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 £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 117 201
Rank change year-on-year -41 +84 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 27 90 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.56% 1.65% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.74% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 59 39
10th Percentile £440 £338 £323
25th Percentile £488 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.01% +1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £634
90th Percentile £638 £626 £678
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £83.40 -
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 15 June 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 15 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
North West -34 21 £530 +9.05% 26
Yorkshire +4 5 £625 +8.70% 15
North East +8 1 £475 -44.78% 4
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 North of England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (29.63%) Finance
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
4 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
5 7 (25.93%) SIEM
5 7 (25.93%) Firewall
5 7 (25.93%) Degree
5 7 (25.93%) Project Management
6 6 (22.22%) CISSP
6 6 (22.22%) Windows
7 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
7 5 (18.52%) Linux
7 5 (18.52%) C++
7 5 (18.52%) Change Management
7 5 (18.52%) Automotive
7 5 (18.52%) Docker
7 5 (18.52%) DevOps
7 5 (18.52%) Confluence
7 5 (18.52%) JIRA
7 5 (18.52%) Network Security
7 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
7 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
8 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.81%) German Language
8 4 (14.81%) Requirements Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) F5

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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Apigee
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) Kong
5 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) Network Security
3 4 (14.81%) DNS
4 3 (11.11%) HTTP
4 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (11.11%) VPN
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (11.11%) CircleCI
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
3 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) Travis CI
4 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.70%) Burp Suite
General
1 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Automotive
4 4 (14.81%) German Language
5 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Publishing
7 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (11.11%) JSON
1 3 (11.11%) XML
1 3 (11.11%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) J2EE
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (11.11%) Cyberattack
1 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 3 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Insider Threat
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
4 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) Project Management
3 7 (25.93%) SIEM
4 5 (18.52%) Change Management
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
5 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.81%) Product Requirements
5 4 (14.81%) Requirements Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Agile
6 3 (11.11%) Analytics
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Use Case
6 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) C++
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) C
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) CISSP
3 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) CCIE
5 2 (7.41%) CCNA
5 2 (7.41%) CCNP
5 2 (7.41%) CCSA
5 2 (7.41%) CISM
6 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (7.41%) NIST
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
4 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.70%) NCSC
4 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (14.81%) Progress Chef
1 4 (14.81%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (11.11%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Kibana
2 3 (11.11%) logstash
2 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (3.70%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.70%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Nmap
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.70%) systemd
3 1 (3.70%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) F5
2 4 (14.81%) Splunk
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco
3 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 3 (11.11%) Qualys
3 3 (11.11%) Zscaler
4 2 (7.41%) AlgoSec
4 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.41%) CheckPoint
4 2 (7.41%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.41%) Tanium
5 1 (3.70%) Apple
5 1 (3.70%) CA
5 1 (3.70%) Intel
5 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint
5 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Symantec