Lead Security Consultant Contracts in England

Lead Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Lead Security Consultant daily rate in England is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 657 775
Rank change year-on-year +111 +118 -158
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Security Consultant 4 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.016% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.017% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £675 £523 £534
25th Percentile £713 £556 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £625 £608
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +2.88% +10.45%
75th Percentile £838 £706 £725
90th Percentile £875 £748 £731
UK median daily rate £775 £700 £608
% change year-on-year +10.71% +15.23% +10.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Lead Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Security Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Security Consultant in England

Lead Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Security Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Security Consultant in England

Lead Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Security Consultant in England

Lead Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Security Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
South East +18 3 £650 - 1
London +98 1 £900 +44.00% 1
Lead Security Consultant
UK

Lead Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Lead Security Consultant 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 England region featuring Lead Security Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (50.00%) COBIT
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) ISACA
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike

Lead Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) COBIT
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk