Security Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 122 148
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 15 28 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.57% 0.99% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.05% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 15
10th Percentile £413 £470 £242
25th Percentile £415 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +4.76% +31.58%
75th Percentile £558 £631 £575
90th Percentile £597 £695 £618
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +21.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,417 2,678 3,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.50% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 1,846 2,336
10th Percentile £213 £300 £201
25th Percentile £370 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 78 100
10th Percentile £15.55 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.25 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +167.47% -17.05%
75th Percentile £62.25 £66.16 £23.56
90th Percentile £85.57 £79.19 £58.37
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.46% +143.49% -20.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire -9 11 £498 -9.55% 12
Buckinghamshire +11 4 £456 -9.78% 3
Security Engineer
South East

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
1 5 (33.33%) ITSM
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 5 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Change Control
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (20.00%) Network Security
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Blue Coat
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Juniper
3 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (20.00%) DMZ
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (20.00%) DMZ
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) VSAN
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Automotive
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITSM
1 5 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Change Control
3 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Energy Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Release Management
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (6.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (6.67%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) VCAP
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) COBIT
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) RSA Archer
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Blue Coat
2 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (20.00%) Juniper
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Netskope
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce