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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 362 343
Rank change year-on-year -38 -19 +115
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 140 152 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.57% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 101 157
10th Percentile £448 £500 £458
25th Percentile £483 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £746 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +1.27%
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% -5.52%
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% -5.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,847 26,756 34,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.94% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,393 16,655 23,374
10th Percentile £294 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
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 1,772 837 1,370
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.74 £15.24
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.40 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% -22.58% +39.02%
75th Percentile £60.34 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.95 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -32 61 £593 +6.04% 32
South West +13 27 £675 -0.37% 17
South East -16 17 £538 -11.34% 26
North of England -61 14 £492 -15.90% 10
North West -40 10 £502 -8.68% 2
East of England -15 5 £750 +9.09% 8
West Midlands -23 5 £650 +28.08% 8
Midlands -41 5 £650 +28.08% 17
Yorkshire -37 4 £484 -30.93% 7
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 64 (45.71%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (33.57%) Security Cleared
3 39 (27.86%) CISSP
4 37 (26.43%) Risk Management
5 36 (25.71%) Cloud Security
6 35 (25.00%) SC Cleared
7 34 (24.29%) CISM
8 33 (23.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 29 (20.71%) NIST
10 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
11 25 (17.86%) Azure
12 24 (17.14%) Incident Response
13 20 (14.29%) Information Security
14 18 (12.86%) AWS
15 17 (12.14%) Roadmaps
15 17 (12.14%) Security Architecture
16 16 (11.43%) AI
16 16 (11.43%) Firewall
16 16 (11.43%) SIEM
16 16 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
17 15 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
18 14 (10.00%) GCP
18 14 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
19 13 (9.29%) DV Cleared
19 13 (9.29%) NCSC
20 11 (7.86%) Active Directory
20 11 (7.86%) Regulatory Compliance
20 11 (7.86%) Zero Trust
21 10 (7.14%) Agile

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 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle CRM
1 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.86%) Azure
2 18 (12.86%) AWS
3 14 (10.00%) GCP
4 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.14%) SaaS
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.43%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.71%) Akamai
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.71%) OCI
10 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.43%) Firewall
2 10 (7.14%) Network Security
3 5 (3.57%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.43%) DNS
4 2 (1.43%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.43%) Modbus
4 2 (1.43%) SSL
4 2 (1.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.71%) DHCP
5 1 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.71%) EDRMS
1 1 (0.71%) Power BI
1 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) JIRA
1 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.43%) Finance
3 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 8 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.00%) Electronics
5 7 (5.00%) Legal
5 7 (5.00%) Marketing
6 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Local Government
8 3 (2.14%) Banking
8 3 (2.14%) Law
9 2 (1.43%) Police
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) LDAP
2 1 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (0.71%) JWT
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.29%) Security Posture
2 5 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) PKI
4 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.14%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.43%) IoT
5 2 (1.43%) SCADA
6 1 (0.71%) Clustering
6 1 (0.71%) CMDB
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.71%) NHS
6 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
1 3 (2.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
2 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (45.71%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (26.43%) Risk Management
3 36 (25.71%) Cloud Security
4 24 (17.14%) Incident Response
5 20 (14.29%) Information Security
6 17 (12.14%) Roadmaps
6 17 (12.14%) Security Architecture
7 16 (11.43%) AI
7 16 (11.43%) SIEM
7 16 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
8 15 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (7.86%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (7.86%) Zero Trust
11 10 (7.14%) Agile
12 9 (6.43%) DevSecOps
12 9 (6.43%) Security Operations
13 8 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (5.71%) Cyber Resilience
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.29%) Python
3 5 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.43%) Bash
4 2 (1.43%) Bicep
5 1 (0.71%) C
5 1 (0.71%) C++
5 1 (0.71%) R
5 1 (0.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (33.57%) Security Cleared
2 39 (27.86%) CISSP
3 35 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 34 (24.29%) CISM
5 13 (9.29%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 6 (4.29%) CESG Certified Professional
7 6 (4.29%) CRISC
7 6 (4.29%) Degree
8 5 (3.57%) CISA
9 4 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.14%) CEH
10 3 (2.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.43%) CLAS
12 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.71%) CGEIT
12 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (20.71%) NIST
3 13 (9.29%) NCSC
4 10 (7.14%) GDPR
5 9 (6.43%) GRC
6 7 (5.00%) RMADS
7 5 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (3.57%) COBIT
7 5 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 5 (3.57%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.86%) JSP 440
9 3 (2.14%) EU AI Act
9 3 (2.14%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.43%) COSO
10 2 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (7.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Terraform
2 2 (1.43%) Ansible
2 2 (1.43%) CASB
3 1 (0.71%) Istio
3 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.71%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.71%) Google
2 8 (5.71%) SAP
3 7 (5.00%) Splunk
4 6 (4.29%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.14%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.14%) Tenable
8 2 (1.43%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.43%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.43%) ExtraHop
8 2 (1.43%) FireEye
8 2 (1.43%) McAfee
8 2 (1.43%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.43%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.71%) Clearswift
9 1 (0.71%) Intel
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle
9 1 (0.71%) Red Hat