Security Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £481, 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 84 95 113
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 8 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.79% 0.30% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.32% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile £402 £465 £499
25th Percentile £405 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £622 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +8.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £605
90th Percentile £585 £640 £689
England median daily rate £525 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

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

Contract vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +18 4 £413 -25.00% 10
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
South Yorkshire +6 1 £600 -4.00% 4
Security Engineer
England

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

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 Yorkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) SOAR
4 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (25.00%) Robotics
5 2 (25.00%) Swedish Language
5 2 (25.00%) Ribbon
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Firewall
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (25.00%) Aviation
5 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
5 2 (25.00%) Tenable
5 2 (25.00%) Grafana

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aviation
2 2 (25.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (25.00%) Police
2 2 (25.00%) Swedish Language
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Robotics
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) SOAR
2 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Ribbon
2 2 (25.00%) Tenable
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk