Technical Security Consultant Contracts

Technical Security Consultant
UK

The median Technical Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £800 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 571 691 819
Rank change year-on-year +120 +128 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Security Consultant 11 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.021% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.022% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 16
10th Percentile £675 - £425
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £850 £528 £563
90th Percentile £900 £545 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -6.98% -14.00% +13.64%

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
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 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Technical Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Security Consultant in the UK

Technical Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Security Consultant in the UK

Technical Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Security Consultant over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Security Consultant in the UK

Technical Security Consultant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Security Consultant within the UK 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
England +98 10 £800 +48.84% 4
London +96 9 £800 - 1
Work from Home +115 6 £800 +60.00% 4
UK excluding London +57 1 £500 -6.98% 2
South West - 1 £500 -

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

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

1 10 (90.91%) DevSecOps
2 9 (81.82%) NIST
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
3 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) AWS
4 6 (54.55%) PCI DSS
4 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (54.55%) Finance
5 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
7 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
8 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (18.18%) Agile
8 2 (18.18%) CISSP
8 2 (18.18%) CISM
8 2 (18.18%) Information Security
9 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Project Planning
9 1 (9.09%) COBIT
9 1 (9.09%) Security Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (9.09%) SABSA
9 1 (9.09%) COSO
9 1 (9.09%) OWASP

Technical 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 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevSecOps
2 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Information Security
6 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
7 1 (9.09%) Application Security
7 1 (9.09%) OWASP
7 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) Project Planning
7 1 (9.09%) SABSA
7 1 (9.09%) Security Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISM
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) NIST
2 6 (54.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) COBIT
3 1 (9.09%) COSO
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk