Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in West London

Security Engineer
London > West London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in West London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.58% 1.09% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 1.14% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £350 £460 £570
25th Percentile £363 £475 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £400 £525 -
90th Percentile £450 £540 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +13.64%

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 238 263 522
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.82% 95.64% 96.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 192 419
10th Percentile £213 £213 £229
25th Percentile £350 £363 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £645
90th Percentile £554 £638 £750
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 21
10th Percentile £20.24 £18.13 £41.04
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.75 £58.00
Median hourly rate £25.11 £26.68 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -62.94% +323.53%
75th Percentile £41.31 £61.25 £90.00
90th Percentile £47.95 £69.40 -
London median hourly rate £28.14 £35.75 £37.75
% change year-on-year -21.29% -5.30% +25.83%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in West London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in West London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in West London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in West London over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in West London

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in West London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies 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 4 October 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 -8 3 £350 -36.36% 1
Hounslow - 1 £500 - 4
Security Engineer
London

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
3 3 (42.86%) F5
3 3 (42.86%) WLAN
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) BGP
3 3 (42.86%) Wireless
3 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) CCSA
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) Qualys
4 2 (28.57%) EIGRP
4 2 (28.57%) Firmware
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) SSL
4 2 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 2 (28.57%) DMVPN
4 2 (28.57%) CA Spectrum
4 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) BGP
3 3 (42.86%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Wireless
3 3 (42.86%) WLAN
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) DMVPN
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) EIGRP
4 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (28.57%) SSL
5 1 (14.29%) DMARC
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Tech Ops
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Management
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCSA
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) OSCP
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
1 3 (42.86%) F5
1 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Meraki
2 2 (28.57%) Qualys
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable
3 1 (14.29%) Forcepoint
3 1 (14.29%) Proofpoint