Security Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £513, 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 83 95 100
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 14 16 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.82% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.90% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 25
10th Percentile - £604 £335
25th Percentile £400 £616 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +18.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £594 £825 £675
90th Percentile £618 £850 -
England median daily rate £525 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Birmingham +19 6 £500 -16.67% 15
Warwickshire +7 5 £400 -36.00% 9
Security Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 4 (28.57%) Python
4 4 (28.57%) Firewall
4 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (28.57%) SIEM
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (21.43%) CISSP
5 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
5 3 (21.43%) Network Security
5 3 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Compliance Management
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
6 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 2 (14.29%) CISM

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) Network Security
3 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) DSL
4 1 (7.14%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Axis
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) CCTV
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (7.14%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 4 (28.57%) SIEM
4 3 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Compliance Management
5 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Data Security
5 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) EAM
6 1 (7.14%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CISSP
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) CEH
2 2 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
1 1 (7.14%) logstash
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) Nessus
1 1 (7.14%) QRadar
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Proofpoint
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Tenable