IT Security Consultant Contracts in England

IT Security Consultant
UK > England

The median IT Security Consultant daily rate in England is £570 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 528 636 766
Rank change year-on-year +108 +130 -149
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Consultant 7 27 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.053% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.056% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 11
10th Percentile £486 £462 -
25th Percentile £514 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £520 £398
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +30.82% -16.32%
75th Percentile £666 £540 £544
90th Percentile £725 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £520 £398
% change year-on-year +15.38% +30.82% -14.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram 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 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
London +79 3 £530 +1.92% 1
South East +26 1 £750 +20.00% 1
South West - 1 £625 -
East of England - 1 £600 -
IT Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Key Management
3 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Application Security
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification

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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Application Security
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Key Management
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Def Stans
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) VMware