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 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 213 193 298
Rank change year-on-year -20 +105 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 131 318 370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 1.31% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.38% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 236 265
10th Percentile £425 £415 £313
25th Percentile £488 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £713 £783 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +62.50% -52.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £59.02
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
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 13,614 23,092 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,191 16,381 30,896
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 531 571
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +37.60% +64.39%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.23 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

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 3 June 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (36.64%) Azure
2 46 (35.11%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (23.66%) Finance
4 30 (22.90%) SIEM
5 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
6 28 (21.37%) AWS
7 26 (19.85%) Security Cleared
7 26 (19.85%) Cloud Security
8 25 (19.08%) Network Security
9 24 (18.32%) SC Cleared
9 24 (18.32%) Windows
9 24 (18.32%) Firewall
10 23 (17.56%) Active Directory
11 21 (16.03%) CISSP
11 21 (16.03%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (14.50%) Entra ID
13 18 (13.74%) Incident Response
14 17 (12.98%) Security Posture
14 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.98%) CI/CD
14 17 (12.98%) DNS
14 17 (12.98%) Penetration Testing
15 15 (11.45%) Python
15 15 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (11.45%) DevSecOps
15 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
16 14 (10.69%) Social Skills
16 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
17 13 (9.92%) DevOps
17 13 (9.92%) VPN

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 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.64%) Azure
2 28 (21.37%) AWS
3 19 (14.50%) Entra ID
4 15 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (7.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (6.87%) GCP
7 7 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (5.34%) CloudFront
8 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (3.82%) GitHub
9 5 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.05%) SaaS
11 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.29%) IaaS
11 3 (2.29%) Serverless
12 2 (1.53%) Kong
12 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.08%) Network Security
2 24 (18.32%) Firewall
3 17 (12.98%) DNS
4 13 (9.92%) VPN
5 4 (3.05%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (2.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (2.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.53%) BGP
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.53%) DMZ
7 2 (1.53%) HTTP
7 2 (1.53%) Internet
7 2 (1.53%) Multicast
7 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.76%) LAN
8 1 (0.76%) WAN
8 1 (0.76%) Wireless
8 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.58%) 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%) JIRA
3 3 (2.29%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.29%) Git
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 31 (23.66%) Finance
2 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.16%) Banking
4 8 (6.11%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.11%) Retail
5 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.53%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Automotive
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) OAuth
1 7 (5.34%) SAML
2 6 (4.58%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.29%) JSON
3 3 (2.29%) XML
3 3 (2.29%) YAML
4 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.53%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.53%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.76%) EDI
5 1 (0.76%) RESTful
5 1 (0.76%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.76%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Security Posture
2 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (4.58%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.53%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) IoT
7 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.53%) PKI
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) Windows
2 9 (6.87%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.34%) Linux
3 7 (5.34%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.11%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (22.90%) SIEM
3 26 (19.85%) Cloud Security
4 21 (16.03%) Vulnerability Management
5 18 (13.74%) Incident Response
6 17 (12.98%) CI/CD
6 17 (12.98%) Penetration Testing
6 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (11.45%) DevSecOps
8 13 (9.92%) Application Security
8 13 (9.92%) DevOps
8 13 (9.92%) Threat Detection
9 12 (9.16%) Identity Access Management
9 12 (9.16%) Security Operations
9 12 (9.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 11 (8.40%) Task Automation
11 10 (7.63%) Agile
11 10 (7.63%) Information Security
11 10 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (6.87%) DDoS Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.45%) Python
2 11 (8.40%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.58%) Go
4 5 (3.82%) Bash
5 4 (3.05%) SQL
6 2 (1.53%) Bicep
6 2 (1.53%) Java
6 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.53%) Perl
7 1 (0.76%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) C++
7 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.03%) CISSP
4 10 (7.63%) CISM
5 7 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (5.34%) Degree
6 6 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.58%) CEH
7 5 (3.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (3.05%) CCIE
8 4 (3.05%) CCNA
8 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.29%) CCNP
9 3 (2.29%) CCSA
9 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.53%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (9.92%) NIST
2 5 (3.82%) NCSC
3 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.53%) COBIT
4 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.53%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.53%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.76%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (17.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.87%) Docker
3 4 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.63%) SCCM
1 10 (7.63%) Terraform
2 9 (6.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.82%) QRadar
4 4 (3.05%) Functional Safety
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.05%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.29%) Puppet
6 2 (1.53%) Ansible
6 2 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.53%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.53%) Grafana
6 2 (1.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.53%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.53%) Kibana
6 2 (1.53%) logstash
6 2 (1.53%) Nessus
6 2 (1.53%) Nexpose
6 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) Qualys
3 11 (8.40%) Cisco
3 11 (8.40%) Palo Alto
3 11 (8.40%) Splunk
4 10 (7.63%) VMware
5 7 (5.34%) ArcSight
5 7 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (5.34%) F5
5 7 (5.34%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.58%) CA
7 5 (3.82%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.05%) Rapid7
8 4 (3.05%) Zscaler
9 3 (2.29%) AlgoSec
9 3 (2.29%) Google
10 2 (1.53%) Carbon Black
10 2 (1.53%) LogRhythm
10 2 (1.53%) Okta
10 2 (1.53%) Symantec