Security Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 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
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 88 94
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 16 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.94% 1.08% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.18% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 23
10th Percentile - £396 £428
25th Percentile £380 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -10.34% +52.63%
75th Percentile £500 £775 £750
90th Percentile £605 £850 -
England median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +4.55%

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 1,540 1,694 2,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 91.57% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 1,172 1,414
10th Percentile £235 £250 £251
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £706 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 75 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £13.54
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.59 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +25.06% -5.52% +15.19%
75th Percentile £34.92 £36.25 £28.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £45.70
England median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -43.94% +5.88% +65.50%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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
Warwickshire 0 8 £380 -30.91% 9
Birmingham +1 3 £500 -10.51% 12
Herefordshire +11 1 - -
Coventry -9 1 - - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 6
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SIEM
2 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) Threat Detection
4 6 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 5 (31.25%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 5 (31.25%) Network Security
6 4 (25.00%) Python
6 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 4 (25.00%) Azure
6 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
7 3 (18.75%) DMVPN
7 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
7 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) CISSP
7 3 (18.75%) Cisco
7 3 (18.75%) WAN
7 3 (18.75%) Juniper
7 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (18.75%) IPsec
7 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (12.50%) Wireless
8 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat

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 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) Network Security
3 3 (18.75%) DMVPN
3 3 (18.75%) IPsec
3 3 (18.75%) WAN
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (12.50%) SSL
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) Wireless
5 1 (6.25%) BGP
5 1 (6.25%) DSL
5 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
5 1 (6.25%) Modbus
5 1 (6.25%) OSPF
5 1 (6.25%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
5 1 (6.25%) VLAN
5 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Axis
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.25%) CCTV
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (6.25%) SCADA
4 1 (6.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (50.00%) SIEM
2 6 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 6 (37.50%) Threat Detection
3 5 (31.25%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) Data Security
6 2 (12.50%) Inventory Management
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (12.50%) Use Case
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Korn
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CISSP
4 2 (12.50%) CEH
4 2 (12.50%) CISM
5 1 (6.25%) CCNP
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (6.25%) Def Stans
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
1 1 (6.25%) logstash
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) QRadar
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Juniper
3 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat
3 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 2 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (12.50%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.25%) Cribl.io
4 1 (6.25%) Darktrace
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Tenable