Security Consultant Contracts in the North West

Security Consultant
England > North West

The median Security Consultant daily rate in the North West is £618 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 148 163
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 10 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.38% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.40% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £551 £437 £404
25th Percentile £563 £525 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% -3.30% +1.88%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £632
90th Percentile £684 £650 £645
England median daily rate £625 £600 £555
% change year-on-year +4.17% +8.11% +3.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,031 3,927
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.87% 96.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,172 2,878
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 134 175
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.38 £43.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the North West

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in the North West

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in the North West

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in the North West

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cheshire +11 6 £618 -1.20%
Manchester +11 3 £575 +4.55% 3
Merseyside +16 1 £650 +73.33%
Security Consultant
England

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 North West region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Information Security
2 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (50.00%) NIST
4 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (40.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) Degree
4 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
4 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) ISMS
5 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team Management
5 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
5 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) NCSC
6 2 (20.00%) Databricks
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) AWS

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) ISMS
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security Management
4 2 (20.00%) Security Management
5 1 (10.00%) Information Security Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Management
5 1 (10.00%) OWASP
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (50.00%) NIST
3 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (20.00%) NCSC
6 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Teradata
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft