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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 395 523
Rank change year-on-year +47 +128 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 192 281 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.59% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 185 171
10th Percentile £468 £463 £425
25th Percentile £525 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £650
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £610 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.55% -
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 34,367 47,420 67,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,815 33,680 48,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,403 1,897
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

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 3 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 3 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 +38 96 £638 +8.97% 26
South East +15 49 £625 - 14
South West +18 15 £625 +8.70% 3
North of England +18 13 £593 +7.73% 7
West Midlands +24 11 £545 -0.91% 3
Midlands +22 11 £545 -0.91% 3
North West +14 10 £618 +12.27% 3
East of England +16 3 £600 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire +13 3 £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 3 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.

1 108 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (31.25%) NIST
3 59 (30.73%) Information Security
4 57 (29.69%) Security Cleared
5 49 (25.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (22.92%) Finance
6 44 (22.92%) Cloud Security
7 39 (20.31%) Azure
8 36 (18.75%) Risk Management
8 36 (18.75%) Social Skills
9 35 (18.23%) CISSP
10 34 (17.71%) DV Cleared
11 30 (15.63%) SC Cleared
11 30 (15.63%) CISM
12 26 (13.54%) SIEM
13 25 (13.02%) Identity Access Management
14 23 (11.98%) Application Security
15 22 (11.46%) GRC
15 22 (11.46%) DevSecOps
15 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
16 21 (10.94%) AWS
17 20 (10.42%) Firewall
17 20 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
18 19 (9.90%) Security Management
18 19 (9.90%) Network Security
19 18 (9.38%) Security Architecture
19 18 (9.38%) Vulnerability Management
19 18 (9.38%) Public Sector
20 17 (8.85%) NCSC
20 17 (8.85%) DevOps

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 (1.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.31%) Azure
2 21 (10.94%) AWS
3 11 (5.73%) GCP
4 10 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.65%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.60%) IaaS
7 4 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.04%) Akamai
8 2 (1.04%) GitHub
8 2 (1.04%) OCI
8 2 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.52%) PaaS
9 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.52%) SaaS
9 1 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.42%) Firewall
2 19 (9.90%) Network Security
3 11 (5.73%) WAN
4 9 (4.69%) SD-WAN
5 6 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.60%) DNS
7 4 (2.08%) Internet
7 4 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.08%) VPN
8 2 (1.04%) Broadband
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.04%) NX-OS
8 2 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.52%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) SAP BW
2 4 (2.08%) Big Data
3 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.52%) Power BI
4 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
1 2 (1.04%) JIRA
1 2 (1.04%) RStudio
General
1 44 (22.92%) Finance
2 36 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.77%) Banking
5 9 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.60%) German Language
8 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.08%) Electronics
9 4 (2.08%) French Language
9 4 (2.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.56%) Law
10 3 (1.56%) Police
11 2 (1.04%) Front Office
11 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.52%) Back Office
12 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.77%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.69%) Operational Technology
3 9 (4.69%) PKI
4 7 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.13%) IoT
6 5 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.60%) SCADA
7 3 (1.56%) NHS
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.52%) CSOC
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.81%) Windows
2 10 (5.21%) Linux
3 7 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (30.73%) Information Security
3 44 (22.92%) Cloud Security
4 36 (18.75%) Risk Management
5 26 (13.54%) SIEM
6 25 (13.02%) Identity Access Management
7 23 (11.98%) Application Security
8 22 (11.46%) DevSecOps
9 20 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
10 19 (9.90%) Security Management
11 18 (9.38%) Security Architecture
11 18 (9.38%) Vulnerability Management
12 17 (8.85%) DevOps
13 16 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (7.81%) Information Security Management
14 15 (7.81%) OWASP
14 15 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (7.81%) SDLC
15 14 (7.29%) Data Protection
15 14 (7.29%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.21%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.04%) R
4 1 (0.52%) C#
4 1 (0.52%) Java
4 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.23%) CISSP
3 34 (17.71%) DV Cleared
4 30 (15.63%) CISM
4 30 (15.63%) SC Cleared
5 17 (8.85%) Degree
6 15 (7.81%) CRISC
7 13 (6.77%) CISA
7 13 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (5.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (3.65%) CISMP
10 5 (2.60%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (2.60%) CLAS
11 4 (2.08%) ISACA
12 3 (1.56%) CCSP
13 1 (0.52%) CCNA
13 1 (0.52%) CCNP
13 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (31.25%) NIST
2 49 (25.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (11.46%) GRC
4 17 (8.85%) NCSC
4 17 (8.85%) PCI DSS
5 15 (7.81%) COBIT
6 14 (7.29%) GDPR
6 14 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (3.65%) NIST 800
7 7 (3.65%) RMADS
8 6 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (2.60%) ISO 31000
9 5 (2.60%) JSP 440
10 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.52%) COSO
13 1 (0.52%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.52%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 4 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Docker
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.08%) Terraform
2 3 (1.56%) Nessus
3 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.33%) SAP
3 10 (5.21%) ArcSight
4 6 (3.13%) Cisco
5 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.08%) Google
6 4 (2.08%) McAfee
6 4 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.56%) ForeScout
7 3 (1.56%) Juniper
7 3 (1.56%) Okta
7 3 (1.56%) Oracle
7 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.56%) VMware
8 2 (1.04%) AlgoSec
8 2 (1.04%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.04%) Databricks
8 2 (1.04%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.04%) Teradata
9 1 (0.52%) IBM