Security Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 191 193
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 131 151 282
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.28% 1.15% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.23% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 135 216
10th Percentile £400 £425 £406
25th Percentile £406 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 £558
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +6.28% +1.36%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £700
90th Percentile £745 £700 £784
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile - £62.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile - - £69.00
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £72.50 £83.40
% change year-on-year +20.69% -13.07% +66.80%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,575 12,320 21,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.57% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 8,296 14,964
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.41% -0.93%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 385 512
10th Percentile £12.85 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £27.84 £24.74
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £75.00 £78.10
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Engineer.

Security Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Engineer over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Security Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Engineer.

Security Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (43.51%) Firewall
2 52 (39.69%) Azure
3 45 (34.35%) Cloud Security
4 35 (26.72%) Network Security
5 33 (25.19%) AWS
6 32 (24.43%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (23.66%) SIEM
7 31 (23.66%) Microsoft
7 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
8 29 (22.14%) Finance
9 27 (20.61%) Security Cleared
10 24 (18.32%) Windows
11 23 (17.56%) Security Operations
11 23 (17.56%) Incident Response
12 21 (16.03%) SC Cleared
13 20 (15.27%) Zscaler
13 20 (15.27%) Cisco
13 20 (15.27%) CISSP
14 19 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (13.74%) PowerShell
15 18 (13.74%) Python
15 18 (13.74%) Threat Modelling
16 17 (12.98%) Terraform
16 17 (12.98%) Information Security
17 16 (12.21%) Palo Alto
17 16 (12.21%) Data Loss Prevention
17 16 (12.21%) DevSecOps
18 15 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 15 (11.45%) Azure Sentinel
18 15 (11.45%) Entra ID

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.69%) Azure
2 33 (25.19%) AWS
3 19 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (11.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 15 (11.45%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Purview
6 10 (7.63%) GCP
7 9 (6.87%) GitHub
8 8 (6.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.82%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon Macie
10 4 (3.05%) Cloudflare
10 4 (3.05%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.53%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (1.53%) OCI
11 2 (1.53%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 57 (43.51%) Firewall
2 35 (26.72%) Network Security
3 11 (8.40%) VPN
4 10 (7.63%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (6.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (4.58%) DNS
7 5 (3.82%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (3.82%) Internet
7 5 (3.82%) SSL
8 4 (3.05%) DHCP
8 4 (3.05%) IPsec
8 4 (3.05%) Wireless
9 3 (2.29%) BGP
9 3 (2.29%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.53%) HTTP
10 2 (1.53%) Multicast
10 2 (1.53%) OSPF
10 2 (1.53%) TACACS
11 1 (0.76%) SNMP
11 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) GitLab
1 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.29%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.29%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) Metasploit
2 3 (2.29%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.53%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
General
1 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.14%) Finance
3 11 (8.40%) Banking
3 11 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.53%) Aviation
6 2 (1.53%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (1.53%) Law
6 2 (1.53%) Legal
6 2 (1.53%) Military
6 2 (1.53%) Police
6 2 (1.53%) Swedish Language
7 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) Web Services
2 2 (1.53%) .NET
2 2 (1.53%) Middleware
2 2 (1.53%) React
3 1 (0.76%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.76%) OAuth
3 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.76%) REST
3 1 (0.76%) SAML
3 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.11%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (6.11%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.58%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.05%) PKI
3 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (2.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.29%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.53%) Robotics
5 2 (1.53%) SCADA
6 1 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.76%) CMDB
6 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) Windows
2 6 (4.58%) Linux
3 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.35%) Cloud Security
2 32 (24.43%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (23.66%) SIEM
4 23 (17.56%) Incident Response
4 23 (17.56%) Security Operations
5 18 (13.74%) Threat Modelling
6 17 (12.98%) Information Security
7 16 (12.21%) Data Loss Prevention
7 16 (12.21%) DevSecOps
8 15 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 13 (9.92%) Data Protection
9 13 (9.92%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (9.92%) Zero Trust
10 12 (9.16%) Penetration Testing
10 12 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (8.40%) Migration
11 11 (8.40%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 10 (7.63%) DevOps
13 9 (6.87%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.74%) PowerShell
1 18 (13.74%) Python
2 8 (6.11%) Java
3 7 (5.34%) Bash
4 5 (3.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.05%) SQL
6 2 (1.53%) C
6 2 (1.53%) C#
6 2 (1.53%) C++
6 2 (1.53%) Perl
6 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.76%) Bicep
7 1 (0.76%) Korn
Qualifications
1 27 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.27%) CISSP
4 14 (10.69%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (10.69%) Degree
5 12 (9.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (7.63%) CCNP
7 9 (6.87%) Azure Certification
8 6 (4.58%) CISM
8 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.58%) OSCP
9 5 (3.82%) CREST Certified
9 5 (3.82%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.29%) CHECK Team Member
10 3 (2.29%) Tigerscheme
11 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.53%) CRISC
11 2 (1.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) NIST
2 12 (9.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.58%) NCSC
4 5 (3.82%) GDPR
4 5 (3.82%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.76%) GRC
7 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.82%) Docker
3 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.76%) Firmware
5 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (12.98%) Terraform
2 9 (6.87%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.58%) Ansible
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.29%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.29%) Nmap
5 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.29%) QRadar
6 2 (1.53%) Grafana
6 2 (1.53%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.76%) CASB
7 1 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.76%) Nagios
7 1 (0.76%) Packer
7 1 (0.76%) SCCM
7 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.27%) Cisco
2 20 (15.27%) Zscaler
3 16 (12.21%) Palo Alto
4 12 (9.16%) CheckPoint
5 7 (5.34%) F5
5 7 (5.34%) Google
6 6 (4.58%) Darktrace
6 6 (4.58%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.05%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.05%) Splunk
8 3 (2.29%) Aruba
8 3 (2.29%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (2.29%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.29%) Juniper
8 3 (2.29%) Oracle
8 3 (2.29%) Qualys
8 3 (2.29%) Ruckus Wireless
8 3 (2.29%) Tenable
8 3 (2.29%) Veracode