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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 347 336
Rank change year-on-year -19 -11 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 287 156 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.62% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 114 127
10th Percentile £413 £419 £450
25th Percentile £466 £492 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £556 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.35% +6.48%
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 42,401 25,041 30,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 91.40% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,455 16,149 19,296
10th Percentile £326 £281 £304
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,293 1,339 1,564
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.54 £14.41
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £46.87
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -46.34% +6.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -41 113 £570 +8.57% 141
North of England -25 57 £550 +4.76% 45
South West -20 40 £556 -17.63% 54
South East -60 39 £550 +4.76% 24
North West -34 36 £513 -2.38% 33
Midlands -36 25 £500 -21.57% 8
West Midlands -32 21 £475 -26.92% 8
Yorkshire -26 20 £563 +10.62% 5
East Midlands -15 4 £500 +25.00%
East of England -22 3 £600 -29.41% 7
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 September 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.

1 132 (45.99%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (32.40%) Security Cleared
3 77 (26.83%) SC Cleared
4 55 (19.16%) NIST
5 48 (16.72%) Azure
6 47 (16.38%) Microsoft
7 46 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
9 41 (14.29%) CISSP
10 40 (13.94%) Information Security
10 40 (13.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 39 (13.59%) Risk Management
12 37 (12.89%) Application Security
12 37 (12.89%) AWS
13 34 (11.85%) Cloud Security
14 32 (11.15%) GRC
15 30 (10.45%) CISM
16 29 (10.10%) Cryptography
16 29 (10.10%) Threat Modelling
17 27 (9.41%) Incident Management
17 27 (9.41%) Roadmaps
18 26 (9.06%) Network Security
18 26 (9.06%) Security Management
19 25 (8.71%) Penetration Testing
20 24 (8.36%) SAP
21 23 (8.01%) Security Architecture
21 23 (8.01%) Security Operations
22 22 (7.67%) Microsoft Exchange
22 22 (7.67%) SAP Security
22 22 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 22 (7.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.48%) Confluence
3 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (6.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.83%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.72%) Azure
2 37 (12.89%) AWS
3 19 (6.62%) GCP
4 12 (4.18%) Entra ID
4 12 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (1.74%) OCI
8 4 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.70%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.70%) SaaS
9 2 (0.70%) Serverless
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.06%) Network Security
2 21 (7.32%) Firewall
3 7 (2.44%) BGP
3 7 (2.44%) WAN
4 6 (2.09%) VPN
5 5 (1.74%) IPsec
6 4 (1.39%) DNS
6 4 (1.39%) MPLS
6 4 (1.39%) X.509
7 3 (1.05%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (1.05%) HTTP
7 3 (1.05%) LAN
7 3 (1.05%) VLAN
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.70%) DKIM
8 2 (0.70%) DMARC
8 2 (0.70%) NGFW
8 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.57%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (3.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.70%) Git
2 2 (0.70%) MSI
3 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) Snyk
3 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.10%) Finance
3 15 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.53%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.83%) Banking
6 10 (3.48%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.44%) Legal
9 6 (2.09%) Aviation
10 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) German Language
12 2 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.70%) Retail
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Electronics
13 1 (0.35%) Military
13 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.18%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (1.74%) RESTful
2 5 (1.74%) SLSA
2 5 (1.74%) Terraform
3 4 (1.39%) OAuth
3 4 (1.39%) REST
3 4 (1.39%) SAML
4 3 (1.05%) JSON
5 2 (0.70%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.35%) Itk
6 1 (0.35%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.06%) Operational Technology
2 17 (5.92%) Security Posture
3 11 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.74%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.74%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.74%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.39%) CMDB
6 4 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.05%) BYOD
7 3 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.70%) PKI
8 2 (0.70%) SCADA
9 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.35%) Life Science
9 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.62%) Windows
2 16 (5.57%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Android
3 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (45.99%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
4 40 (13.94%) Information Security
5 39 (13.59%) Risk Management
6 37 (12.89%) Application Security
7 34 (11.85%) Cloud Security
8 29 (10.10%) Cryptography
8 29 (10.10%) Threat Modelling
9 27 (9.41%) Incident Management
9 27 (9.41%) Roadmaps
10 26 (9.06%) Security Management
11 25 (8.71%) Penetration Testing
12 23 (8.01%) Security Architecture
12 23 (8.01%) Security Operations
13 22 (7.67%) SAP Security
13 22 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (7.32%) DevSecOps
14 21 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (6.27%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.14%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (2.09%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.74%) Python
4 2 (0.70%) Bash
4 2 (0.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 93 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 41 (14.29%) CISSP
4 30 (10.45%) CISM
5 17 (5.92%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (5.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 15 (5.23%) Degree
8 14 (4.88%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.18%) CCSP
10 10 (3.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (3.14%) CEH
12 8 (2.79%) OSCP
13 7 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (2.09%) CRISC
14 6 (2.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
15 5 (1.74%) CCSK
15 5 (1.74%) ISACA
16 4 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (19.16%) NIST
2 40 (13.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (11.15%) GRC
4 20 (6.97%) NCSC
5 16 (5.57%) PCI DSS
6 13 (4.53%) GDPR
7 9 (3.14%) QA
8 7 (2.44%) COBIT
9 5 (1.74%) SLA
10 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.39%) Def Stans
10 4 (1.39%) JSP 440
10 4 (1.39%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.39%) RMADS
11 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.70%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 8 (2.79%) IAG
2 5 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Docker
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.35%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.74%) SCCM
3 3 (1.05%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.70%) Ansible
4 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 47 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.36%) SAP
3 9 (3.14%) Cisco
4 8 (2.79%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.44%) CyberArk
6 5 (1.74%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.74%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.39%) Splunk
8 3 (1.05%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.05%) F5
8 3 (1.05%) Google
8 3 (1.05%) Okta
8 3 (1.05%) Tanium
8 3 (1.05%) Tenable
9 2 (0.70%) Databricks
9 2 (0.70%) Juniper
9 2 (0.70%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.70%) VMware