Security Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 356 349
Rank change year-on-year -40 -7 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 139 138 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.51% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.55% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 91 149
10th Percentile £447 £500 £460
25th Percentile £480 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £713 £684 £700
90th Percentile £775 £750 £803
UK median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £71.54 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £72.08 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £73.56 £87.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% -15.45% +17.97%
75th Percentile £72.50 £74.45 -
90th Percentile - £74.63 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £73.56 £87.00
% change year-on-year -11.64% -15.45% +17.97%

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 28,488 25,027 33,935
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 92.90% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,175 15,498 23,097
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,738 757 1,541
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.91 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.45 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -19.22% +23.80%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -18 60 £600 +9.09% 21
South West 0 26 £675 +3.85% 10
South East -11 14 £480 -24.71% 12
North of England -51 12 £486 -24.42% 6
West Midlands -24 8 £738 +45.32%
Midlands -35 8 £738 +45.32%
North West -36 8 £486 -13.21% 4
East of England -17 5 £750 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire -46 4 £484 -29.93% 2
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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 68 (48.92%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (33.81%) Security Cleared
3 39 (28.06%) SC Cleared
4 35 (25.18%) Risk Management
5 34 (24.46%) Cloud Security
6 33 (23.74%) CISSP
7 30 (21.58%) Microsoft
8 29 (20.86%) CISM
9 28 (20.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 27 (19.42%) NIST
11 26 (18.71%) Incident Response
12 23 (16.55%) Azure
13 18 (12.95%) AWS
14 17 (12.23%) SIEM
15 16 (11.51%) AI
15 16 (11.51%) Roadmaps
16 15 (10.79%) Firewall
16 15 (10.79%) Information Security
16 15 (10.79%) Security Architecture
17 14 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 13 (9.35%) GCP
18 13 (9.35%) NCSC
18 13 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 13 (9.35%) Threat Modelling
19 12 (8.63%) Active Directory
19 12 (8.63%) Agile
19 12 (8.63%) Zero Trust
20 11 (7.91%) DV Cleared
20 11 (7.91%) Entra ID
20 11 (7.91%) Identity Access Management

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 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.55%) Azure
2 18 (12.95%) AWS
3 13 (9.35%) GCP
4 11 (7.91%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.32%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.16%) SaaS
9 2 (1.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.72%) Akamai
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (0.72%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.72%) OCI
10 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.79%) Firewall
2 9 (6.47%) Network Security
3 6 (4.32%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.44%) DNS
4 2 (1.44%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.44%) Modbus
4 2 (1.44%) SSL
4 2 (1.44%) VPN
5 1 (0.72%) DHCP
5 1 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.72%) EDRMS
1 1 (0.72%) Power BI
1 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.72%) JIRA
1 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.99%) Finance
3 12 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.32%) Legal
4 6 (4.32%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.32%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.60%) Electronics
5 5 (3.60%) Marketing
6 4 (2.88%) Local Government
7 3 (2.16%) Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Law
8 2 (1.44%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Military
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.47%) LDAP
2 1 (0.72%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (0.72%) JWT
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.42%) Security Posture
2 5 (3.60%) Operational Technology
3 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.16%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.44%) IoT
5 2 (1.44%) SCADA
6 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.72%) CMDB
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.72%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.72%) NHS
6 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
1 3 (2.16%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (48.92%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (25.18%) Risk Management
3 34 (24.46%) Cloud Security
4 26 (18.71%) Incident Response
5 17 (12.23%) SIEM
6 16 (11.51%) AI
6 16 (11.51%) Roadmaps
7 15 (10.79%) Information Security
7 15 (10.79%) Security Architecture
8 14 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (9.35%) Threat Modelling
10 12 (8.63%) Agile
10 12 (8.63%) Zero Trust
11 11 (7.91%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (6.47%) DevSecOps
13 8 (5.76%) Identity Management
13 8 (5.76%) Regulatory Compliance
13 8 (5.76%) Security Operations
14 7 (5.04%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.76%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.32%) Python
3 5 (3.60%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.44%) Bash
4 2 (1.44%) Bicep
5 1 (0.72%) C
5 1 (0.72%) C++
5 1 (0.72%) R
5 1 (0.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (33.81%) Security Cleared
2 39 (28.06%) SC Cleared
3 33 (23.74%) CISSP
4 29 (20.86%) CISM
5 11 (7.91%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.32%) CRISC
6 6 (4.32%) Degree
7 5 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (3.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (2.88%) CEH
8 4 (2.88%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (2.88%) CISA
9 3 (2.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.44%) CLAS
10 2 (1.44%) GIAC
11 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.72%) CISMP
11 1 (0.72%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (19.42%) NIST
3 13 (9.35%) NCSC
4 10 (7.19%) GDPR
5 9 (6.47%) GRC
6 5 (3.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 5 (3.60%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.88%) JSP 440
7 4 (2.88%) RMADS
8 3 (2.16%) EU AI Act
9 2 (1.44%) COBIT
9 2 (1.44%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (8.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.16%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.16%) Terraform
2 2 (1.44%) Ansible
2 2 (1.44%) CASB
3 1 (0.72%) Istio
3 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.72%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 30 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.76%) Google
3 7 (5.04%) Splunk
4 5 (3.60%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.60%) SAP
5 4 (2.88%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.88%) Tenable
6 3 (2.16%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.44%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.44%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.44%) ExtraHop
7 2 (1.44%) FireEye
7 2 (1.44%) McAfee
7 2 (1.44%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.44%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.72%) Clearswift
8 1 (0.72%) Imperva
8 1 (0.72%) Intel
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat