Security Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 61 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +32
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 3 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.40% 0.71% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.77% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £508 £393 -
25th Percentile £520 £464 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £571 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -0.65% +48.39%
75th Percentile £545 £632 £600
90th Percentile £548 £644 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -8.86% +3.04% +53.33%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 716 782 1,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.24% 92.43% 97.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 501 881
10th Percentile £300 £325 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £655 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 18
10th Percentile - £15.59 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £18.44 £13.16
Median hourly rate £33.11 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.16% +25.00% -7.50%
75th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £20.74 £20.25
% change year-on-year +6.75% +2.42% +6.58%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Security Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -6 3 £540 -5.47% 10
Halifax - 1 £550 -
Security Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 Yorkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SCCP
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk