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 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 356 346
Rank change year-on-year -49 -10 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 143 142 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.51% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.55% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 92 155
10th Percentile £448 £500 £455
25th Percentile £486 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +7.76% -3.33% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £71.54 £53.70
25th Percentile £57.50 £72.08 £59.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £73.56 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% +7.39% -7.12%
75th Percentile £72.50 £74.45 £77.75
90th Percentile - £74.63 £83.30
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £73.56 £68.50
% change year-on-year -11.64% +7.39% -7.12%

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 28,971 25,853 34,065
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.86% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,558 16,013 23,269
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% - -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 1,739 810 1,452
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £61.38 £64.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.45 £74.47 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.66% -27.78% +41.02%

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 2 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 2 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 -31 62 £613 +9.62% 19
South West +10 27 £675 -0.37% 7
South East -21 16 £538 -6.52% 6
North of England -47 14 £492 -15.90% 4
North West -40 10 £502 -8.68% 3
East of England -18 5 £750 +9.09% 4
West Midlands -35 5 £650 +28.08% 4
Midlands -36 5 £650 +28.08% 6
Yorkshire -49 4 £484 -29.93% 1
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 67 (46.85%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (34.97%) Security Cleared
3 39 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 37 (25.87%) CISSP
4 37 (25.87%) Risk Management
5 36 (25.17%) Cloud Security
6 33 (23.08%) CISM
7 31 (21.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (20.28%) Microsoft
8 29 (20.28%) NIST
9 26 (18.18%) Incident Response
10 25 (17.48%) Azure
11 19 (13.29%) AWS
12 18 (12.59%) Roadmaps
13 17 (11.89%) Information Security
13 17 (11.89%) Security Architecture
13 17 (11.89%) SIEM
14 16 (11.19%) AI
14 16 (11.19%) Firewall
15 15 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (9.79%) DV Cleared
16 14 (9.79%) GCP
16 14 (9.79%) NCSC
16 14 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (9.79%) Threat Modelling
17 13 (9.09%) Agile
17 13 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
18 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
18 12 (8.39%) Zero Trust
19 11 (7.69%) Entra ID

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 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.48%) Azure
2 19 (13.29%) AWS
3 14 (9.79%) GCP
4 11 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.10%) SaaS
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.70%) Akamai
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.70%) OCI
10 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.19%) Firewall
2 10 (6.99%) Network Security
3 6 (4.20%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.40%) DNS
4 2 (1.40%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.40%) Modbus
4 2 (1.40%) SSL
4 2 (1.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.70%) DHCP
5 1 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) EDRMS
1 1 (0.70%) Power BI
1 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.70%) JIRA
1 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.58%) Finance
3 13 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.90%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.90%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.20%) Electronics
5 6 (4.20%) Legal
5 6 (4.20%) Marketing
6 4 (2.80%) Local Government
7 3 (2.10%) Banking
7 3 (2.10%) Law
8 2 (1.40%) Police
9 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
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%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.29%) LDAP
2 1 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (0.70%) JWT
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.88%) Security Posture
2 5 (3.50%) Operational Technology
3 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.10%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.40%) IoT
5 2 (1.40%) PKI
5 2 (1.40%) SCADA
6 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.70%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Linux
1 3 (2.10%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Unix
2 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (46.85%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (25.87%) Risk Management
3 36 (25.17%) Cloud Security
4 26 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 18 (12.59%) Roadmaps
6 17 (11.89%) Information Security
6 17 (11.89%) Security Architecture
6 17 (11.89%) SIEM
7 16 (11.19%) AI
8 15 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (9.79%) Threat Modelling
10 13 (9.09%) Agile
10 13 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (8.39%) Zero Trust
12 10 (6.99%) Regulatory Compliance
13 9 (6.29%) DevSecOps
14 8 (5.59%) Identity Management
14 8 (5.59%) Security Operations
15 7 (4.90%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.59%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.20%) Python
3 5 (3.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.40%) Bash
4 2 (1.40%) Bicep
5 1 (0.70%) C
5 1 (0.70%) C++
5 1 (0.70%) R
5 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (34.97%) Security Cleared
2 39 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 37 (25.87%) CISSP
4 33 (23.08%) CISM
5 14 (9.79%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.20%) CRISC
6 6 (4.20%) Degree
6 6 (4.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 5 (3.50%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (3.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.80%) CEH
8 4 (2.80%) CISA
9 3 (2.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.40%) CLAS
10 2 (1.40%) GIAC
11 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (20.28%) NIST
3 14 (9.79%) NCSC
4 10 (6.99%) GDPR
5 9 (6.29%) GRC
6 6 (4.20%) RMADS
7 5 (3.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 5 (3.50%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.80%) JSP 440
9 3 (2.10%) COBIT
9 3 (2.10%) EU AI Act
9 3 (2.10%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.10%) Terraform
2 2 (1.40%) Ansible
2 2 (1.40%) CASB
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.70%) Istio
3 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.70%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 29 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) Google
3 7 (4.90%) Splunk
4 6 (4.20%) SAP
5 5 (3.50%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.80%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.80%) Tenable
7 3 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.40%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.40%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.40%) ExtraHop
8 2 (1.40%) FireEye
8 2 (1.40%) McAfee
8 2 (1.40%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.40%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.70%) Clearswift
9 1 (0.70%) Imperva
9 1 (0.70%) Intel
9 1 (0.70%) Red Hat