Security Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Security Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £650, 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 98 91 169
Rank change year-on-year -7 +78 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 13 38 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.64% 1.72% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.82% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 4
10th Percentile £603 £343 £273
25th Percentile £625 £513 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +31.44% -8.71%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £542
90th Percentile - £750 £550
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,870 2,090 3,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 94.44% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,426 2,483
10th Percentile £250 £260 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 63 67
10th Percentile £12.02 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.75 £14.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39.69 £28.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.75 £24.05
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry +14 5 £650 +23.81% 1
Birmingham +6 4 £600 +9.09% 12
Herefordshire - 4 £800 -
Security Engineer
England

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

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 West Midlands region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Network Security
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
3 8 (61.54%) SIEM
4 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
4 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
4 7 (53.85%) Cloud Security
5 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
5 6 (46.15%) Azure
5 6 (46.15%) AWS
5 6 (46.15%) Data Security
5 6 (46.15%) Finance
6 5 (38.46%) Retail
6 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (38.46%) VPN
6 5 (38.46%) DNS
6 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
6 5 (38.46%) SAML
6 5 (38.46%) OAuth
6 5 (38.46%) Defensive Programming
6 5 (38.46%) CloudFront
6 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (38.46%) OAuth2
6 5 (38.46%) Docker
6 5 (38.46%) Application Security
6 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
6 5 (38.46%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
6 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
6 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) CloudFront
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Network Security
2 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth2
1 5 (38.46%) SAML
2 3 (23.08%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 4 (30.77%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (30.77%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (23.08%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (15.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Android
3 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) SIEM
2 7 (53.85%) Cloud Security
3 6 (46.15%) Data Security
3 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
4 5 (38.46%) Application Security
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (38.46%) Defensive Programming
4 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
4 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
4 5 (38.46%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 4 (30.77%) Data Management
5 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
3 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) BC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) CASP
5 1 (7.69%) CCIE
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) CCNP
5 1 (7.69%) CCSA
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
5 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.69%) GCED
5 1 (7.69%) GIAC
5 1 (7.69%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) F5
1 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) AlgoSec
2 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) LogRhythm
2 1 (7.69%) Qualys
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) TippingPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Trend Micro