Security Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 90 94
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +52
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 7 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.46% 0.79% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.88% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 13
10th Percentile £508 £426 £443
25th Percentile £520 £435 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +3.04% +53.33%
75th Percentile £545 £628 £600
90th Percentile £548 £649 £620
England median daily rate £515 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.36% -8.33% +9.09%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,426 1,367 1,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 89.82% 96.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 856 1,283
10th Percentile £260 £288 £219
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £614
90th Percentile £619 £655 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 56 35
10th Percentile £17.27 £13.50 £12.11
25th Percentile £18.39 £16.25 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.14 £20.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% +4.35% +5.26%
75th Percentile £47.99 £38.75 £23.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -42.22% +6.95% +63.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Security Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 21 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
West Yorkshire -7 3 £540 -5.47% 14
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
South Yorkshire -23 1 - - 1
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 Yorkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Threat Detection
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Splunk
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) SOAR
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (42.86%) Grafana
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (28.57%) Tenable
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (28.57%) Police
5 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
5 2 (28.57%) Aviation
5 2 (28.57%) FortiGate

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SCCP
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Aviation
2 2 (28.57%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (28.57%) Police
2 2 (28.57%) Swedish Language
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Robotics
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
2 5 (71.43%) Threat Detection
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) SOAR
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (14.29%) FinOps
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Ribbon
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable
3 1 (14.29%) ArcSight
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Imperva
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft