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 19 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 352 338
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 260 127 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.55% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 95 147
10th Percentile £413 £400 £461
25th Percentile £494 £494 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £694
90th Percentile £775 £725 £805
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.93 -
25th Percentile £61.13 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.68% - -
75th Percentile £63.38 £60.36 -
90th Percentile - £76.49 -
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £31.49 -
% change year-on-year +97.68% - -

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 39,807 22,960 35,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.31% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,488 15,102 22,819
10th Percentile £325 £294 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,027 2,691
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.50 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.19
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £27.21 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.57% -27.44% -16.67%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -18 110 £538 +2.38% 27
North of England -29 46 £550 - 21
Midlands -33 36 £563 -10.00% 3
North West -9 32 £498 -9.41% 8
West Midlands -37 32 £563 -13.46% 2
South West -11 24 £600 -4.00% 14
South East -67 24 £563 +2.27% 11
Yorkshire -46 14 £563 +7.14% 7
East of England -26 6 £663 +20.45% 2
East Midlands -16 4 £500 +25.00% 1
Security Consultant
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Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 112 (43.08%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 65 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 57 (21.92%) NIST
5 53 (20.38%) Information Security
6 45 (17.31%) CISSP
6 45 (17.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (14.23%) Azure
7 37 (14.23%) Microsoft
8 34 (13.08%) Risk Management
9 32 (12.31%) CISM
10 31 (11.92%) AWS
10 31 (11.92%) Vulnerability Management
11 29 (11.15%) Application Security
11 29 (11.15%) Cloud Security
11 29 (11.15%) Threat Modelling
12 25 (9.62%) Agile
12 25 (9.62%) Penetration Testing
13 23 (8.85%) GRC
13 23 (8.85%) Security Operations
14 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (8.08%) Cryptography
15 21 (8.08%) NCSC
16 20 (7.69%) PCI DSS
16 20 (7.69%) Security Testing
16 20 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 19 (7.31%) Degree
17 19 (7.31%) DevSecOps
17 19 (7.31%) Security Management
18 18 (6.92%) DV Cleared

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 9 (3.46%) Confluence
2 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.31%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.23%) Azure
2 31 (11.92%) AWS
3 17 (6.54%) GCP
4 10 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.15%) Serverless
8 2 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.77%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (0.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.77%) OCI
8 2 (0.77%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.77%) SaaS
8 2 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.38%) Firewall
1 14 (5.38%) Network Security
2 6 (2.31%) WAN
3 5 (1.92%) HTTP
4 4 (1.54%) VPN
5 3 (1.15%) BGP
5 3 (1.15%) LAN
6 2 (0.77%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.77%) IPsec
6 2 (0.77%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.77%) MPLS
6 2 (0.77%) NGFW
6 2 (0.77%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.38%) DKIM
7 1 (0.38%) DMARC
7 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.38%) VLAN
7 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.54%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.38%) Power BI
2 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (3.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.38%) Git
2 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.62%) Finance
3 16 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.31%) Aviation
5 6 (2.31%) Banking
5 6 (2.31%) Legal
6 4 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Law
8 2 (0.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.38%) Advertising
9 1 (0.38%) Electronics
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.38%) Police
9 1 (0.38%) Publishing
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.08%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (2.31%) RESTful
3 3 (1.15%) SLSA
4 2 (0.77%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.77%) J2EE
4 2 (0.77%) JSP
4 2 (0.77%) LDAP
5 1 (0.38%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.38%) OAuth
5 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.85%) Security Posture
2 16 (6.15%) Operational Technology
3 11 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.69%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.92%) BYOD
8 4 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.15%) PKI
10 2 (0.77%) SCADA
11 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.77%) Windows
2 14 (5.38%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.77%) zOS
4 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (43.08%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (20.38%) Information Security
3 34 (13.08%) Risk Management
4 31 (11.92%) Vulnerability Management
5 29 (11.15%) Application Security
5 29 (11.15%) Cloud Security
5 29 (11.15%) Threat Modelling
6 25 (9.62%) Agile
6 25 (9.62%) Penetration Testing
7 23 (8.85%) Security Operations
8 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (8.08%) Cryptography
10 20 (7.69%) Security Testing
10 20 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (7.31%) DevSecOps
11 19 (7.31%) Security Management
12 18 (6.92%) Roadmaps
12 18 (6.92%) Security Architecture
13 16 (6.15%) Risk Assessment
14 15 (5.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (1.54%) Java
2 4 (1.54%) Python
3 2 (0.77%) Bash
3 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.77%) RPG
Qualifications
1 80 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 65 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 45 (17.31%) CISSP
4 32 (12.31%) CISM
5 19 (7.31%) Degree
6 18 (6.92%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.38%) CEH
7 14 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 12 (4.62%) CCSP
10 10 (3.85%) OSCP
11 7 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.54%) CCSK
12 4 (1.54%) CISA
12 4 (1.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.15%) CRISC
13 3 (1.15%) GIAC
14 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.77%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (21.92%) NIST
2 45 (17.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.85%) GRC
4 21 (8.08%) NCSC
5 20 (7.69%) PCI DSS
6 13 (5.00%) GDPR
7 11 (4.23%) COBIT
8 8 (3.08%) QA
9 7 (2.69%) JSP 440
10 5 (1.92%) RMADS
10 5 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.77%) ITGC
12 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.38%) ISA99
12 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.54%) IAG
3 2 (0.77%) Docker
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.38%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.31%) Terraform
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.77%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.85%) SAP
3 8 (3.08%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.31%) Splunk
5 5 (1.92%) Tenable
6 4 (1.54%) Google
7 3 (1.15%) Cisco
7 3 (1.15%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.15%) Databricks
7 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.15%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.77%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.77%) F5
8 2 (0.77%) Juniper
8 2 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.77%) VMware
9 1 (0.38%) Acunetix
9 1 (0.38%) Apple
9 1 (0.38%) Ariba
9 1 (0.38%) Blue Coat
73 Security Consultant jobs in England