Security Consultant Contracts 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 17 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 343 378
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 +169
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 125 207 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.60% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 148 176
10th Percentile £400 £462 £462
25th Percentile £494 £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £716
90th Percentile £725 £816 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £27.93 - £74.93
25th Percentile £28.52 - £77.44
Median hourly rate £31.49 - £83.25
75th Percentile £60.36 - £87.44
90th Percentile £76.49 - £88.98
UK median hourly rate £31.49 - £83.25
% change year-on-year - - +108.13%

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 22,842 34,786 44,421
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.84% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,017 22,675 31,547
10th Percentile £293 £288 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 2,675 1,318
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -12.11% +85.22%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

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 17 June 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 0 58 £525 -10.26% 312
South East +11 24 £550 -12.00% 302
South West +27 12 £625 - 170
Midlands +10 12 £625 +14.68% 218
West Midlands +10 9 £650 +34.02% 119
North of England -2 7 £550 -12.70% 299
North West +7 5 £550 -14.06% 154
East of England +30 4 £550 -8.33% 186
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 97
Yorkshire +6 1 £525 -12.50% 123
North East - 1 £775 - 22
Security Consultant
UK

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, Security Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 52 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 39 (31.20%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (29.60%) NIST
4 35 (28.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (27.20%) Security Cleared
6 29 (23.20%) Information Security
6 29 (23.20%) Risk Management
6 29 (23.20%) CISSP
7 24 (19.20%) Finance
8 22 (17.60%) CISM
9 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
9 19 (15.20%) Incident Response
9 19 (15.20%) Cloud Security
10 15 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
10 15 (12.00%) Roadmaps
11 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
11 14 (11.20%) GRC
11 14 (11.20%) GDPR
11 14 (11.20%) Risk Assessment
11 14 (11.20%) SAP
11 14 (11.20%) DV Cleared
12 13 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (10.40%) Agile
13 12 (9.60%) Azure
13 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (9.60%) Vulnerability Management
14 11 (8.80%) Network Security
14 11 (8.80%) Telecoms
14 11 (8.80%) Degree

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.00%) SAP GRC
3 2 (1.60%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.60%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.80%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.60%) Azure
2 10 (8.00%) AWS
3 5 (4.00%) GCP
4 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.20%) SaaS
5 3 (2.40%) IaaS
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.40%) OCI
5 3 (2.40%) PaaS
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.80%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.80%) Network Security
2 10 (8.00%) Firewall
3 6 (4.80%) NGFW
3 6 (4.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.60%) DHCP
4 2 (1.60%) DNS
4 2 (1.60%) Internet
4 2 (1.60%) LAN
4 2 (1.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.80%) 4G
5 1 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.80%) DSL
5 1 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.80%) MPLS
5 1 (0.80%) MQTT
5 1 (0.80%) NAS
5 1 (0.80%) PSTN
5 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.80%) VLAN
5 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.60%) SAP BW
1 2 (1.60%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.80%) Power BI
2 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) JIRA
General
1 52 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Finance
3 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.80%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Electronics
6 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.00%) Marketing
7 4 (3.20%) Banking
8 3 (2.40%) Legal
9 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.80%) Automotive
10 1 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Local Government
10 1 (0.80%) Police
10 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (2.40%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.60%) LDAP
4 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Security Posture
2 8 (6.40%) Operational Technology
3 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) PKI
5 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.40%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.60%) IoT
6 2 (1.60%) NHS
6 2 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.80%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
2 3 (2.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.60%) AIX
3 2 (1.60%) Solaris
4 1 (0.80%) CentOS
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.20%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (23.20%) Information Security
2 29 (23.20%) Risk Management
3 19 (15.20%) Cloud Security
3 19 (15.20%) Incident Response
4 15 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
4 15 (12.00%) Roadmaps
5 14 (11.20%) Risk Assessment
6 13 (10.40%) Agile
6 13 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (9.60%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (8.00%) Zero Trust
10 9 (7.20%) Application Security
10 9 (7.20%) SAP Security
10 9 (7.20%) Security Architecture
10 9 (7.20%) Security Management
10 9 (7.20%) Security Operations
10 9 (7.20%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.00%) Python
2 2 (1.60%) Bash
2 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.80%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.20%) CISSP
3 22 (17.60%) CISM
4 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
5 14 (11.20%) DV Cleared
6 11 (8.80%) Degree
7 7 (5.60%) CRISC
8 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.00%) CESG Certified Professional
9 5 (4.00%) CLAS
10 3 (2.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.60%) GIAC
11 2 (1.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (1.60%) OSCP
12 1 (0.80%) CCIE
12 1 (0.80%) CCSE
12 1 (0.80%) CEH
12 1 (0.80%) CISA
12 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (29.60%) NIST
2 35 (28.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (11.20%) GDPR
3 14 (11.20%) GRC
4 10 (8.00%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.60%) NCSC
5 7 (5.60%) RMADS
6 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 5 (4.00%) JSP 440
6 5 (4.00%) QA
7 4 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (3.20%) NIST 800
7 4 (3.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (2.40%) COBIT
9 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.80%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Ansible
2 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.80%) CASB
3 1 (0.80%) Kibana
3 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.80%) logstash
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.80%) Nessus
3 1 (0.80%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.80%) QRadar
3 1 (0.80%) SCCM
3 1 (0.80%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.20%) SAP
3 10 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 8 (6.40%) CyberArk
5 6 (4.80%) Oracle
5 6 (4.80%) Splunk
6 5 (4.00%) Cisco
7 4 (3.20%) Planview
8 3 (2.40%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.40%) Symantec
9 2 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.60%) Concur
9 2 (1.60%) Google
9 2 (1.60%) Qualys
9 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.60%) Tenable
9 2 (1.60%) VMware
9 2 (1.60%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.80%) F5