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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 359 330
Rank change year-on-year -15 -29 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 276 153 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.60% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 105 120
10th Percentile £413 £442 £425
25th Percentile £474 £480 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £675 £675
90th Percentile £638 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £571
% change year-on-year - -3.72% +3.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 2
10th Percentile £58.20 £27.93 £71.54
25th Percentile £61.13 £28.52 £72.08
Median hourly rate £76.50 £31.49 £73.56
Median % change year-on-year +142.93% -57.19% -15.45%
75th Percentile £79.00 £60.36 £74.45
90th Percentile £104.00 £76.49 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £31.49 £73.56
% change year-on-year +142.93% -57.19% -15.45%

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 42,592 25,553 30,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 91.09% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,048 16,438 18,399
10th Percentile £327 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,718 1,434 1,293
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -6.52%
75th Percentile £67.96 £51.55 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -33 117 £563 +7.14% 126
North of England -37 55 £550 +11.79% 40
South West -15 35 £553 -18.07% 35
North West -28 35 £519 +3.29% 19
South East -62 35 £550 +4.76% 50
Midlands -24 25 £500 -20.00% 14
West Midlands -30 21 £500 -21.57% 12
Yorkshire -14 19 £563 +16.34% 12
East Midlands -10 4 £500 +25.00% 2
East of England -39 1 - - 11
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 135 (48.91%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (31.52%) Security Cleared
3 76 (27.54%) SC Cleared
4 56 (20.29%) NIST
5 52 (18.84%) Vulnerability Management
6 48 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (14.86%) Azure
8 39 (14.13%) Microsoft
9 37 (13.41%) GRC
10 36 (13.04%) Cloud Security
11 35 (12.68%) Information Security
12 34 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 33 (11.96%) Application Security
14 32 (11.59%) AWS
14 32 (11.59%) Incident Management
15 30 (10.87%) CISSP
15 30 (10.87%) Network Security
15 30 (10.87%) Risk Management
16 28 (10.14%) Cryptography
17 27 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 26 (9.42%) NCSC
18 26 (9.42%) Threat Modelling
19 25 (9.06%) Roadmaps
20 24 (8.70%) Security Management
21 23 (8.33%) CISM
22 22 (7.97%) DevSecOps
22 22 (7.97%) Microsoft Exchange
23 21 (7.61%) Firewall
23 21 (7.61%) SAP
24 20 (7.25%) Penetration Testing

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 (7.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.54%) Confluence
3 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.62%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (14.86%) Azure
2 32 (11.59%) AWS
3 17 (6.16%) GCP
4 10 (3.62%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.54%) OCI
6 7 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.72%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.72%) GitHub
9 2 (0.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.72%) SaaS
9 2 (0.72%) Serverless
10 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.87%) Network Security
2 21 (7.61%) Firewall
3 9 (3.26%) WAN
4 7 (2.54%) BGP
4 7 (2.54%) IPsec
5 6 (2.17%) VPN
5 6 (2.17%) X.509
6 5 (1.81%) LAN
6 5 (1.81%) MPLS
7 4 (1.45%) DNS
7 4 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.09%) NGFW
8 3 (1.09%) VLAN
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.72%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.72%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.72%) OSPF
9 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.07%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.72%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.17%) JIRA
2 3 (1.09%) Git
3 2 (0.72%) GitLab
3 2 (0.72%) MSI
4 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) Snyk
4 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.14%) Finance
3 16 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (5.80%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.99%) Banking
5 10 (3.62%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Aviation
7 6 (2.17%) Legal
8 5 (1.81%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.72%) German Language
10 1 (0.36%) Advertising
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Law
10 1 (0.36%) Military
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.62%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (2.17%) OAuth
2 6 (2.17%) SAML
2 6 (2.17%) Terraform
3 5 (1.81%) SLSA
4 4 (1.45%) REST
5 3 (1.09%) JSON
5 3 (1.09%) RESTful
6 2 (0.72%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.36%) Itk
7 1 (0.36%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.14%) Operational Technology
2 19 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.45%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.45%) CMDB
5 4 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.72%) SCADA
8 1 (0.36%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.36%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.52%) Windows
2 13 (4.71%) Linux
3 3 (1.09%) Unix
4 2 (0.72%) Android
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (48.91%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (18.84%) Vulnerability Management
3 48 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (13.04%) Cloud Security
5 35 (12.68%) Information Security
6 33 (11.96%) Application Security
7 32 (11.59%) Incident Management
8 30 (10.87%) Risk Management
9 28 (10.14%) Cryptography
10 27 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (9.42%) Threat Modelling
12 25 (9.06%) Roadmaps
13 24 (8.70%) Security Management
14 22 (7.97%) DevSecOps
15 20 (7.25%) Penetration Testing
15 20 (7.25%) SAP Security
16 19 (6.88%) CI/CD
16 19 (6.88%) Incident Response
16 19 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (6.88%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (2.54%) Python
3 6 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.72%) Bash
4 2 (0.72%) Java
5 1 (0.36%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 87 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 76 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.87%) CISSP
4 23 (8.33%) CISM
5 15 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (3.62%) CCSP
8 9 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (2.90%) Degree
10 7 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.54%) CRISC
11 6 (2.17%) CEH
11 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.17%) OSCP
12 5 (1.81%) CCSK
12 5 (1.81%) ISACA
12 5 (1.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 3 (1.09%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (20.29%) NIST
2 37 (13.41%) GRC
3 34 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (9.42%) NCSC
5 16 (5.80%) PCI DSS
6 12 (4.35%) GDPR
7 7 (2.54%) QA
8 5 (1.81%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.81%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.81%) SLA
9 4 (1.45%) Def Stans
10 3 (1.09%) COBIT
11 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.72%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 6 (2.17%) IAG
2 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) Docker
3 3 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.09%) Firmware
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.36%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.81%) SCCM
3 4 (1.45%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.09%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.61%) SAP
3 12 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 9 (3.26%) Cisco
5 8 (2.90%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.90%) Zscaler
6 5 (1.81%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.45%) Splunk
8 3 (1.09%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.09%) F5
8 3 (1.09%) Google
8 3 (1.09%) Okta
8 3 (1.09%) Tanium
8 3 (1.09%) Tenable
9 2 (0.72%) Blue Coat
9 2 (0.72%) Juniper
9 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.72%) VMware