Security Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 321 395
Rank change year-on-year +26 +74 -79
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 99 130 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.59% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 82 73
10th Percentile £468 £419 £403
25th Percentile £525 £493 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% -5.17% +16.00%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £688
90th Percentile £679 £706 £748
UK median daily rate £618 £565 £563
% change year-on-year +9.29% +0.44% +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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +22 52 £625 - 13
South West +17 16 £625 +4.17% 2
North of England +21 11 £618 +12.27% 7
Midlands +15 10 £515 -6.36% 4
West Midlands +12 10 £515 -6.36% 4
North West +18 9 £625 +13.64% 3
Scotland +33 7 £570 +32.87% 5
East of England +15 3 £600 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire +11 2 £575 -4.17% 4
Security Consultant
UK

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 59 (59.60%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (48.48%) Security Cleared
3 30 (30.30%) NIST
3 30 (30.30%) DV Cleared
4 27 (27.27%) Information Security
5 24 (24.24%) Risk Management
5 24 (24.24%) SC Cleared
6 22 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (20.20%) CISSP
8 19 (19.19%) Cloud Security
9 15 (15.15%) Public Sector
9 15 (15.15%) Network Security
10 14 (14.14%) COBIT
10 14 (14.14%) SIEM
10 14 (14.14%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (13.13%) Linux
11 13 (13.13%) CISM
12 12 (12.12%) Security Management
12 12 (12.12%) SAP
12 12 (12.12%) Social Skills
13 11 (11.11%) GDPR
13 11 (11.11%) Windows
13 11 (11.11%) Information Security Management
13 11 (11.11%) OWASP
14 10 (10.10%) Azure
14 10 (10.10%) Degree
14 10 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (10.10%) GRC
14 10 (10.10%) Application Security
14 10 (10.10%) ArcSight

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) SAP GRC
1 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.01%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.10%) Azure
2 7 (7.07%) AWS
3 4 (4.04%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.01%) IaaS
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.01%) PaaS
6 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.15%) Network Security
2 8 (8.08%) Firewall
3 5 (5.05%) DNS
4 4 (4.04%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (4.04%) VPN
5 3 (3.03%) Internet
5 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.02%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (2.02%) NX-OS
6 2 (2.02%) WAN
6 2 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.01%) Broadband
7 1 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) SAP BW
2 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.02%) Big Data
2 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.01%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.02%) JIRA
General
1 15 (15.15%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.06%) Finance
5 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.04%) Electronics
6 4 (4.04%) French Language
6 4 (4.04%) German Language
6 4 (4.04%) Marketing
7 3 (3.03%) Police
8 2 (2.02%) Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.01%) Law
9 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) SailPoint
1 2 (2.02%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.01%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.06%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.04%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.03%) IoT
4 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.02%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.02%) SCADA
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.01%) Contactless
6 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.13%) Linux
2 11 (11.11%) Windows
3 7 (7.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.60%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (27.27%) Information Security
3 24 (24.24%) Risk Management
4 19 (19.19%) Cloud Security
5 14 (14.14%) SIEM
5 14 (14.14%) Vulnerability Management
6 12 (12.12%) Security Management
7 11 (11.11%) Information Security Management
7 11 (11.11%) OWASP
8 10 (10.10%) Application Security
8 10 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (9.09%) ITIL
10 8 (8.08%) Agile
10 8 (8.08%) Roadmaps
10 8 (8.08%) SDLC
11 7 (7.07%) Risk Assessment
11 7 (7.07%) Threat Modelling
12 6 (6.06%) Business Continuity
12 6 (6.06%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.01%) C#
Qualifications
1 48 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.30%) DV Cleared
3 24 (24.24%) SC Cleared
4 20 (20.20%) CISSP
5 13 (13.13%) CISM
6 10 (10.10%) Degree
7 8 (8.08%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (7.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (7.07%) CRISC
9 6 (6.06%) CISA
9 6 (6.06%) CISMP
10 5 (5.05%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (5.05%) CLAS
11 4 (4.04%) ISACA
12 2 (2.02%) CCSP
12 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (1.01%) CCNP
13 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.30%) NIST
2 22 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (14.14%) COBIT
4 11 (11.11%) GDPR
5 10 (10.10%) GRC
6 9 (9.09%) RMADS
7 7 (7.07%) PCI DSS
8 5 (5.05%) JSP 440
9 4 (4.04%) NCSC
10 3 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (2.02%) COSO
12 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.01%) Nessus
1 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) SAP
2 10 (10.10%) ArcSight
3 7 (7.07%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.04%) Cisco
5 3 (3.03%) Juniper
5 3 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 2 (2.02%) Splunk
6 2 (2.02%) Teradata
6 2 (2.02%) VMware
7 1 (1.01%) Concur
7 1 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.01%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) ScienceLogic