IT Security Consultant Contracts

IT Security Consultant
UK

The median IT Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 668 833
Rank change year-on-year +93 +165 -154
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Consultant 10 25 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.043% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.045% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 13
10th Percentile £501 £462 -
25th Percentile £510 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £398
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +30.82% -11.67%
75th Percentile £638 £540 £518
90th Percentile £695 £638 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £628 £625 £495
% change year-on-year +0.40% +26.26% -4.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

IT Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Consultant in the UK

IT Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Security Consultant in the UK

IT Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Security Consultant over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Consultant in the UK

IT Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Consultant in the UK

IT Security Consultant
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +87 9 £558 +7.21% 3
London +70 5 £530 +1.92% 1
UK excluding London +72 4 £628 +0.40% 2
South East +20 1 £750 +20.00%
South West - 1 £625 -
East of England - 1 £600 -
Scotland - 1 £630 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, IT 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 featuring IT Security Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (20.00%) Security Auditing
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) Application Security
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (10.00%) NIST

IT Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Application Security
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Security Auditing
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware