Security Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 365 325
Rank change year-on-year +4 -40 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 280 151 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.55% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.60% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 113 146
10th Percentile £408 £419 £448
25th Percentile £461 £492 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -5.38% +5.68%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £681 £735 £784
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £576
% change year-on-year - -4.56% +4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.93 -
25th Percentile £61.13 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +142.93% - -
75th Percentile £78.78 £60.36 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £76.49 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £31.49 -
% change year-on-year +142.93% - -

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 42,174 25,315 30,946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.60% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,372 20,290
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,176 1,336 1,796
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%

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 14 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Consultant 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 14 August 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 -39 102 £550 +4.76% 125
North of England -28 50 £514 -2.10% 40
South West -28 41 £556 -17.63% 58
South East -59 41 £550 - 23
North West -23 31 £475 -9.52% 32
Midlands -26 30 £500 -21.57% 12
West Midlands -34 26 £500 -23.08% 10
Yorkshire -22 18 £550 +4.76% 4
East of England -15 6 £663 - 6
East Midlands -17 4 £500 +25.00% 2
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 132 (47.14%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (33.57%) Security Cleared
3 77 (27.50%) SC Cleared
4 62 (22.14%) NIST
5 55 (19.64%) Information Security
6 52 (18.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (17.86%) CISSP
8 44 (15.71%) Azure
8 44 (15.71%) Risk Management
9 43 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (15.00%) Microsoft
11 37 (13.21%) Application Security
11 37 (13.21%) CISM
11 37 (13.21%) Vulnerability Management
12 35 (12.50%) Cloud Security
13 34 (12.14%) AWS
14 33 (11.79%) GRC
15 30 (10.71%) Threat Modelling
16 29 (10.36%) Cryptography
16 29 (10.36%) Security Management
17 28 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
18 25 (8.93%) Security Operations
19 23 (8.21%) DevSecOps
19 23 (8.21%) Roadmaps
19 23 (8.21%) SAP
20 22 (7.86%) Incident Management
20 22 (7.86%) Network Security
20 22 (7.86%) Security Architecture
20 22 (7.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 21 (7.50%) PCI DSS

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 11 (3.93%) Confluence
2 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (6.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.57%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (15.71%) Azure
2 34 (12.14%) AWS
3 19 (6.79%) GCP
4 10 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 10 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.43%) OCI
8 3 (1.07%) Serverless
9 2 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.71%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.71%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.71%) SaaS
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.36%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.86%) Network Security
2 16 (5.71%) Firewall
3 7 (2.50%) WAN
4 5 (1.79%) HTTP
5 4 (1.43%) BGP
5 4 (1.43%) DNS
5 4 (1.43%) VPN
6 3 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.07%) IPsec
6 3 (1.07%) LAN
6 3 (1.07%) MPLS
7 2 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.71%) DKIM
7 2 (0.71%) DMARC
7 2 (0.71%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.71%) NGFW
7 2 (0.71%) OSPF
7 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.71%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.71%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.36%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.71%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (3.57%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) Git
2 2 (0.71%) MSI
3 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Snyk
3 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.71%) Finance
3 18 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.64%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.50%) Banking
6 7 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.14%) Aviation
7 6 (2.14%) Legal
8 4 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.71%) German Language
9 2 (0.71%) Law
9 2 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.36%) Advertising
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Military
10 1 (0.36%) Police
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.93%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (2.14%) RESTful
3 4 (1.43%) REST
3 4 (1.43%) SLSA
4 3 (1.07%) JSON
5 2 (0.71%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.71%) OAuth
5 2 (0.71%) SAML
6 1 (0.36%) Itk
6 1 (0.36%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.14%) Operational Technology
1 20 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 14 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.50%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.79%) BYOD
6 5 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.07%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.71%) CMDB
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.71%) PKI
9 2 (0.71%) SCADA
10 1 (0.36%) Life Science
10 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.14%) Windows
2 17 (6.07%) Linux
3 2 (0.71%) Android
3 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (47.14%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (19.64%) Information Security
3 44 (15.71%) Risk Management
4 43 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (13.21%) Application Security
5 37 (13.21%) Vulnerability Management
6 35 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 30 (10.71%) Threat Modelling
8 29 (10.36%) Cryptography
8 29 (10.36%) Security Management
9 28 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
10 25 (8.93%) Security Operations
11 23 (8.21%) DevSecOps
11 23 (8.21%) Roadmaps
12 22 (7.86%) Incident Management
12 22 (7.86%) Security Architecture
12 22 (7.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (7.50%) SAP Security
14 20 (7.14%) Agile
14 20 (7.14%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.21%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.79%) Python
4 2 (0.71%) Bash
4 2 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 94 (33.57%) Security Cleared
2 77 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.86%) CISSP
4 37 (13.21%) CISM
5 19 (6.79%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (6.79%) Degree
6 18 (6.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 15 (5.36%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.64%) CCSP
8 13 (4.64%) CEH
9 11 (3.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 10 (3.57%) OSCP
11 8 (2.86%) CRISC
11 8 (2.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 7 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (1.43%) CCSK
14 4 (1.43%) CISA
14 4 (1.43%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.14%) NIST
2 52 (18.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (11.79%) GRC
4 21 (7.50%) PCI DSS
5 17 (6.07%) NCSC
6 14 (5.00%) GDPR
7 10 (3.57%) COBIT
8 9 (3.21%) QA
9 5 (1.79%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.79%) NIST 800
9 5 (1.79%) RMADS
9 5 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.43%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.71%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.71%) ITGC
11 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (2.50%) IAG
2 6 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) Docker
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.36%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.14%) Terraform
3 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.79%) SCCM
4 3 (1.07%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 42 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.21%) SAP
3 8 (2.86%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.14%) Cisco
5 5 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.79%) Splunk
6 4 (1.43%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.43%) Google
6 4 (1.43%) Tenable
6 4 (1.43%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.07%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.07%) Databricks
7 3 (1.07%) Tanium
8 2 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.71%) F5
8 2 (0.71%) Juniper
8 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.71%) VMware
9 1 (0.36%) Apple