Security Consultant Contracts in Birmingham

Security Consultant
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Security Consultant daily rate in Birmingham.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 65 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.28% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile - £588 £638
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +19.27% -0.91% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in Birmingham

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DSL
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk