Security Consultant Contracts in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 394 528
Rank change year-on-year +37 +134 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 188 274 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.57% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.60% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 183 166
10th Percentile £453 £460 £425
25th Percentile £525 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.73% +3.18%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £823 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £601 £575 £563
% change year-on-year +4.57% +2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £83.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £83.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +108.13% -15.79%

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 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in England

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 Security Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +48 92 £625 +5.49% 20
South East +16 52 £625 - 12
South West +11 16 £625 +4.17% 2
North of England +13 11 £618 +12.27% 8
West Midlands +22 10 £515 -6.36% 3
Midlands +18 10 £515 -6.36% 3
North West +14 9 £625 +13.64% 4
East of England +10 3 £600 +9.09%
Yorkshire +6 2 £575 -4.17% 4
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 Security Consultant in the job title.

1 104 (55.32%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (31.38%) NIST
3 56 (29.79%) Information Security
4 55 (29.26%) Security Cleared
5 45 (23.94%) Finance
6 44 (23.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (22.87%) Cloud Security
8 37 (19.68%) Azure
8 37 (19.68%) Risk Management
9 36 (19.15%) Social Skills
10 34 (18.09%) DV Cleared
11 31 (16.49%) CISSP
12 28 (14.89%) SC Cleared
13 27 (14.36%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (13.83%) CISM
14 26 (13.83%) SIEM
15 23 (12.23%) Application Security
16 21 (11.17%) DevSecOps
17 20 (10.64%) GRC
17 20 (10.64%) Network Security
17 20 (10.64%) AWS
17 20 (10.64%) Firewall
17 20 (10.64%) Microsoft
17 20 (10.64%) Penetration Testing
18 18 (9.57%) SAP
18 18 (9.57%) Security Architecture
18 18 (9.57%) Vulnerability Management
19 17 (9.04%) PCI DSS
19 17 (9.04%) Degree
20 16 (8.51%) COBIT

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.06%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) SAP GRC
1 3 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (19.68%) Azure
2 20 (10.64%) AWS
3 9 (4.79%) GCP
3 9 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (2.66%) IaaS
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.06%) Akamai
7 2 (1.06%) GitHub
7 2 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.53%) OCI
8 1 (0.53%) PaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.53%) SaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.64%) Firewall
1 20 (10.64%) Network Security
2 12 (6.38%) WAN
3 9 (4.79%) SD-WAN
4 6 (3.19%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (2.66%) DNS
6 4 (2.13%) Internet
6 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.13%) VPN
7 2 (1.06%) Broadband
7 2 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.06%) NX-OS
7 2 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.53%) LAN
8 1 (0.53%) Modbus
8 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.19%) SAP BW
2 4 (2.13%) Big Data
3 2 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.53%) Power BI
4 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
1 2 (1.06%) JIRA
1 2 (1.06%) RStudio
General
1 45 (23.94%) Finance
2 36 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.91%) Banking
5 9 (4.79%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.66%) German Language
7 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.13%) Electronics
8 4 (2.13%) French Language
8 4 (2.13%) Marketing
9 3 (1.60%) Police
10 2 (1.06%) Front Office
10 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Law
10 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.60%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.06%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Kafka
3 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.98%) Management Information System
1 15 (7.98%) Security Posture
2 9 (4.79%) Operational Technology
2 9 (4.79%) PKI
3 7 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.19%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.19%) IoT
5 5 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.66%) SCADA
6 3 (1.60%) NHS
6 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.06%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.06%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.53%) CSOC
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.53%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.53%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.98%) Windows
2 10 (5.32%) Linux
3 7 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (55.32%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (29.79%) Information Security
3 43 (22.87%) Cloud Security
4 37 (19.68%) Risk Management
5 27 (14.36%) Identity Access Management
6 26 (13.83%) SIEM
7 23 (12.23%) Application Security
8 21 (11.17%) DevSecOps
9 20 (10.64%) Penetration Testing
10 18 (9.57%) Security Architecture
10 18 (9.57%) Vulnerability Management
11 16 (8.51%) DevOps
11 16 (8.51%) Security Management
12 15 (7.98%) OWASP
12 15 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (7.45%) Risk Assessment
13 14 (7.45%) SDLC
14 12 (6.38%) Agile
14 12 (6.38%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.32%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.72%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.06%) R
4 1 (0.53%) C#
4 1 (0.53%) Java
4 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (29.26%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.09%) DV Cleared
3 31 (16.49%) CISSP
4 28 (14.89%) SC Cleared
5 26 (13.83%) CISM
6 17 (9.04%) Degree
7 15 (7.98%) CRISC
8 13 (6.91%) CISA
9 12 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (5.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (3.72%) CISMP
12 5 (2.66%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (2.66%) CLAS
13 4 (2.13%) ISACA
14 3 (1.60%) CCSP
15 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
16 1 (0.53%) CEH
16 1 (0.53%) CSSLP
16 1 (0.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (31.38%) NIST
2 44 (23.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (10.64%) GRC
4 17 (9.04%) PCI DSS
5 16 (8.51%) COBIT
6 14 (7.45%) GDPR
6 14 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 13 (6.91%) NCSC
8 9 (4.79%) RMADS
9 7 (3.72%) NIST 800
10 5 (2.66%) ISO 31000
10 5 (2.66%) JSP 440
11 4 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (1.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (1.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (1.06%) COSO
13 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.53%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.53%) ISA99
System Software
1 4 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.06%) Docker
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.13%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) Nessus
3 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.57%) SAP
3 10 (5.32%) ArcSight
4 6 (3.19%) Cisco
5 4 (2.13%) Google
5 4 (2.13%) McAfee
5 4 (2.13%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.60%) ForeScout
6 3 (1.60%) Juniper
6 3 (1.60%) Okta
6 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.60%) VMware
7 2 (1.06%) AlgoSec
7 2 (1.06%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.06%) Databricks
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle
7 2 (1.06%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.06%) Splunk
7 2 (1.06%) Teradata