Senior Security Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 451 614
Rank change year-on-year +126 +163 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 20 26 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.10% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 11
10th Percentile £534 £510 £425
25th Percentile - £556 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +25.00% -5.98%
75th Percentile £719 £783 £619
90th Percentile £768 £821 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £538
% change year-on-year -7.14% +30.23% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £48.00
UK median hourly rate - - £40.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Senior Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Security Engineer.

Senior Security Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Security Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Senior Security Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) Windows
4 5 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (25.00%) Go
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (20.00%) Safety Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Functional Safety
5 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (20.00%) Open Source
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) YAML
5 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Red Hat

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
2 5 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (5.00%) IoT
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) PKI
5 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Open Source
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (20.00%) Safety Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.00%) Red Team
6 2 (10.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Go
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) GIAC
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) OSCP
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Functional Safety
3 1 (5.00%) CASB
3 1 (5.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) VMware