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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 355 368
Rank change year-on-year -52 +13 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 142 133 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.50% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.54% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 86 142
10th Percentile £445 £481 £483
25th Percentile £480 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £606 £610
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -0.61% -2.40%
75th Percentile £713 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £750 £824
UK median daily rate £600 £593 £600
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -
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 29,794 24,851 34,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.97% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 15,358 23,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -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 1,844 750 1,852
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%

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 24 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 24 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 -16 62 £563 +0.67% 22
South West -3 24 £675 +3.85% 14
North of England -67 16 £492 -19.87% 9
South East -26 13 £480 -24.71% 13
North West -36 12 £502 -8.68% 5
Midlands -44 9 £800 +28.00% 2
West Midlands -44 9 £800 +28.00%
East of England -14 5 £750 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire -58 4 £484 -29.93% 4
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 (47.89%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (35.21%) Security Cleared
3 41 (28.87%) SC Cleared
4 38 (26.76%) Risk Management
5 33 (23.24%) Cloud Security
6 30 (21.13%) NIST
7 29 (20.42%) Microsoft
8 28 (19.72%) CISSP
8 28 (19.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 25 (17.61%) Incident Response
10 23 (16.20%) Azure
10 23 (16.20%) CISM
11 20 (14.08%) Information Security
12 18 (12.68%) AWS
13 16 (11.27%) AI
13 16 (11.27%) Roadmaps
13 16 (11.27%) Security Architecture
13 16 (11.27%) Threat Modelling
14 15 (10.56%) SIEM
14 15 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (9.86%) Firewall
16 13 (9.15%) GCP
17 12 (8.45%) Active Directory
17 12 (8.45%) Agile
17 12 (8.45%) DV Cleared
17 12 (8.45%) Zero Trust
18 11 (7.75%) Entra ID
19 10 (7.04%) GDPR
19 10 (7.04%) NCSC

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 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.20%) Azure
2 18 (12.68%) AWS
3 13 (9.15%) GCP
4 11 (7.75%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.11%) SaaS
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.41%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.70%) Akamai
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.86%) Firewall
2 8 (5.63%) Network Security
3 6 (4.23%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.41%) DNS
4 2 (1.41%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.41%) Modbus
4 2 (1.41%) SSL
4 2 (1.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.70%) DHCP
5 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.41%) Power BI
2 1 (0.70%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 34 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.20%) Finance
3 9 (6.34%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.93%) Legal
5 6 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Electronics
7 3 (2.11%) Local Government
7 3 (2.11%) Marketing
8 2 (1.41%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Military
9 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.34%) LDAP
2 2 (1.41%) J2EE
2 2 (1.41%) JSP
3 1 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.70%) JWT
3 1 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.72%) Security Posture
2 6 (4.23%) Operational Technology
3 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.11%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.41%) IoT
5 2 (1.41%) SCADA
6 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.70%) Clustering
6 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.70%) Insider Threat
6 1 (0.70%) NHS
6 1 (0.70%) PKI
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.11%) Linux
1 3 (2.11%) Windows
2 2 (1.41%) zOS
3 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (47.89%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (26.76%) Risk Management
3 33 (23.24%) Cloud Security
4 25 (17.61%) Incident Response
5 20 (14.08%) Information Security
6 16 (11.27%) AI
6 16 (11.27%) Roadmaps
6 16 (11.27%) Security Architecture
6 16 (11.27%) Threat Modelling
7 15 (10.56%) SIEM
7 15 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (8.45%) Agile
8 12 (8.45%) Zero Trust
9 9 (6.34%) DevSecOps
9 9 (6.34%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (6.34%) Identity Management
9 9 (6.34%) Regulatory Compliance
9 9 (6.34%) SDLC
10 8 (5.63%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (3.52%) Python
3 2 (1.41%) Bash
3 2 (1.41%) Bicep
3 2 (1.41%) Java
3 2 (1.41%) RPG
4 1 (0.70%) C
4 1 (0.70%) C++
4 1 (0.70%) R
4 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 41 (28.87%) SC Cleared
3 28 (19.72%) CISSP
4 23 (16.20%) CISM
5 12 (8.45%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.23%) CRISC
6 6 (4.23%) Degree
7 5 (3.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.11%) CEH
8 3 (2.11%) CISA
8 3 (2.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.41%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (1.41%) CLAS
9 2 (1.41%) GIAC
9 2 (1.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.13%) NIST
2 28 (19.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.04%) GDPR
3 10 (7.04%) NCSC
4 9 (6.34%) GRC
5 5 (3.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 5 (3.52%) JSP 440
5 5 (3.52%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.11%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.41%) COBIT
7 2 (1.41%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.41%) RMADS
8 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (8.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.11%) Terraform
2 2 (1.41%) Ansible
2 2 (1.41%) CASB
3 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.70%) Istio
3 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.70%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.63%) Google
3 6 (4.23%) Splunk
4 5 (3.52%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.82%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.82%) Tenable
6 3 (2.11%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.11%) SAP
7 2 (1.41%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.41%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.41%) ExtraHop
7 2 (1.41%) FireEye
7 2 (1.41%) McAfee
7 2 (1.41%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.70%) Clearswift
8 1 (0.70%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.70%) Okta
8 1 (0.70%) Zscaler