Security Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £559, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 336 341
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 149 188 263
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.60% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.64% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 115 182
10th Percentile £444 £430 £439
25th Percentile £480 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +0.22% -8.20%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £773 £764 £770
UK median daily rate £550 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £27.93 £71.54 £53.70
25th Percentile £28.52 £72.08 £59.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £73.56 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.19% +7.39% -5.52%
75th Percentile £60.36 £74.45 £77.75
90th Percentile £76.49 £74.63 £83.30
UK median hourly rate £31.49 £73.56 £68.50
% change year-on-year -57.19% +7.39% -5.52%

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 25,866 29,369 38,361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 93.02% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,630 17,923 26,734
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
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 1,473 1,192 1,407
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.86 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +67.17%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 21 October 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 -27 64 £538 -5.91% 29
South East +4 27 £500 -15.07% 22
South West +19 23 £675 +3.85% 23
North of England -39 17 £492 -14.06% 8
North West -29 12 £492 -10.55% 2
East of England +1 7 £750 +9.09% 2
Midlands -22 6 £625 +13.64% 5
West Midlands -19 5 £638 +23.79% 3
Yorkshire -30 4 £484 -28.37% 6
East Midlands - 1 £400 - 2
North East - 1 £600 -
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, 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 57 (38.26%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (32.21%) Security Cleared
3 40 (26.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (26.85%) Risk Management
4 38 (25.50%) CISSP
5 35 (23.49%) Cloud Security
5 35 (23.49%) NIST
6 30 (20.13%) CISM
7 28 (18.79%) Information Security
8 26 (17.45%) SC Cleared
9 21 (14.09%) DV Cleared
9 21 (14.09%) Incident Response
10 20 (13.42%) AWS
10 20 (13.42%) Microsoft
10 20 (13.42%) Threat Modelling
11 19 (12.75%) Security Architecture
12 17 (11.41%) AI
13 16 (10.74%) SIEM
14 15 (10.07%) Azure
14 15 (10.07%) Firewall
14 15 (10.07%) GCP
14 15 (10.07%) Roadmaps
14 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (9.40%) Identity Access Management
15 14 (9.40%) RMADS
16 13 (8.72%) Agile
16 13 (8.72%) Network Security
17 12 (8.05%) Data Protection
17 12 (8.05%) Regulatory Compliance
17 12 (8.05%) SAP

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 2 (1.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Oracle CRM
1 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.42%) AWS
2 15 (10.07%) Azure
2 15 (10.07%) GCP
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.36%) SaaS
4 4 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.68%) OCI
5 3 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (1.34%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (1.34%) IaaS
6 2 (1.34%) PaaS
7 1 (0.67%) Akamai
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.07%) Firewall
2 13 (8.72%) Network Security
3 5 (3.36%) DNS
4 4 (2.68%) VPN
5 3 (2.01%) SSL
6 2 (1.34%) DHCP
6 2 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.67%) Modbus
7 1 (0.67%) NAS
7 1 (0.67%) NGFW
7 1 (0.67%) SAN
7 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) Power BI
1 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.01%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.83%) Finance
3 22 (14.77%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.40%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.38%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.71%) Electronics
6 10 (6.71%) Marketing
7 8 (5.37%) Legal
8 5 (3.36%) Local Government
9 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Police
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.67%) JWT
2 1 (0.67%) LDAP
2 1 (0.67%) REST
2 1 (0.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.09%) Security Posture
2 6 (4.03%) PKI
3 5 (3.36%) Operational Technology
3 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.01%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.34%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (1.34%) IoT
6 2 (1.34%) NHS
6 2 (1.34%) SCADA
6 2 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Clustering
7 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Linux
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) CentOS
2 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.26%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (26.85%) Risk Management
3 35 (23.49%) Cloud Security
4 28 (18.79%) Information Security
5 21 (14.09%) Incident Response
6 20 (13.42%) Threat Modelling
7 19 (12.75%) Security Architecture
8 17 (11.41%) AI
9 16 (10.74%) SIEM
10 15 (10.07%) Roadmaps
10 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (9.40%) Identity Access Management
12 13 (8.72%) Agile
13 12 (8.05%) Data Protection
13 12 (8.05%) Regulatory Compliance
13 12 (8.05%) Security Operations
14 11 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (7.38%) DevSecOps
14 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 10 (6.71%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.01%) Python
2 2 (1.34%) Bash
2 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.67%) Bicep
3 1 (0.67%) C
3 1 (0.67%) C++
3 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.67%) R
3 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.50%) CISSP
3 30 (20.13%) CISM
4 26 (17.45%) SC Cleared
5 21 (14.09%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.04%) CESG Certified Professional
7 6 (4.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 5 (3.36%) Degree
9 4 (2.68%) CLAS
9 4 (2.68%) CRISC
10 3 (2.01%) CEH
10 3 (2.01%) CISA
11 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.34%) GIAC
11 2 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (1.34%) OSCP
11 2 (1.34%) SANS
12 1 (0.67%) CCIE Security
12 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.67%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (26.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (23.49%) NIST
3 14 (9.40%) RMADS
4 11 (7.38%) GDPR
4 11 (7.38%) NCSC
5 8 (5.37%) GRC
6 6 (4.03%) COBIT
6 6 (4.03%) JSP 440
6 6 (4.03%) NIST 800
6 6 (4.03%) PCI DSS
7 5 (3.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (2.01%) EU AI Act
9 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (1.34%) COSO
10 2 (1.34%) QA
10 2 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) CASB
2 2 (1.34%) Ansible
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.34%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Istio
3 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.67%) SCCM
3 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.05%) SAP
3 10 (6.71%) Splunk
4 9 (6.04%) Google
5 8 (5.37%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (4.03%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.36%) Cisco
7 5 (3.36%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.36%) Oracle
8 3 (2.01%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.01%) Symantec
9 2 (1.34%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.34%) ExtraHop
9 2 (1.34%) FireEye
9 2 (1.34%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.34%) McAfee
9 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.34%) Tenable
9 2 (1.34%) Trend Micro