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 12 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 366 336
Rank change year-on-year +7 -30 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 260 123 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.50% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.54% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 93 153
10th Percentile £413 £415 £468
25th Percentile £488 £500 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £700
90th Percentile £774 £725 £810
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.93 -
25th Percentile £61.13 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.68% - -
75th Percentile £63.38 £60.36 -
90th Percentile - £76.49 -
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £31.49 -
% change year-on-year +97.68% - -

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 39,391 22,646 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.37% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,290 14,886 22,782
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,775 990 2,657
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -24.58% -13.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -16.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -13 114 £538 +2.38% 32
North of England -34 44 £550 - 22
Midlands -38 36 £563 -13.46% 4
West Midlands -35 32 £563 -13.46% 3
North West -5 31 £513 -6.82% 10
South East -70 24 £563 -1.32% 9
South West -13 21 £650 +10.64% 20
Yorkshire -40 13 £550 +4.76% 7
East of England -20 6 £663 +20.45% 1
East Midlands -20 4 £500 - 1
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 116 (44.62%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (32.31%) Security Cleared
3 69 (26.54%) SC Cleared
4 59 (22.69%) NIST
5 51 (19.62%) Information Security
6 46 (17.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (17.31%) CISSP
8 37 (14.23%) Microsoft
9 36 (13.85%) Azure
10 35 (13.46%) Risk Management
11 33 (12.69%) CISM
12 31 (11.92%) Vulnerability Management
13 30 (11.54%) AWS
14 29 (11.15%) Application Security
14 29 (11.15%) Cloud Security
14 29 (11.15%) Threat Modelling
15 25 (9.62%) Penetration Testing
16 24 (9.23%) Agile
17 23 (8.85%) NCSC
17 23 (8.85%) Security Operations
18 22 (8.46%) GRC
18 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
19 21 (8.08%) Cryptography
20 20 (7.69%) PCI DSS
20 20 (7.69%) Security Testing
21 19 (7.31%) DevSecOps
21 19 (7.31%) Security Architecture
21 19 (7.31%) Security Management
22 18 (6.92%) Degree

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 9 (3.46%) Confluence
2 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.31%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 36 (13.85%) Azure
2 30 (11.54%) AWS
3 16 (6.15%) GCP
4 10 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.46%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.15%) Serverless
8 2 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.77%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.77%) OCI
8 2 (0.77%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.77%) SaaS
8 2 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.38%) GitHub
9 1 (0.38%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.38%) Network Security
2 12 (4.62%) Firewall
3 5 (1.92%) HTTP
3 5 (1.92%) WAN
4 4 (1.54%) VPN
5 3 (1.15%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.15%) LAN
6 2 (0.77%) BGP
6 2 (0.77%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.77%) IPsec
6 2 (0.77%) MPLS
6 2 (0.77%) NGFW
6 2 (0.77%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.38%) DKIM
7 1 (0.38%) DMARC
7 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.38%) VLAN
7 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.54%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.38%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.38%) Power BI
2 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (3.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.38%) Git
2 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (18.85%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.23%) Finance
3 14 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.31%) Banking
5 6 (2.31%) Legal
6 4 (1.54%) Aviation
6 4 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Law
8 2 (0.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.38%) Advertising
9 1 (0.38%) Electronics
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.38%) Police
9 1 (0.38%) Publishing
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.08%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (2.31%) RESTful
3 3 (1.15%) LDAP
3 3 (1.15%) SLSA
4 2 (0.77%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.77%) J2EE
4 2 (0.77%) JSP
5 1 (0.38%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.38%) OAuth
5 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.62%) Security Posture
2 17 (6.54%) Operational Technology
3 10 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.69%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.92%) BYOD
7 4 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.15%) PKI
9 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.77%) SCADA
10 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.38%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.00%) Linux
1 13 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (0.77%) zOS
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (44.62%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (19.62%) Information Security
3 35 (13.46%) Risk Management
4 31 (11.92%) Vulnerability Management
5 29 (11.15%) Application Security
5 29 (11.15%) Cloud Security
5 29 (11.15%) Threat Modelling
6 25 (9.62%) Penetration Testing
7 24 (9.23%) Agile
8 23 (8.85%) Security Operations
9 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (8.08%) Cryptography
11 20 (7.69%) Security Testing
12 19 (7.31%) DevSecOps
12 19 (7.31%) Security Architecture
12 19 (7.31%) Security Management
13 18 (6.92%) Roadmaps
14 16 (6.15%) Risk Assessment
15 15 (5.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (1.15%) Java
2 3 (1.15%) Python
3 2 (0.77%) RPG
4 1 (0.38%) Bash
4 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 84 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 69 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 45 (17.31%) CISSP
4 33 (12.69%) CISM
5 18 (6.92%) Degree
5 18 (6.92%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.38%) CEH
6 14 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (4.62%) CCSP
9 10 (3.85%) OSCP
10 7 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (1.54%) CCSK
12 4 (1.54%) CISA
13 3 (1.15%) CRISC
13 3 (1.15%) GIAC
14 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (22.69%) NIST
2 46 (17.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.85%) NCSC
4 22 (8.46%) GRC
5 20 (7.69%) PCI DSS
6 13 (5.00%) GDPR
7 11 (4.23%) COBIT
8 7 (2.69%) JSP 440
8 7 (2.69%) QA
9 5 (1.92%) RMADS
9 5 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.77%) ITGC
11 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.38%) ISA99
11 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.54%) IAG
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.38%) Docker
4 1 (0.38%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.54%) Terraform
3 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.85%) SAP
3 8 (3.08%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.31%) Splunk
5 5 (1.92%) Tenable
6 3 (1.15%) Cisco
6 3 (1.15%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.15%) Databricks
6 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.15%) Google
7 2 (0.77%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.77%) F5
7 2 (0.77%) Juniper
7 2 (0.77%) VMware
7 2 (0.77%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.38%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.38%) Okta
8 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.38%) Veracode
82 Security Consultant jobs in England