Security Engineer Contracts in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 215 289
Rank change year-on-year 0 +74 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 182 310 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.21% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.27% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 236 245
10th Percentile £400 £450 £400
25th Percentile £463 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £623 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +11.16% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £760 £794 £775
England median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £91.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £97.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +254.55% -
75th Percentile - £103.75 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.40 £83.40 £59.23
% change year-on-year -41.97% +40.81% +5.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Central London -8 13 £505 -20.47% 10
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (32.42%) Azure
2 55 (30.22%) Cybersecurity
3 50 (27.47%) Finance
4 46 (25.27%) SIEM
5 44 (24.18%) Microsoft
6 39 (21.43%) Python
6 39 (21.43%) Firewall
7 36 (19.78%) CISSP
8 33 (18.13%) Vulnerability Management
9 31 (17.03%) AWS
9 31 (17.03%) Network Security
10 29 (15.93%) Information Security
10 29 (15.93%) Cloud Security
11 27 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (14.29%) CI/CD
13 25 (13.74%) Terraform
13 25 (13.74%) Application Security
14 23 (12.64%) Security Cleared
14 23 (12.64%) Degree
15 22 (12.09%) Security Posture
16 21 (11.54%) PowerShell
16 21 (11.54%) Active Directory
17 20 (10.99%) Penetration Testing
18 19 (10.44%) Banking
18 19 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (10.44%) Security Operations
19 17 (9.34%) Entra ID
19 17 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
19 17 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
19 17 (9.34%) Splunk

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.42%) Azure
2 31 (17.03%) AWS
3 19 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.34%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.79%) GCP
6 11 (6.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (3.85%) GitHub
8 5 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.75%) Serverless
9 4 (2.20%) Akamai
9 4 (2.20%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.20%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.20%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.20%) Slack
10 3 (1.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.65%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (21.43%) Firewall
2 31 (17.03%) Network Security
3 14 (7.69%) DNS
4 9 (4.95%) VPN
5 7 (3.85%) BGP
6 6 (3.30%) DHCP
6 6 (3.30%) OSPF
7 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.75%) WAN
8 4 (2.20%) HTTP
8 4 (2.20%) IPsec
8 4 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.65%) EIGRP
9 3 (1.65%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.65%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.65%) LAN
9 3 (1.65%) SSL
10 2 (1.10%) FTP
10 2 (1.10%) Internet
10 2 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.40%) BigQuery
1 8 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.20%) Big Data
2 4 (2.20%) Metadata
2 4 (2.20%) Power BI
3 1 (0.55%) MySQL
3 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Burp Suite
2 7 (3.85%) JIRA
3 5 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.20%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.10%) GitLab
6 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.55%) Git
6 1 (0.55%) Maven
General
1 50 (27.47%) Finance
2 19 (10.44%) Banking
3 17 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.24%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.20%) Marketing
9 3 (1.65%) Electronics
9 3 (1.65%) Retail
9 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Law
11 1 (0.55%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.20%) React
1 4 (2.20%) SailPoint
1 4 (2.20%) Vue
2 3 (1.65%) .NET
2 3 (1.65%) RESTful
2 3 (1.65%) Web Services
3 2 (1.10%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.10%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.55%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.55%) EDI
4 1 (0.55%) gRPC
4 1 (0.55%) HTML
4 1 (0.55%) HTML5
4 1 (0.55%) JSON
4 1 (0.55%) JWT
4 1 (0.55%) OAuth
4 1 (0.55%) OpenID
4 1 (0.55%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.09%) Security Posture
2 14 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.75%) Cyberattack
4 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.10%) PKI
8 1 (0.55%) CCTV
8 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.55%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.55%) IoT
8 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.79%) Windows
2 9 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.30%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.75%) Linux
5 3 (1.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.22%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (25.27%) SIEM
3 33 (18.13%) Vulnerability Management
4 29 (15.93%) Cloud Security
4 29 (15.93%) Information Security
5 27 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 25 (13.74%) Application Security
8 20 (10.99%) Penetration Testing
9 19 (10.44%) Security Operations
10 17 (9.34%) Computer Science
10 17 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (8.79%) DevSecOps
12 15 (8.24%) DevOps
12 15 (8.24%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (7.69%) Threat Detection
14 13 (7.14%) Analytics
14 13 (7.14%) Incident Response
14 13 (7.14%) Static Application Security Testing
15 12 (6.59%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.43%) Python
2 21 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.49%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.40%) Bash
4 8 (4.40%) SQL
5 4 (2.20%) Go
5 4 (2.20%) Perl
6 2 (1.10%) Bicep
6 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.55%) Groovy
7 1 (0.55%) Java
7 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 36 (19.78%) CISSP
2 23 (12.64%) Degree
2 23 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.69%) CISM
5 11 (6.04%) CCNP
5 11 (6.04%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.40%) CEH
7 5 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.20%) CCIE
8 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.20%) GIAC
8 4 (2.20%) SANS
9 3 (1.65%) CCNA
9 3 (1.65%) CISA
9 3 (1.65%) CSSLP
9 3 (1.65%) GCIA
9 3 (1.65%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (7.69%) NIST
3 9 (4.95%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.30%) GDPR
5 5 (2.75%) COBIT
6 3 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.65%) NCSC
7 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.10%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.55%) QA
8 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.10%) Docker
4 2 (1.10%) XenApp
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (13.74%) Terraform
2 11 (6.04%) SCCM
3 7 (3.85%) ArcSight ESM
4 6 (3.30%) CASB
5 4 (2.20%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.20%) Functional Safety
5 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.20%) QRadar
6 3 (1.65%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.65%) Nessus
6 3 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.10%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.10%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.10%) SCOrch
7 2 (1.10%) WSUS
8 1 (0.55%) Ansible
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.55%) vRealize
8 1 (0.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 44 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.34%) Splunk
3 16 (8.79%) ArcSight
4 14 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 13 (7.14%) Cisco
5 13 (7.14%) Qualys
6 11 (6.04%) VMware
7 9 (4.95%) Google
8 7 (3.85%) F5
8 7 (3.85%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.30%) CA
9 6 (3.30%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (3.30%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.75%) Checkmarx
10 5 (2.75%) Veracode
11 4 (2.20%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.65%) AlgoSec
12 3 (1.65%) Citrix
12 3 (1.65%) Imperva
12 3 (1.65%) SAP