Security Consultant Contracts

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 379 512
Rank change year-on-year -6 +133 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 220 379 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.63% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.67% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 246 242
10th Percentile £468 £450 £425
25th Percentile £540 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £559
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.91% +1.59%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £650
90th Percentile £825 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +10.91% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £74.93 £33.50
25th Percentile - £77.44 £38.75
Median hourly rate - £83.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +108.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile - £87.44 £50.00
90th Percentile - £88.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £83.25 -

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +52 193 £625 +4.17% 56
London +46 97 £650 +11.11% 24
UK excluding London +32 96 £610 +10.91% 30
Work from Home +2 63 £575 - 26
South East +26 51 £625 - 11
North of England +21 13 £593 +7.73% 6
South West +19 13 £625 +8.70% 5
West Midlands +27 11 £545 -0.91% 2
Midlands +14 11 £545 -0.91% 2
North West +13 10 £618 +12.27% 2
Scotland +24 5 £608 +41.61% 5
East of England +17 3 £600 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire +11 3 £575 -4.17% 4

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 120 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (34.09%) Information Security
3 62 (28.18%) NIST
4 61 (27.73%) Security Cleared
5 54 (24.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (23.18%) Finance
7 48 (21.82%) Cloud Security
8 43 (19.55%) CISSP
9 42 (19.09%) Azure
10 39 (17.73%) Social Skills
11 38 (17.27%) Risk Management
12 36 (16.36%) CISM
13 34 (15.45%) SC Cleared
13 34 (15.45%) DV Cleared
14 32 (14.55%) Application Security
15 28 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
16 26 (11.82%) DevSecOps
16 26 (11.82%) SIEM
17 24 (10.91%) AWS
17 24 (10.91%) Firewall
17 24 (10.91%) Microsoft
18 23 (10.45%) Vulnerability Management
18 23 (10.45%) GRC
19 22 (10.00%) Network Security
19 22 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
20 21 (9.55%) Security Architecture
20 21 (9.55%) DevOps
20 21 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
20 21 (9.55%) SDLC
21 20 (9.09%) CRISC

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.91%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) SAP GRC
1 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.09%) Azure
2 24 (10.91%) AWS
3 14 (6.36%) GCP
4 11 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.64%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.73%) IaaS
7 4 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.91%) Akamai
8 2 (0.91%) GitHub
8 2 (0.91%) OCI
8 2 (0.91%) PaaS
8 2 (0.91%) SaaS
8 2 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.91%) Firewall
2 22 (10.00%) Network Security
3 11 (5.00%) WAN
4 9 (4.09%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (1.82%) DNS
6 4 (1.82%) Internet
6 4 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.82%) VPN
7 3 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.36%) NGFW
7 3 (1.36%) Wireless
8 2 (0.91%) Broadband
8 2 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.91%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.45%) LAN
9 1 (0.45%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.73%) SAP BW
2 4 (1.82%) Big Data
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
1 2 (0.91%) GitLab
1 2 (0.91%) JIRA
1 2 (0.91%) RStudio
General
1 51 (23.18%) Finance
2 39 (17.73%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.45%) Banking
5 10 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.27%) German Language
7 5 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.82%) Electronics
8 4 (1.82%) French Language
8 4 (1.82%) Marketing
9 3 (1.36%) Law
9 3 (1.36%) Police
10 2 (0.91%) Front Office
10 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.91%) SailPoint
1 2 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.45%) LDAP
2 1 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.18%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.91%) Security Posture
3 12 (5.45%) Operational Technology
4 9 (4.09%) PKI
5 8 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.73%) IoT
8 5 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.27%) SCADA
9 3 (1.36%) NHS
9 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.91%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.91%) Industry 4.0
11 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.45%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 1 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.18%) Windows
2 14 (6.36%) Linux
3 8 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (34.09%) Information Security
3 48 (21.82%) Cloud Security
4 38 (17.27%) Risk Management
5 32 (14.55%) Application Security
6 28 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
7 26 (11.82%) DevSecOps
7 26 (11.82%) SIEM
8 23 (10.45%) Vulnerability Management
9 22 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
10 21 (9.55%) DevOps
10 21 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (9.55%) SDLC
10 21 (9.55%) Security Architecture
11 20 (9.09%) Security Management
12 19 (8.64%) OWASP
12 19 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (8.18%) Agile
14 17 (7.73%) Risk Assessment
15 16 (7.27%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.18%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.82%) SQL
4 2 (0.91%) R
5 1 (0.45%) C#
5 1 (0.45%) Java
5 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 61 (27.73%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.55%) CISSP
3 36 (16.36%) CISM
4 34 (15.45%) DV Cleared
4 34 (15.45%) SC Cleared
5 20 (9.09%) CRISC
6 19 (8.64%) Degree
7 17 (7.73%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (6.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 15 (6.82%) CISA
9 7 (3.18%) CISMP
10 5 (2.27%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (2.27%) CLAS
10 5 (2.27%) ISACA
11 4 (1.82%) CCSP
12 2 (0.91%) CEH
13 1 (0.45%) CCNA
13 1 (0.45%) CCNP
13 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (28.18%) NIST
2 54 (24.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (10.45%) GRC
4 19 (8.64%) PCI DSS
5 17 (7.73%) NCSC
6 15 (6.82%) COBIT
7 14 (6.36%) GDPR
7 14 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 9 (4.09%) NIST 800
9 7 (3.18%) ISO 31000
9 7 (3.18%) RMADS
10 6 (2.73%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (2.27%) JSP 440
12 4 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.91%) ISA99
15 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.45%) Def Stans
15 1 (0.45%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.91%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.36%) Terraform
2 2 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.91%) Nessus
2 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.45%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.27%) SAP
3 11 (5.00%) ArcSight
4 8 (3.64%) Cisco
5 5 (2.27%) IBM
5 5 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.82%) CheckPoint
6 4 (1.82%) Google
6 4 (1.82%) McAfee
6 4 (1.82%) Okta
6 4 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.36%) ForeScout
7 3 (1.36%) Juniper
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle
7 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.36%) Tufin
7 3 (1.36%) VMware
7 3 (1.36%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.91%) AlgoSec
8 2 (0.91%) Teradata