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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 368 362
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 223 104 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.43% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.46% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 77 143
10th Percentile £418 £500 £481
25th Percentile £484 £524 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £709 £700
90th Percentile £778 £750 £838
UK median daily rate £563 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.46% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 £71.19 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.38 £87.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% -16.81% +13.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £73.56 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.38 £87.00
% change year-on-year -10.19% -16.81% +13.73%

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 34,544 22,585 34,987
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 93.03% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,800 15,092 23,382
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 803 2,291
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.51 £21.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.71 £77.00 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -24.42%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -2 112 £528 -8.26% 18
South East -34 26 £563 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -32 25 £563 -10.00%
Midlands -50 25 £563 -10.00% 4
South West -9 22 £650 +4.00% 11
North of England -63 17 £650 - 5
North West -29 14 £650 +6.56% 4
East of England -32 6 £600 -11.11%
Yorkshire -60 3 - - 1
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 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 95 (42.60%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (37.67%) Security Cleared
3 73 (32.74%) SC Cleared
4 50 (22.42%) NIST
5 47 (21.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (18.83%) Risk Management
7 40 (17.94%) Information Security
8 38 (17.04%) CISSP
9 33 (14.80%) Azure
10 31 (13.90%) Cloud Security
11 30 (13.45%) CISM
11 30 (13.45%) Microsoft
12 22 (9.87%) Agile
13 21 (9.42%) AWS
13 21 (9.42%) Security Architecture
13 21 (9.42%) Threat Modelling
14 20 (8.97%) Incident Response
15 18 (8.07%) Roadmaps
16 16 (7.17%) DV Cleared
16 16 (7.17%) GCP
16 16 (7.17%) NCSC
16 16 (7.17%) Risk Assessment
17 15 (6.73%) DevSecOps
17 15 (6.73%) PCI DSS
18 14 (6.28%) Active Directory
18 14 (6.28%) Application Security
18 14 (6.28%) Degree
18 14 (6.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 14 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
19 13 (5.83%) AI

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 4 (1.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.80%) Azure
2 21 (9.42%) AWS
3 16 (7.17%) GCP
4 13 (5.83%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.24%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.90%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.90%) SaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Akamai
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.04%) Firewall
1 9 (4.04%) Network Security
2 6 (2.69%) Kerberos
3 4 (1.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) DHCP
4 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.45%) Modbus
4 1 (0.45%) NGFW
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) VLAN
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.90%) Power BI
2 1 (0.45%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.97%) Finance
3 14 (6.28%) Public Sector
4 6 (2.69%) Legal
5 5 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.24%) Banking
6 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.79%) Law
6 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.90%) Electronics
7 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Military
8 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Police
8 1 (0.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.04%) LDAP
2 2 (0.90%) J2EE
2 2 (0.90%) JSP
2 2 (0.90%) RESTful
3 1 (0.45%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.45%) Security Posture
2 12 (5.38%) Operational Technology
3 9 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.79%) BYOD
5 4 (1.79%) PKI
5 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.35%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.45%) CMDB
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.45%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.45%) NHS
8 1 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.24%) Windows
2 4 (1.79%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) zOS
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (42.60%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (18.83%) Risk Management
3 40 (17.94%) Information Security
4 31 (13.90%) Cloud Security
5 22 (9.87%) Agile
6 21 (9.42%) Security Architecture
6 21 (9.42%) Threat Modelling
7 20 (8.97%) Incident Response
8 18 (8.07%) Roadmaps
9 16 (7.17%) Risk Assessment
10 15 (6.73%) DevSecOps
11 14 (6.28%) Application Security
11 14 (6.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (5.83%) AI
12 13 (5.83%) Vulnerability Management
13 12 (5.38%) Security Operations
13 12 (5.38%) Zero Trust
14 11 (4.93%) Penetration Testing
14 11 (4.93%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.14%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.24%) Python
3 4 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.90%) Bicep
4 2 (0.90%) Java
4 2 (0.90%) RPG
5 1 (0.45%) Bash
5 1 (0.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (37.67%) Security Cleared
2 73 (32.74%) SC Cleared
3 38 (17.04%) CISSP
4 30 (13.45%) CISM
5 16 (7.17%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.28%) Degree
7 8 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.14%) CEH
8 7 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.24%) CCSP
10 5 (2.24%) CRISC
11 4 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (1.35%) CISA
12 3 (1.35%) GIAC
12 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.35%) OSCP
13 2 (0.90%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.90%) CGEIT
13 2 (0.90%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (22.42%) NIST
2 47 (21.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.17%) NCSC
4 15 (6.73%) PCI DSS
5 11 (4.93%) GDPR
5 11 (4.93%) GRC
6 8 (3.59%) COBIT
6 8 (3.59%) JSP 440
7 7 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 6 (2.69%) RMADS
9 4 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (1.35%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.90%) ITGC
11 2 (0.90%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.90%) QA
12 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 14 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (1.79%) Terraform
2 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.45%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 30 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.04%) Google
3 8 (3.59%) Splunk
4 4 (1.79%) SAP
4 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.79%) Tenable
5 3 (1.35%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
6 2 (0.90%) Databricks
6 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.45%) Acunetix
7 1 (0.45%) Ariba
7 1 (0.45%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.45%) Imperva
7 1 (0.45%) Netsparker
7 1 (0.45%) Okta
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.45%) Veracode
7 1 (0.45%) Zscaler