Security Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 358 327
Rank change year-on-year +7 -31 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 282 151 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.55% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.60% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 114 143
10th Percentile £408 £419 £460
25th Percentile £459 £493 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £559 £585
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -4.49% +6.36%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £681
90th Percentile £675 £734 £786
UK median daily rate £553 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +0.55% -5.98% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.93 -
25th Percentile £61.13 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +142.93% - -
75th Percentile £78.78 £60.36 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £76.49 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £31.49 -
% change year-on-year +142.93% - -

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 42,226 25,298 31,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.69% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,604 16,413 20,392
10th Percentile £326 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,151 1,307 1,820
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.61 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.56 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.54% -42.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% -

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 7 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

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 7 August 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 -39 103 £538 +1.18% 58
North of England -40 49 £514 -2.10% 19
South West -14 41 £556 -17.63% 33
South East -61 37 £556 +1.14% 11
Midlands -29 35 £500 -23.08% 5
North West -22 31 £475 -9.52% 14
West Midlands -38 31 £563 -16.67% 5
Yorkshire -24 17 £550 +4.76% 2
East of England -17 6 £663 - 3
East Midlands -10 4 £500 +25.00%
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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.

1 130 (46.10%) Cybersecurity
2 97 (34.40%) Security Cleared
3 80 (28.37%) SC Cleared
4 63 (22.34%) NIST
5 55 (19.50%) Information Security
6 53 (18.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (17.73%) CISSP
8 45 (15.96%) Risk Management
9 43 (15.25%) Azure
10 41 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (14.18%) Microsoft
12 39 (13.83%) Vulnerability Management
13 36 (12.77%) CISM
14 35 (12.41%) Application Security
15 33 (11.70%) AWS
16 32 (11.35%) Cloud Security
16 32 (11.35%) GRC
17 29 (10.28%) Security Management
18 28 (9.93%) Cryptography
18 28 (9.93%) Penetration Testing
18 28 (9.93%) Threat Modelling
19 25 (8.87%) Security Operations
20 22 (7.80%) DevSecOps
20 22 (7.80%) Incident Management
20 22 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 21 (7.45%) PCI DSS
21 21 (7.45%) Roadmaps
21 21 (7.45%) SAP
22 20 (7.09%) Agile
22 20 (7.09%) Network Security

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 11 (3.90%) Confluence
2 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (6.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.84%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.25%) Azure
2 33 (11.70%) AWS
3 18 (6.38%) GCP
4 12 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.19%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.48%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.42%) OCI
9 3 (1.06%) Serverless
10 2 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.71%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.71%) GitHub
10 2 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.71%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.71%) SaaS
11 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.09%) Network Security
2 16 (5.67%) Firewall
3 7 (2.48%) WAN
4 5 (1.77%) HTTP
5 4 (1.42%) BGP
5 4 (1.42%) VPN
6 3 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.06%) IPsec
6 3 (1.06%) LAN
6 3 (1.06%) MPLS
7 2 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.71%) DNS
7 2 (0.71%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.71%) NGFW
7 2 (0.71%) OSPF
7 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.71%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.71%) X.509
8 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.61%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (3.55%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) MSI
3 1 (0.35%) Snyk
3 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 62 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.28%) Finance
3 18 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.13%) Aviation
6 6 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.13%) Legal
7 5 (1.77%) Banking
8 4 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.19%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (2.13%) RESTful
3 3 (1.06%) REST
3 3 (1.06%) SLSA
4 2 (0.71%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.71%) JSON
4 2 (0.71%) OAuth
4 2 (0.71%) SAML
5 1 (0.35%) Itk
5 1 (0.35%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.09%) Security Posture
2 18 (6.38%) Operational Technology
3 14 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.48%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.48%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.77%) BYOD
6 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.42%) PKI
7 4 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.71%) SCADA
10 1 (0.35%) CMDB
10 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.35%) Life Science
10 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.74%) Windows
2 16 (5.67%) Linux
3 2 (0.71%) Android
3 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (46.10%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (19.50%) Information Security
3 45 (15.96%) Risk Management
4 41 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (13.83%) Vulnerability Management
6 35 (12.41%) Application Security
7 32 (11.35%) Cloud Security
8 29 (10.28%) Security Management
9 28 (9.93%) Cryptography
9 28 (9.93%) Penetration Testing
9 28 (9.93%) Threat Modelling
10 25 (8.87%) Security Operations
11 22 (7.80%) DevSecOps
11 22 (7.80%) Incident Management
11 22 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (7.45%) Roadmaps
13 20 (7.09%) Agile
13 20 (7.09%) Security Architecture
13 20 (7.09%) Security Testing
14 19 (6.74%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (2.13%) Python
3 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.71%) Bash
4 2 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 97 (34.40%) Security Cleared
2 80 (28.37%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.73%) CISSP
4 36 (12.77%) CISM
5 19 (6.74%) Degree
6 18 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (6.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 15 (5.32%) DV Cleared
9 13 (4.61%) CEH
10 12 (4.26%) CCSP
11 11 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (3.55%) OSCP
13 8 (2.84%) CRISC
13 8 (2.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
16 4 (1.42%) CISA
16 4 (1.42%) ISACA
17 3 (1.06%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (22.34%) NIST
2 53 (18.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (11.35%) GRC
4 21 (7.45%) PCI DSS
5 17 (6.03%) NCSC
6 14 (4.96%) GDPR
7 10 (3.55%) COBIT
8 9 (3.19%) QA
9 5 (1.77%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.77%) NIST 800
9 5 (1.77%) RMADS
9 5 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.42%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.71%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.71%) ITGC
11 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.77%) IAG
2 3 (1.06%) Docker
3 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.35%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.13%) Terraform
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.42%) SCCM
4 3 (1.06%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 40 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.45%) SAP
3 8 (2.84%) Palo Alto
4 7 (2.48%) Splunk
5 5 (1.77%) Cisco
5 5 (1.77%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.42%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.42%) Google
6 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.42%) Tenable
6 4 (1.42%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.06%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.06%) Databricks
8 2 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.71%) F5
8 2 (0.71%) Juniper
8 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.71%) Tanium
8 2 (0.71%) VMware
9 1 (0.35%) OpenAI