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 £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 205 351
Rank change year-on-year -53 +146 -92
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 142 261 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 1.15% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.22% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 185 128
10th Percentile £415 £359 £306
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +1.20% +6.14%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £630
90th Percentile £720 £700 £679
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 5
10th Percentile - £66.00 £55.82
25th Percentile £30.70 £83.31 £62.25
Median hourly rate £48.40 £83.40 £73.76
Median % change year-on-year -41.97% +13.07% +31.19%
75th Percentile £70.63 - £81.23
90th Percentile £76.25 - £83.08
UK median hourly rate £48.40 £83.40 £45.00
% change year-on-year -41.97% +85.33% -21.74%

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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
South East +8 59 £450 -14.29% 53
South West -5 26 £600 +14.29% 21
North of England -41 21 £525 +2.79% 43
Midlands -5 17 £650 +18.18% 37
West Midlands -11 14 £650 +1.96% 16
North West -38 14 £525 +8.02% 26
Scotland +31 12 £575 +4.55% 11
East of England +6 8 £300 -36.84% 28
Yorkshire +11 6 £624 +8.43% 14
East Midlands +10 3 £685 +32.11% 21
Wales +11 2 £531 -7.61% 4
North East +10 1 £475 -43.89% 4
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 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (47.18%) Security Cleared
2 54 (38.03%) Cybersecurity
3 47 (33.10%) DV Cleared
4 42 (29.58%) PowerShell
5 37 (26.06%) Python
6 36 (25.35%) Terraform
7 35 (24.65%) SIEM
8 34 (23.94%) Network Security
8 34 (23.94%) Azure
8 34 (23.94%) Firewall
9 32 (22.54%) Windows
9 32 (22.54%) Microsoft
10 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
11 30 (21.13%) PKI
11 30 (21.13%) Ansible
12 25 (17.61%) AWS
13 23 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
13 23 (16.20%) Cloud Security
14 22 (15.49%) Incident Response
14 22 (15.49%) SC Cleared
15 21 (14.79%) Splunk
16 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (12.68%) Agile
18 17 (11.97%) DevOps
18 17 (11.97%) NIST
18 17 (11.97%) Palo Alto
19 16 (11.27%) Security Architecture
20 15 (10.56%) Linux
20 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 14 (9.86%) VPN

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 (2.11%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) CMS
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.94%) Azure
2 25 (17.61%) AWS
3 8 (5.63%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.52%) CloudFront
6 5 (3.52%) GCP
6 5 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (2.11%) Apigee
8 3 (2.11%) GitHub
8 3 (2.11%) Kong
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.94%) Firewall
1 34 (23.94%) Network Security
2 14 (9.86%) VPN
3 10 (7.04%) DNS
4 3 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.11%) DMZ
4 3 (2.11%) Extranet
4 3 (2.11%) HTTP
4 3 (2.11%) Internet
4 3 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.41%) Intranet
5 2 (1.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.41%) VSAN
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.70%) LAN
6 1 (0.70%) WAN
6 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.11%) Big Data
2 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Git
2 3 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (2.11%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.11%) GitLab
2 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Travis CI
3 2 (1.41%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.70%) MSI
General
1 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.45%) Finance
5 9 (6.34%) Automotive
5 9 (6.34%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.63%) Banking
7 5 (3.52%) Retail
8 4 (2.82%) German Language
8 4 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Advertising
10 2 (1.41%) Military
11 1 (0.70%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.52%) Kafka
1 5 (3.52%) OAuth
1 5 (3.52%) OAuth2
1 5 (3.52%) SAML
2 4 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.11%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.11%) JSON
3 3 (2.11%) XML
3 3 (2.11%) YAML
4 2 (1.41%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.70%) .NET
5 1 (0.70%) J2EE
5 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 30 (21.13%) PKI
2 13 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.75%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.63%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.23%) Operational Technology
6 6 (4.23%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.23%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (3.52%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.82%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.11%) SCADA
10 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.41%) CCTV
10 2 (1.41%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.41%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.41%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.54%) Windows
2 15 (10.56%) Linux
3 11 (7.75%) Unix
4 5 (3.52%) Mac OS
4 5 (3.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.82%) zOS
6 3 (2.11%) Android
6 3 (2.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.03%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (24.65%) SIEM
3 23 (16.20%) Cloud Security
4 22 (15.49%) Incident Response
5 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (12.68%) Agile
7 17 (11.97%) DevOps
8 16 (11.27%) Security Architecture
9 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (7.75%) DevSecOps
10 11 (7.75%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (7.75%) Information Security
11 10 (7.04%) CI/CD
11 10 (7.04%) Vulnerability Management
12 9 (6.34%) Application Security
12 9 (6.34%) Data Security
12 9 (6.34%) Security Operations
12 9 (6.34%) Static Application Security Testing
13 8 (5.63%) Migration
13 8 (5.63%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (29.58%) PowerShell
2 37 (26.06%) Python
3 4 (2.82%) C
3 4 (2.82%) C#
3 4 (2.82%) C++
4 3 (2.11%) Bash
4 3 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.70%) Bicep
5 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 67 (47.18%) Security Cleared
2 47 (33.10%) DV Cleared
3 22 (15.49%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.04%) Degree
5 9 (6.34%) CISSP
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.82%) CISM
8 3 (2.11%) CCIE
8 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.41%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.41%) CCNA
9 2 (1.41%) CCNP
9 2 (1.41%) CCSA
9 2 (1.41%) GCED
9 2 (1.41%) GIAC
9 2 (1.41%) GSEC
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.41%) VCAP
9 2 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.97%) NIST
2 14 (9.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.93%) NCSC
4 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 5 (3.52%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.11%) GDPR
5 3 (2.11%) ISA99
5 3 (2.11%) QA
6 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.41%) GRC
6 2 (1.41%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.70%) COBIT
7 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.70%) RMADS
System Software
1 13 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.34%) VMware NSX
3 8 (5.63%) Docker
4 5 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (25.35%) Terraform
2 30 (21.13%) Ansible
3 9 (6.34%) SCCM
4 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.82%) Kibana
5 4 (2.82%) logstash
5 4 (2.82%) Puppet
5 4 (2.82%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 3 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.11%) Grafana
6 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.41%) RSA Archer
7 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.70%) CASB
8 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.70%) Nessus
8 1 (0.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 32 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.79%) Splunk
3 17 (11.97%) Palo Alto
4 12 (8.45%) Cisco
4 12 (8.45%) VMware
5 8 (5.63%) F5
5 8 (5.63%) Qualys
6 7 (4.93%) Dell
6 7 (4.93%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.23%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.52%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (3.52%) LogRhythm
9 4 (2.82%) ArcSight
10 3 (2.11%) Blue Coat
10 3 (2.11%) Juniper
10 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.11%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.41%) AlgoSec
11 2 (1.41%) Citrix
11 2 (1.41%) Tanium