.35 £16.86 £38.88
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% -49.22% +197.67%
75th Percentile £30.79 £46.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.00 £84.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in West London

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in West London

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in West London

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the West London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hillingdon - 2 - - 2
Security Engineer
London

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 West London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Server Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys