Senior Security Engineer Contracts

Senior Security Engineer
UK

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in the UK 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 547 642 816
Rank change year-on-year +95 +174 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 37 55 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.099% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.10% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 19
10th Percentile £508 £530 £420
25th Percentile £581 £600 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £767 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.21% +39.38% +10.00%
75th Percentile £681 £800 £669
90th Percentile £715 £830 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £767 £538
% change year-on-year -31.51% +42.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Engineer within the UK 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
England +65 26 £650 -16.99% 48
Work from Home +112 24 £650 -17.00% 30
London +58 15 £650 -16.99% 26
UK excluding London +32 9 £525 -31.51% 29
Scotland +50 2 £500 -9.09% 1
North of England +17 2 £450 -42.53% 7
North West +15 2 £450 -42.53% 5
South West +1 2 - - 4
South East - 2 £625 - 3
Midlands +17 1 £550 +2.33% 9
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 3

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (56.76%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (29.73%) Azure
3 10 (27.03%) AWS
3 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
4 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
5 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.22%) Threat Analysis
7 6 (16.22%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (16.22%) Security Operations
7 6 (16.22%) DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Windows
8 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
8 5 (13.51%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Agile
8 5 (13.51%) GCP
8 5 (13.51%) Go
8 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.51%) Open Source
8 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
8 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (13.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
9 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
9 4 (10.81%) Functional Safety
9 4 (10.81%) Safety Engineering
9 4 (10.81%) Static Application Security Testing

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.70%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (2.70%) IaaS
6 1 (2.70%) PaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) LAN
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
3 1 (2.70%) WAN
3 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (8.11%) Finance
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
3 1 (2.70%) Legal
3 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.70%) JSON
1 1 (2.70%) OAuth
1 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.70%) SAML
1 1 (2.70%) XML
1 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.41%) PKI
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.70%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.70%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (16.22%) DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) Security Operations
3 6 (16.22%) Threat Analysis
3 6 (16.22%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (13.51%) Agile
4 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.51%) Open Source
4 5 (13.51%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
5 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
5 4 (10.81%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (10.81%) Safety Engineering
5 4 (10.81%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (8.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (8.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Go
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.70%) CCDP
4 1 (2.70%) CCIE
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) GIAC
4 1 (2.70%) OSCP
4 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Functional Safety
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) SCCM
4 1 (2.70%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) CASB
4 1 (2.70%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Palo Alto
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco
3 3 (8.11%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (5.41%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) CA
5 1 (2.70%) Juniper
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) VMware