Security Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 184 315
Rank change year-on-year -40 +131 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 131 343 354
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.85% 1.33% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.39% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 244 242
10th Percentile £425 £450 £306
25th Percentile £500 £513 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £655
90th Percentile £766 £775 £718
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - £43.65 £26.25
25th Percentile - - £30.00
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -39.85%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - - £59.66
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Engineer.

Security Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Security Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Engineer.

Security Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (40.46%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (35.11%) Azure
3 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
4 28 (21.37%) Windows
4 28 (21.37%) Finance
5 27 (20.61%) AWS
6 25 (19.08%) SIEM
7 23 (17.56%) Firewall
7 23 (17.56%) Active Directory
8 21 (16.03%) Network Security
8 21 (16.03%) Social Skills
8 21 (16.03%) Cloud Security
9 20 (15.27%) Incident Response
9 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (15.27%) Vulnerability Management
9 20 (15.27%) Security Cleared
10 19 (14.50%) Entra ID
11 18 (13.74%) SC Cleared
11 18 (13.74%) CISSP
11 18 (13.74%) Security Posture
12 17 (12.98%) Python
12 17 (12.98%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (12.21%) DevOps
13 16 (12.21%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (12.21%) DevSecOps
13 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
14 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
14 15 (11.45%) Agile
15 14 (10.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.11%) Azure
2 27 (20.61%) AWS
3 19 (14.50%) Entra ID
4 16 (12.21%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.87%) GCP
6 7 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (5.34%) CloudFront
7 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudTrail
8 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.82%) GitHub
8 5 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.29%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.29%) IaaS
10 3 (2.29%) SaaS
10 3 (2.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.56%) Firewall
2 21 (16.03%) Network Security
3 13 (9.92%) DNS
4 9 (6.87%) VPN
5 3 (2.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.53%) HTTP
6 2 (1.53%) Internet
6 2 (1.53%) LAN
6 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.76%) DKIM
7 1 (0.76%) DMARC
7 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.76%) NGFW
7 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.53%) Power BI
3 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.05%) Git
2 4 (3.05%) JIRA
3 3 (2.29%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.29%) GitLab
4 2 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.53%) Snyk
4 2 (1.53%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
General
1 28 (21.37%) Finance
2 21 (16.03%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.87%) Banking
5 8 (6.11%) Retail
6 7 (5.34%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.82%) Automotive
9 4 (3.05%) Electronics
10 3 (2.29%) Law
10 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.53%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Local Government
12 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) OAuth
1 7 (5.34%) SAML
2 6 (4.58%) OAuth2
2 6 (4.58%) YAML
3 3 (2.29%) JSON
3 3 (2.29%) XML
4 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.53%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.53%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.76%) EDI
5 1 (0.76%) LDAP
5 1 (0.76%) RESTful
5 1 (0.76%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.76%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Security Posture
2 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.87%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (5.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (4.58%) Cyberattack
6 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.29%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.53%) IoT
9 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.53%) PKI
10 1 (0.76%) BYOD
10 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.37%) Windows
2 11 (8.40%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.11%) Linux
4 6 (4.58%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.46%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (19.08%) SIEM
3 21 (16.03%) Cloud Security
4 20 (15.27%) Incident Response
4 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (15.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 17 (12.98%) Penetration Testing
6 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
6 16 (12.21%) DevOps
6 16 (12.21%) DevSecOps
7 15 (11.45%) Agile
8 14 (10.69%) Application Security
8 14 (10.69%) Security Operations
9 13 (9.92%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 12 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (9.16%) Threat Detection
11 11 (8.40%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (7.63%) Information Security
12 10 (7.63%) Task Automation
13 9 (6.87%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.98%) Python
2 13 (9.92%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.58%) Go
4 5 (3.82%) Bash
5 4 (3.05%) SQL
6 3 (2.29%) Perl
7 2 (1.53%) Java
7 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.76%) C#
8 1 (0.76%) C++
8 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.74%) CISSP
2 18 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.63%) CISM
4 8 (6.11%) Degree
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.82%) CEH
5 5 (3.82%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.53%) CCSP
8 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.53%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.53%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.53%) RHCE
8 2 (1.53%) SANS
9 1 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (9.16%) NIST
3 5 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.82%) NCSC
4 4 (3.05%) Automotive SPICE
4 4 (3.05%) AUTOSAR
4 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.53%) COBIT
6 2 (1.53%) GDPR
6 2 (1.53%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.53%) QA
7 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.76%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (17.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.87%) Docker
3 4 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.53%) vSphere
5 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.63%) SCCM
3 9 (6.87%) Terraform
4 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.82%) QRadar
6 4 (3.05%) Functional Safety
6 4 (3.05%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (2.29%) Nessus
7 3 (2.29%) Puppet
8 2 (1.53%) Ansible
8 2 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.53%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.53%) Grafana
8 2 (1.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.53%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.53%) Kibana
8 2 (1.53%) logstash
8 2 (1.53%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.16%) Qualys
3 11 (8.40%) Splunk
4 9 (6.87%) VMware
5 7 (5.34%) ArcSight
5 7 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (5.34%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.82%) CA
6 5 (3.82%) Cisco
6 5 (3.82%) Rapid7
7 4 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.05%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.29%) Google
8 3 (2.29%) Okta
9 2 (1.53%) Carbon Black
9 2 (1.53%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.53%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.53%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.53%) Symantec
9 2 (1.53%) Veracode