Senior Security Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Security Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 438 581
Rank change year-on-year +57 +143 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 15 44 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.17% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.18% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 11
10th Percentile £545 £556 £400
25th Percentile £622 £600 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £691 £787 £738
90th Percentile £761 £834 £775
England median daily rate £650 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% +20.00%

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 16,341 24,264 37,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,686 27,233
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
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% +3.79% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 279 424
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.66 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% +2.86% +11.75%
75th Percentile £46.50 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.03 £82.50 £66.39
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.31
% change year-on-year -16.67% +93.05% +8.42%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in London

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in London

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +25 1 £525 -25.00% 5
Senior Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 job ads across the London region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (26.67%) Safety Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Functional Safety
4 3 (20.00%) Application Security
4 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Windows
5 2 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (13.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (6.67%) YAML

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) IoT
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
1 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (26.67%) Safety Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Application Security
4 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Coaching
6 1 (6.67%) Security Testing
6 1 (6.67%) TOGAF
6 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) GIAC
2 1 (6.67%) OSCP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Functional Safety
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.67%) Juniper
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat