Security Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 363 352
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 236 110 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.49% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 83 147
10th Percentile £413 £405 £466
25th Percentile £488 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £590 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -5.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £694
90th Percentile £776 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £563 £585 £610
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.10% +6.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 37,387 22,434 34,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,316 14,918 22,678
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 909 2,434
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.11 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.49
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.04% -21.23% -18.89%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Security Consultant job vacancy trend in England

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Consultant job vacancies in England

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Consultant job vacancies in England

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 Security Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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 0 111 £538 -2.27% 23
Midlands -46 32 £563 -13.46% 13
West Midlands -33 30 £563 -13.46% 7
South East -55 28 £563 -6.25% 5
South West -25 23 £650 +10.64% 11
North of England -52 22 £532 -13.50% 11
North West -31 16 £550 - 8
Yorkshire -45 6 £514 -24.41% 3
East of England -27 5 £663 +20.45% 1
East Midlands -28 2 £500 - 6
Security Consultant
UK

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, Security Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 106 (44.92%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (34.75%) Security Cleared
3 69 (29.24%) SC Cleared
4 53 (22.46%) NIST
5 49 (20.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (19.49%) Information Security
7 42 (17.80%) CISSP
8 37 (15.68%) Risk Management
9 36 (15.25%) Azure
10 32 (13.56%) CISM
10 32 (13.56%) Microsoft
11 31 (13.14%) Cloud Security
12 27 (11.44%) AWS
13 25 (10.59%) Threat Modelling
14 22 (9.32%) Application Security
15 21 (8.90%) Agile
15 21 (8.90%) GRC
16 19 (8.05%) Roadmaps
17 18 (7.63%) DV Cleared
17 18 (7.63%) Security Architecture
18 17 (7.20%) DevSecOps
18 17 (7.20%) Risk Assessment
18 17 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 16 (6.78%) NCSC
19 16 (6.78%) PCI DSS
19 16 (6.78%) Penetration Testing
19 16 (6.78%) Security Operations
19 16 (6.78%) Vulnerability Management
20 15 (6.36%) Security Testing
21 14 (5.93%) GCP

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.12%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.12%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.25%) Azure
2 27 (11.44%) AWS
3 14 (5.93%) GCP
4 9 (3.81%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.85%) OCI
7 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.85%) SaaS
7 2 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.42%) Akamai
8 1 (0.42%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.42%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.42%) GitHub
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.42%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.66%) Network Security
2 9 (3.81%) Firewall
3 6 (2.54%) Kerberos
4 5 (2.12%) HTTP
5 2 (0.85%) NGFW
5 2 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.42%) IPsec
6 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.42%) VLAN
6 1 (0.42%) WAN
6 1 (0.42%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.85%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.42%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.42%) Power BI
2 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.12%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (16.10%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.17%) Finance
3 13 (5.51%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.97%) Banking
6 6 (2.54%) Legal
7 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.69%) Law
8 3 (1.27%) Electronics
8 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.54%) LDAP
1 6 (2.54%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (1.69%) RESTful
3 2 (0.85%) J2EE
3 2 (0.85%) JSP
3 2 (0.85%) SLSA
4 1 (0.42%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (0.42%) OAuth
4 1 (0.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.02%) Security Posture
2 16 (6.78%) Operational Technology
3 10 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.12%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.12%) BYOD
5 5 (2.12%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.69%) PKI
7 3 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.42%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.42%) IoT
9 1 (0.42%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.12%) Linux
1 5 (2.12%) Windows
2 2 (0.85%) zOS
3 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (44.92%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (19.49%) Information Security
3 37 (15.68%) Risk Management
4 31 (13.14%) Cloud Security
5 25 (10.59%) Threat Modelling
6 22 (9.32%) Application Security
7 21 (8.90%) Agile
8 19 (8.05%) Roadmaps
9 18 (7.63%) Security Architecture
10 17 (7.20%) DevSecOps
10 17 (7.20%) Risk Assessment
10 17 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (6.78%) Penetration Testing
11 16 (6.78%) Security Operations
11 16 (6.78%) Vulnerability Management
12 15 (6.36%) Security Testing
13 14 (5.93%) Security Management
13 14 (5.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (5.51%) Incident Response
15 12 (5.08%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (1.27%) Python
3 2 (0.85%) Java
3 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.85%) RPG
4 1 (0.42%) Bash
Qualifications
1 82 (34.75%) Security Cleared
2 69 (29.24%) SC Cleared
3 42 (17.80%) CISSP
4 32 (13.56%) CISM
5 18 (7.63%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.51%) Degree
7 11 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (4.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (3.81%) CCSP
9 9 (3.81%) CEH
10 6 (2.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (2.12%) CISA
11 5 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.12%) CRISC
11 5 (2.12%) OSCP
12 4 (1.69%) CCSK
13 3 (1.27%) GIAC
14 2 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
14 2 (0.85%) CGEIT
14 2 (0.85%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (22.46%) NIST
2 49 (20.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (8.90%) GRC
4 16 (6.78%) NCSC
4 16 (6.78%) PCI DSS
5 12 (5.08%) GDPR
6 10 (4.24%) COBIT
7 9 (3.81%) JSP 440
8 7 (2.97%) RMADS
9 5 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.85%) ITGC
10 2 (0.85%) QA
11 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.42%) ISA99
11 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (3.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.85%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.85%) Terraform
4 1 (0.42%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.42%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 32 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.81%) SAP
3 7 (2.97%) Splunk
4 5 (2.12%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.69%) Tenable
6 3 (1.27%) Databricks
6 3 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.42%) Acunetix
7 1 (0.42%) Ariba
7 1 (0.42%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco
7 1 (0.42%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.42%) Google
7 1 (0.42%) Imperva
7 1 (0.42%) Netsparker
7 1 (0.42%) Okta
7 1 (0.42%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.42%) Veracode
7 1 (0.42%) Zscaler