IT Security Consultant Contracts in England

IT Security Consultant
UK > England

The median IT Security Consultant daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 533 626
Rank change year-on-year +50 +93 +143
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Consultant 2 9 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.024% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.026% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 25
10th Percentile £468 £496 £462
25th Percentile £475 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +7.21% +30.82%
75th Percentile £525 £647 £540
90th Percentile £533 £705 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% +30.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Consultant in England

IT Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Security Consultant in England

IT Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Consultant in England

IT Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +34 1 £475 -10.38% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 2
North of England - 1 £525 - 2
IT Security Consultant
UK

IT Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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

1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register

IT Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys