Security Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Security Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £498 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 105 115
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 11 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.58% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.55% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 9
10th Percentile - £435 £350
25th Percentile £413 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +2.80% +33.75%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £588
90th Percentile £620 £675 £642
South East median daily rate £450 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,786 1,646 2,223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 94.87% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 1,049 1,443
10th Percentile £234 £325 £221
25th Percentile £386 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 54 36
10th Percentile £18.55 £17.80 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £57.82 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +200.35% -8.55%
75th Percentile £70.73 £73.90 £33.13
90th Percentile £86.86 £79.93 £74.32
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Berkshire

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Berkshire

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Berkshire

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in Berkshire

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Ascot - 3 - -
Bracknell - 3 - - 2
Reading -11 2 £625 -3.85% 6
Maidenhead - 2 £425 - 1
Wokingham - 1 £570 -
Security Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 Berkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
1 5 (45.45%) Network Architecture
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Juniper
3 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
3 3 (27.27%) DMZ
3 3 (27.27%) ITSM
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Blue Coat
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Change Control
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
3 3 (27.27%) Network Security
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (27.27%) DMZ
2 3 (27.27%) Network Security
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Automotive
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Network Architecture
2 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (27.27%) Change Control
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) ITSM
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Energy Management
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Data Encryption
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) RBAC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Blue Coat
1 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
1 3 (27.27%) Juniper
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce