Security Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 230 330
Rank change year-on-year -44 +100 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 128 256 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.06% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.13% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 176 136
10th Percentile £417 £378 £306
25th Percentile £425 £456 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +9.45% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £591
90th Percentile £700 £700 £655
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
10th Percentile - £56.50 £47.41
25th Percentile £30.70 £70.00 £51.53
Median hourly rate £55.90 £83.31 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.90% +48.77% +9.27%
75th Percentile £80.85 £83.40 £79.04
90th Percentile £82.39 - £81.85
UK median hourly rate £55.90 £83.31 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.90% +66.62% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,242 22,667 29,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 15,893 20,733
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,165 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +1 49 £450 -16.28% 46
South West +6 29 £600 +14.29% 30
North of England -23 18 £563 -0.44% 41
Midlands +5 17 £650 +19.54% 33
West Midlands +5 16 £650 +18.18% 24
North West -28 13 £525 +2.14% 36
Scotland +26 11 £575 +4.55% 6
East of England +11 6 £800 +93.94% 26
Yorkshire +18 5 £622 +8.17% 3
East Midlands +14 1 - - 9
Wales +1 1 £450 -10.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Security Engineer
UK

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (48.44%) Security Cleared
2 46 (35.94%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (31.25%) Network Security
4 39 (30.47%) DV Cleared
5 35 (27.34%) Azure
6 34 (26.56%) Firewall
7 32 (25.00%) Windows
7 32 (25.00%) PowerShell
8 31 (24.22%) Microsoft
9 29 (22.66%) Python
9 29 (22.66%) SIEM
9 29 (22.66%) Terraform
9 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
10 26 (20.31%) SC Cleared
10 26 (20.31%) AWS
11 25 (19.53%) PKI
11 25 (19.53%) Ansible
12 23 (17.97%) Cloud Security
13 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
14 19 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (14.06%) Incident Response
15 18 (14.06%) Splunk
15 18 (14.06%) Agile
16 15 (11.72%) Migration
16 15 (11.72%) VMware
16 15 (11.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 15 (11.72%) Security Architecture
16 15 (11.72%) Palo Alto
16 15 (11.72%) DevOps
17 14 (10.94%) Finance

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.34%) Azure
2 26 (20.31%) AWS
3 9 (7.03%) Entra ID
3 9 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.91%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (3.91%) CloudFront
4 5 (3.91%) GCP
4 5 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.34%) Apigee
6 3 (2.34%) GitHub
6 3 (2.34%) Kong
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.78%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (31.25%) Network Security
2 34 (26.56%) Firewall
3 13 (10.16%) VPN
4 12 (9.38%) DNS
5 5 (3.91%) DMZ
5 5 (3.91%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.34%) HTTP
7 3 (2.34%) LAN
8 2 (1.56%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.56%) VLAN
8 2 (1.56%) VSAN
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.78%) Internet
9 1 (0.78%) WAN
9 1 (0.78%) Wireless
9 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.34%) Big Data
1 3 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (2.34%) CircleCI
1 3 (2.34%) Git
1 3 (2.34%) GitLab
1 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.34%) JIRA
1 3 (2.34%) Travis CI
2 2 (1.56%) Robot Framework
2 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.78%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.78%) MSI
General
1 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.94%) Finance
4 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.47%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.69%) Automotive
7 5 (3.91%) Retail
8 4 (3.13%) Banking
8 4 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.56%) Military
11 1 (0.78%) Advertising
11 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.91%) OAuth
1 5 (3.91%) OAuth2
1 5 (3.91%) SAML
2 3 (2.34%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.34%) JSON
2 3 (2.34%) XML
2 3 (2.34%) YAML
3 2 (1.56%) Kafka
3 2 (1.56%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.78%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.53%) PKI
2 13 (10.16%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.59%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (5.47%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.69%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.91%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (3.91%) Operational Technology
8 4 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.56%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.56%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.56%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.78%) BYOD
11 1 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.00%) Windows
2 14 (10.94%) Linux
3 13 (10.16%) Unix
4 5 (3.91%) Mac OS
4 5 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.34%) Android
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.56%) zOS
8 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.94%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (22.66%) SIEM
3 23 (17.97%) Cloud Security
4 19 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (14.06%) Agile
5 18 (14.06%) Incident Response
6 15 (11.72%) DevOps
6 15 (11.72%) Migration
6 15 (11.72%) Security Architecture
7 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (7.81%) Security Operations
9 9 (7.03%) Application Security
9 9 (7.03%) CI/CD
9 9 (7.03%) DevSecOps
9 9 (7.03%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (7.03%) Information Security
9 9 (7.03%) Network Architecture
10 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 29 (22.66%) Python
3 3 (2.34%) Bash
3 3 (2.34%) C#
4 2 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 62 (48.44%) Security Cleared
2 39 (30.47%) DV Cleared
3 26 (20.31%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) CISSP
5 6 (4.69%) CISM
5 6 (4.69%) Degree
6 5 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.34%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.56%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.56%) CASP
8 2 (1.56%) GCED
8 2 (1.56%) GIAC
8 2 (1.56%) GSEC
8 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.56%) VCAP
8 2 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.78%) CISA
9 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.78%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (10.16%) NIST
3 7 (5.47%) NCSC
4 3 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (2.34%) JSP 440
4 3 (2.34%) QA
5 2 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.56%) GDPR
5 2 (1.56%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.56%) RMADS
6 1 (0.78%) COBIT
6 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.78%) GRC
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) ISA99
System Software
1 14 (10.94%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.38%) VMware NSX
3 8 (6.25%) Docker
3 8 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.56%) vSphere
5 1 (0.78%) Firmware
5 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (22.66%) Terraform
2 25 (19.53%) Ansible
3 10 (7.81%) SCCM
4 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.13%) Puppet
5 4 (3.13%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 3 (2.34%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.34%) Grafana
6 3 (2.34%) Kibana
6 3 (2.34%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.34%) logstash
6 3 (2.34%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.56%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.56%) RSA Archer
7 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.78%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.78%) CASB
8 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.06%) Splunk
3 15 (11.72%) Palo Alto
3 15 (11.72%) VMware
4 7 (5.47%) Dell
4 7 (5.47%) F5
5 6 (4.69%) Cisco
5 6 (4.69%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.13%) ArcSight
6 4 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.13%) Qualys
7 3 (2.34%) LogRhythm
7 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.34%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.56%) Citrix
8 2 (1.56%) Okta
8 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.56%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.56%) TippingPoint
8 2 (1.56%) Trend Micro