Security Engineer Contracts in the North West

Security Engineer
England > North West

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the North West is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 80 144
Rank change year-on-year -34 +64 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 21 74 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.75% 2.46% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 2.59% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 27
10th Percentile £469 £288 £331
25th Percentile £491 £369 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% -7.43% +10.53%
75th Percentile £565 £565 £638
90th Percentile £589 £584 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £83.40 -
England median hourly rate £48.40 £83.40 £59.23
% change year-on-year -41.97% +40.81% +5.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,637 2,853 3,880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.72% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 2,022 2,821
10th Percentile £268 £300 £220
25th Percentile £382 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £575
90th Percentile £670 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 132 161
10th Percentile £11.77 £14.56 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.17 £17.65 £15.72
Median hourly rate £32.90 £28.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +13.36% +38.45%
75th Percentile £47.88 £43.75 £52.56
90th Percentile £71.32 £57.39 £75.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cheshire -21 12 £540 -4.38% 8
Manchester -2 8 £525 +10.53% 8
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 12 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 North West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 7 (33.33%) Degree
3 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (28.57%) CISSP
4 6 (28.57%) Windows
4 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Azure
5 5 (23.81%) AWS
5 5 (23.81%) SIEM
5 5 (23.81%) Linux
5 5 (23.81%) C++
5 5 (23.81%) Change Management
5 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
5 5 (23.81%) Automotive
5 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
6 4 (19.05%) Product Requirements
6 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
6 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (19.05%) Network Security
6 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (19.05%) German Language
6 4 (19.05%) Firewall
6 4 (19.05%) Project Management
6 4 (19.05%) C
6 4 (19.05%) F5
6 4 (19.05%) Requirements Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
1 4 (19.05%) Network Security
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Automotive
3 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 4 (19.05%) German Language
5 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (14.29%) Cyberattack
1 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Insider Threat
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Unix
4 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (23.81%) Change Management
2 5 (23.81%) SIEM
3 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Product Requirements
3 4 (19.05%) Project Management
3 4 (19.05%) Requirements Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (9.52%) OWASP
5 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) C++
2 4 (19.05%) C
3 2 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (28.57%) CISSP
3 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) CCIE
5 2 (9.52%) CCNA
5 2 (9.52%) CCNP
5 2 (9.52%) CCSA
5 2 (9.52%) CISM
6 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.76%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.76%) HP Fortify
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Nmap
1 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.76%) systemd
1 1 (4.76%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) F5
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 2 (9.52%) AlgoSec
4 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
4 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
4 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.52%) Tanium
4 2 (9.52%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.76%) Apple
5 1 (4.76%) CA
5 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.76%) Intel
5 1 (4.76%) Proofpoint
5 1 (4.76%) Qualys
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Symantec