Security Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Security Engineer
England > North of England

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 143 186
Rank change year-on-year -29 +43 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 18 77 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.38% 1.32% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.39% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 50 40
10th Percentile £425 £288 £313
25th Percentile £478 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +13.00% -
75th Percentile £641 £606 £630
90th Percentile £688 £689 £653
England median daily rate £573 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.58% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £83.40 -
England median hourly rate £55.90 £83.31 £52.50
% change year-on-year -32.90% +58.70% +10.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,460 5,554 6,974
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 95.27% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,802 3,920 5,129
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £381 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 162 292
10th Percentile £11.03 £13.96 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.82 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +65.08% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.94 £49.40 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.68 £49.98
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
North West -24 13 £525 +2.14% 36
Yorkshire +14 5 £622 +8.17% 3
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 North of England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) AWS
4 5 (27.78%) Network Security
4 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
5 4 (22.22%) VPN
5 4 (22.22%) DNS
5 4 (22.22%) Splunk
5 4 (22.22%) SIEM
5 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (22.22%) Ansible
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Terraform
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (16.67%) Kong
6 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Apigee
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Kong
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) Network Security
2 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) DNS
3 4 (22.22%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) HTTP
5 1 (5.56%) DMZ
5 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) Travis CI
2 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (16.67%) JSON
1 3 (16.67%) XML
1 3 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Insider Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
1 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps
1 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (22.22%) SIEM
2 3 (16.67%) API Development
2 3 (16.67%) API Integration
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 3 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 3 (16.67%) Project Management
2 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
2 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 3 (16.67%) Use Case
2 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
1 3 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (11.11%) CISM
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) QA
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (11.11%) NIST
4 1 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.56%) NCSC
4 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Kibana
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) logstash
2 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Nmap
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 3 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.11%) Qualys
4 2 (11.11%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.56%) CA
5 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Symantec