Security Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 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 348 391 464
Rank change year-on-year +43 +73 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 46 60 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 34
10th Percentile £165 £436 -
25th Percentile £425 £507 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £491
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +22.14% +10.02%
75th Percentile £532 £781 £675
90th Percentile £539 £835 £784
UK median daily rate £500 £591 £544
% change year-on-year -15.34% +8.62% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £54.06 £39.85
25th Percentile - £59.73 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £72.40 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.91% +26.00%
75th Percentile - £73.59 £69.83
90th Percentile - £74.16 £70.58
UK median hourly rate - £68.27 £59.00
% change year-on-year - +15.71% +7.27%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

Security Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

Security Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

Security Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

Security Specialist
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 Specialist 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 +31 25 £450 -30.77% 1
Scotland +44 12 £481 -12.50% 7
South West +1 4 £530 -33.12% 5
Midlands +25 3 £625 +20.54% 5
West Midlands +19 3 £625 +7.53% 4
North of England +25 2 £488 +5.41% 3
Yorkshire +17 1 £425 -46.46% 1
North East - 1 £550 - 1
Security Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Security Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 23 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 21 (45.65%) Microsoft
3 14 (30.43%) Management Information System
4 12 (26.09%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (23.91%) SIEM
5 11 (23.91%) Information Security
5 11 (23.91%) Incident Response
6 10 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (19.57%) Windows
8 8 (17.39%) Forcepoint
8 8 (17.39%) Data Security
8 8 (17.39%) Degree
8 8 (17.39%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (17.39%) Varonis
8 8 (17.39%) LogRhythm
8 8 (17.39%) Qualys
9 7 (15.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (15.22%) Splunk
9 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
9 7 (15.22%) Risk Management
10 6 (13.04%) Agile
10 6 (13.04%) Risk Assessment
10 6 (13.04%) Linux
10 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
10 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
10 6 (13.04%) Azure
10 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (13.04%) Network Security
10 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
10 6 (13.04%) Cyber Threat

Security Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Azure
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (2.17%) AWS
4 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (2.17%) AWS KMS
4 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.17%) PaaS
4 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Network Security
2 5 (10.87%) Firewall
3 3 (6.52%) SSL
4 2 (4.35%) Broadband
5 1 (2.17%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Police
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.70%) PKI
4 3 (6.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.52%) Wiki
5 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.17%) CCTV
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 12 (26.09%) Vulnerability Management
3 11 (23.91%) Incident Response
3 11 (23.91%) Information Security
3 11 (23.91%) SIEM
4 10 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (17.39%) Data Loss Prevention
5 8 (17.39%) Data Security
6 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
6 7 (15.22%) Risk Management
7 6 (13.04%) Agile
7 6 (13.04%) Risk Assessment
8 5 (10.87%) ISMS
8 5 (10.87%) ITIL
8 5 (10.87%) Risk Analysis
9 4 (8.70%) Computer Security
9 4 (8.70%) Logistics
9 4 (8.70%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (8.70%) Security Testing
9 4 (8.70%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) CISSP
4 4 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (8.70%) MCSE
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CISA
5 2 (4.35%) CISM
6 1 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) CCSP
6 1 (2.17%) CEH
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.17%) ISSAP
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (6.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (4.35%) NIST
6 1 (2.17%) COBIT
6 1 (2.17%) GDPR
6 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (2.17%) JSP 440
6 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) SCCM
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (45.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Forcepoint
2 8 (17.39%) LogRhythm
2 8 (17.39%) Qualys
2 8 (17.39%) Varonis
3 7 (15.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto