Security Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £571, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 337 342
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +159
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 155 195 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.60% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 128 180
10th Percentile £419 £425 £448
25th Percentile £493 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £27.93 - £54.00
25th Percentile £28.52 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £31.49 - £70.00
75th Percentile £60.36 - £80.00
90th Percentile £76.49 - £86.00
UK median hourly rate £31.49 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,142 30,231 40,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.98% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,215 18,878 28,055
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,352 1,487 1,370
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.61 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +3 72 £538 -5.91% 23
South East +14 30 £550 -12.00% 18
South West +28 23 £675 +5.88% 9
North of England -25 14 £525 -6.25% 2
North West -20 12 £525 -4.55%
Midlands -16 7 £638 +27.50% 4
West Midlands -15 6 £650 +34.02% 1
East of England +6 3 £850 +47.83% 3
Yorkshire -18 1 £492 -29.71% 1
East Midlands - 1 £400 - 2
North East - 1 £600 - 1
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, 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 Security Consultant in the job title.

1 57 (36.77%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (32.90%) Social Skills
3 49 (31.61%) Security Cleared
4 43 (27.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (27.10%) CISSP
6 40 (25.81%) Risk Management
7 38 (24.52%) NIST
8 37 (23.87%) Information Security
9 36 (23.23%) Finance
10 35 (22.58%) Cloud Security
11 33 (21.29%) CISM
12 24 (15.48%) DV Cleared
13 23 (14.84%) Public Sector
14 22 (14.19%) SC Cleared
15 21 (13.55%) Incident Response
16 20 (12.90%) AWS
17 18 (11.61%) Microsoft
17 18 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
18 17 (10.97%) SAP
18 17 (10.97%) Identity Access Management
19 16 (10.32%) Roadmaps
19 16 (10.32%) Telecoms
19 16 (10.32%) Firewall
19 16 (10.32%) Network Security
20 15 (9.68%) RMADS
20 15 (9.68%) Agile
20 15 (9.68%) Security Posture
21 14 (9.03%) Threat Modelling
21 14 (9.03%) Risk Assessment
22 13 (8.39%) Security Architecture

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.90%) AWS
2 12 (7.74%) Azure
3 5 (3.23%) GCP
3 5 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.23%) SaaS
4 4 (2.58%) OCI
5 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (1.29%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.29%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.29%) IaaS
6 2 (1.29%) PaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Akamai
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.32%) Firewall
1 16 (10.32%) Network Security
2 8 (5.16%) VPN
3 5 (3.23%) DNS
4 4 (2.58%) NGFW
5 3 (1.94%) SSL
6 2 (1.29%) DHCP
6 2 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.29%) LAN
6 2 (1.29%) WAN
7 1 (0.65%) 4G
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.65%) Internet
7 1 (0.65%) MPLS
7 1 (0.65%) NAS
7 1 (0.65%) PSTN
7 1 (0.65%) SAN
7 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.23%) Finance
3 23 (14.84%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.32%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.10%) Electronics
5 11 (7.10%) Manufacturing
5 11 (7.10%) Marketing
6 9 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.23%) Local Government
8 4 (2.58%) Banking
9 3 (1.94%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Police
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.58%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.65%) JWT
3 1 (0.65%) LDAP
3 1 (0.65%) REST
3 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.68%) Security Posture
2 8 (5.16%) Operational Technology
3 6 (3.87%) PKI
4 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (1.29%) IoT
6 2 (1.29%) NHS
6 2 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.65%) Clustering
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) SCADA
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.94%) Linux
1 3 (1.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) CentOS
2 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.77%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (25.81%) Risk Management
3 37 (23.87%) Information Security
4 35 (22.58%) Cloud Security
5 21 (13.55%) Incident Response
6 18 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (10.97%) Identity Access Management
8 16 (10.32%) Roadmaps
9 15 (9.68%) Agile
10 14 (9.03%) Risk Assessment
10 14 (9.03%) Threat Modelling
11 13 (8.39%) SDLC
11 13 (8.39%) Security Architecture
12 12 (7.74%) DevSecOps
12 12 (7.74%) Programme Management
12 12 (7.74%) Security Operations
12 12 (7.74%) SIEM
13 11 (7.10%) Application Security
13 11 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (7.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.87%) Python
2 3 (1.94%) Bash
3 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.65%) C
4 1 (0.65%) C++
4 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.10%) CISSP
3 33 (21.29%) CISM
4 24 (15.48%) DV Cleared
5 22 (14.19%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.45%) CESG Certified Professional
7 9 (5.81%) CRISC
8 8 (5.16%) Degree
8 8 (5.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (3.23%) CLAS
10 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.94%) CISA
11 3 (1.94%) GIAC
12 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.29%) OSCP
12 2 (1.29%) SANS
13 1 (0.65%) CCIE Security
13 1 (0.65%) CCSM
13 1 (0.65%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (27.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (24.52%) NIST
3 15 (9.68%) RMADS
4 11 (7.10%) NCSC
5 9 (5.81%) GRC
5 9 (5.81%) PCI DSS
6 8 (5.16%) GDPR
7 7 (4.52%) JSP 440
7 7 (4.52%) NIST 800
8 6 (3.87%) COBIT
9 5 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 5 (3.23%) QA
10 4 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (1.29%) COSO
12 2 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) Ansible
1 5 (3.23%) CASB
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.29%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) Istio
3 1 (0.65%) Kibana
3 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) logstash
3 1 (0.65%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.65%) QRadar
3 1 (0.65%) SCCM
3 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.97%) SAP
3 11 (7.10%) Splunk
4 10 (6.45%) Palo Alto
5 8 (5.16%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (3.23%) Cisco
6 5 (3.23%) Oracle
7 4 (2.58%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.58%) Planview
8 3 (1.94%) Broadcom
8 3 (1.94%) Symantec
8 3 (1.94%) Tenable
9 2 (1.29%) ExtraHop
9 2 (1.29%) FireEye
9 2 (1.29%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.29%) McAfee
9 2 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.29%) Trend Micro
9 2 (1.29%) VMware
9 2 (1.29%) Zscaler