Security Consultant Contracts in Cheshire

Security Consultant
North West > Cheshire

The median Security Consultant daily rate in Cheshire is £618 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 60 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 6 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.20% 0.19% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.21% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £549 - -
25th Percentile £585 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £625 £632
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -1.11% +11.46%
75th Percentile £632 £638 -
90th Percentile £635 - -
North West median daily rate £618 £550 £569
% change year-on-year +12.27% -3.30% +3.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 466 478 501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 90.02% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 329 281
10th Percentile £274 £263 £183
25th Percentile £364 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -0.57%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £632 £651 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £12.04
25th Percentile £16.47 £19.71 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £29.26 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% +19.43% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.58 £59.60
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.50
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.01% +13.86%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in Cheshire

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in Cheshire

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Knutsford - 3 £625 -
Northwich - 1 - -
Security Consultant
North West

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 across the Cheshire region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) SDLC
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team Management
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (33.33%) Teradata
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) Databricks
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Security Posture

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Information Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Software Audit
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Teradata
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft