Security Engineer Contracts in the South West

Security Engineer
England > South West

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the South West is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 124 150
Rank change year-on-year -3 +26 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 26 38 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.80% 1.12% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.21% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 8
10th Percentile £533 £445 £535
25th Percentile - £463 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -14.29% +28.95%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £686
90th Percentile £713 £705 £719
England median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 3
10th Percentile - £63.00 £71.03
25th Percentile £62.50 £73.33 £74.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 £83.31 £81.23
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +2.56% +224.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £83.40 £82.77
90th Percentile - - £83.69
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
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,009 3,150 3,510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 92.62% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 2,337 2,541
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 248 211
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.92 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +41.91% +6.35%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.30
England median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wiltshire +8 14 £600 +14.29% 3
Bristol +7 6 £694 -9.47% 4
Somerset +1 3 £700 +43.59% 5
Dorset +8 1 - -
Devon -3 1 £353 -11.88% 2
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 3 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 South West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (46.15%) SIEM
3 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 9 (34.62%) NIST
5 8 (30.77%) Cloud Security
5 8 (30.77%) Network Security
5 8 (30.77%) AWS
6 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
7 6 (23.08%) Security Architecture
7 6 (23.08%) Splunk
7 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
7 6 (23.08%) Azure
7 6 (23.08%) SOAR
8 5 (19.23%) Security Posture
8 5 (19.23%) NCSC
8 5 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
8 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (19.23%) Firewall
9 4 (15.38%) Analytics
9 4 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (15.38%) Degree
9 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (15.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 4 (15.38%) Threat Detection
9 4 (15.38%) Terraform
9 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Network Security
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (3.85%) Internet
3 1 (3.85%) WAN
General
1 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
1 5 (19.23%) Security Posture
2 4 (15.38%) Operational Technology
2 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.54%) SCADA
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (46.15%) SIEM
3 8 (30.77%) Cloud Security
4 6 (23.08%) Security Architecture
4 6 (23.08%) SOAR
5 5 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 4 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (15.38%) Log Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Threat Detection
6 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 3 (11.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Degree
5 2 (7.69%) CISM
5 2 (7.69%) CISSP
6 1 (3.85%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (3.85%) CISA
6 1 (3.85%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) NIST
2 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (19.23%) NCSC
3 3 (11.54%) ISA99
3 3 (11.54%) NIST 800
4 2 (7.69%) GDPR
5 1 (3.85%) JSP 440
5 1 (3.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
1 4 (15.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Splunk
3 3 (11.54%) Dell
3 3 (11.54%) LogRhythm
3 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) ArcSight
5 1 (3.85%) Okta
5 1 (3.85%) Qualys
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat