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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 375 364
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 232 107 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.47% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 81 146
10th Percentile £413 £463 £468
25th Percentile £485 £513 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £714
90th Percentile £777 £738 £838
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 36,696 22,801 34,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.69% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,998 15,199 22,979
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 888 2,404
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.14% -9.26% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £29.23 £35.50
% change year-on-year +45.40% -17.66% -21.11%

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 April 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 April 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 -4 111 £538 -2.27% 18
Midlands -37 29 £563 -13.46% 12
South East -46 29 £563 -6.25% 11
West Midlands -36 28 £563 -13.46% 6
South West -20 23 £650 +4.00% 9
North of England -59 18 £550 -15.06% 3
North West -27 16 £550 -5.58% 2
East of England -30 5 £663 +20.45% 1
Yorkshire -52 2 - - 1
East Midlands -35 1 £500 - 6
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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.

1 106 (45.69%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (33.62%) Security Cleared
3 66 (28.45%) SC Cleared
4 56 (24.14%) NIST
5 53 (22.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (20.26%) Information Security
7 42 (18.10%) CISSP
8 39 (16.81%) Risk Management
9 37 (15.95%) Azure
10 34 (14.66%) Microsoft
11 32 (13.79%) CISM
12 30 (12.93%) Cloud Security
13 24 (10.34%) AWS
14 21 (9.05%) Threat Modelling
15 20 (8.62%) Agile
16 19 (8.19%) Application Security
17 18 (7.76%) DV Cleared
17 18 (7.76%) Incident Response
17 18 (7.76%) PCI DSS
17 18 (7.76%) Security Architecture
18 17 (7.33%) GRC
18 17 (7.33%) Risk Assessment
18 17 (7.33%) Roadmaps
19 16 (6.90%) Degree
19 16 (6.90%) DevSecOps
19 16 (6.90%) Security Operations
20 15 (6.47%) NCSC
20 15 (6.47%) Penetration Testing
20 15 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 14 (6.03%) GDPR

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 4 (1.72%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.86%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.95%) Azure
2 24 (10.34%) AWS
3 12 (5.17%) Entra ID
4 11 (4.74%) GCP
5 10 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.86%) OCI
8 2 (0.86%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.86%) SaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Akamai
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.43%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.43%) GitHub
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.31%) Firewall
1 10 (4.31%) Network Security
2 6 (2.59%) Kerberos
3 5 (2.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.86%) NGFW
4 2 (0.86%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.43%) DHCP
5 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.43%) IPsec
5 1 (0.43%) Modbus
5 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) VLAN
5 1 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.86%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.43%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.43%) Power BI
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (14.66%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.62%) Finance
3 11 (4.74%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.59%) Banking
5 6 (2.59%) Legal
6 4 (1.72%) Law
7 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.29%) Electronics
7 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.86%) Marketing
8 2 (0.86%) Retail
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Military
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.88%) LDAP
2 3 (1.29%) RESTful
2 3 (1.29%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (0.86%) J2EE
3 2 (0.86%) JSP
4 1 (0.43%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.43%) OAuth
4 1 (0.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.07%) Security Posture
2 18 (7.76%) Operational Technology
3 10 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.16%) BYOD
6 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.72%) PKI
6 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.86%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.43%) CMDB
9 1 (0.43%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.43%) IoT
9 1 (0.43%) NHS
9 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.59%) Windows
2 5 (2.16%) Linux
3 2 (0.86%) zOS
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (45.69%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (20.26%) Information Security
3 39 (16.81%) Risk Management
4 30 (12.93%) Cloud Security
5 21 (9.05%) Threat Modelling
6 20 (8.62%) Agile
7 19 (8.19%) Application Security
8 18 (7.76%) Incident Response
8 18 (7.76%) Security Architecture
9 17 (7.33%) Risk Assessment
9 17 (7.33%) Roadmaps
10 16 (6.90%) DevSecOps
10 16 (6.90%) Security Operations
11 15 (6.47%) Penetration Testing
11 15 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (6.03%) Security Testing
12 14 (6.03%) Vulnerability Management
13 13 (5.60%) Security Management
13 13 (5.60%) Zero Trust
14 11 (4.74%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.02%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (2.16%) Python
4 2 (0.86%) Java
4 2 (0.86%) RPG
5 1 (0.43%) Bash
5 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 78 (33.62%) Security Cleared
2 66 (28.45%) SC Cleared
3 42 (18.10%) CISSP
4 32 (13.79%) CISM
5 18 (7.76%) DV Cleared
6 16 (6.90%) Degree
7 8 (3.45%) CEH
7 8 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.59%) CCSP
9 6 (2.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (2.16%) CISA
10 5 (2.16%) CRISC
11 4 (1.72%) OSCP
12 3 (1.29%) GIAC
13 2 (0.86%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.86%) CGEIT
13 2 (0.86%) CISMP
13 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (24.14%) NIST
2 53 (22.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.76%) PCI DSS
4 17 (7.33%) GRC
5 15 (6.47%) NCSC
6 14 (6.03%) GDPR
7 9 (3.88%) COBIT
7 9 (3.88%) JSP 440
8 7 (3.02%) RMADS
9 5 (2.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.86%) ITGC
11 2 (0.86%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.86%) QA
12 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.43%) ISA99
System Software
1 13 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.86%) IAG
Systems Management
1 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.29%) Terraform
2 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
2 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.43%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 34 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.02%) Splunk
3 6 (2.59%) SAP
4 5 (2.16%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.72%) Tenable
6 3 (1.29%) Databricks
6 3 (1.29%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.43%) Acunetix
7 1 (0.43%) Ariba
7 1 (0.43%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.43%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco
7 1 (0.43%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) Imperva
7 1 (0.43%) Netsparker
7 1 (0.43%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.43%) Veracode