Security Consultant Contracts in London

Security Consultant
England > London

The median Security Consultant daily rate in London is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 295 338
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 56 101 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 76 100
10th Percentile £400 £438 £450
25th Percentile £500 £537 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £666 £744 £775
90th Percentile £725 £825 £777
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,322 16,344 24,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.55% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,688 11,839 17,686
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 322 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.66 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% -23.18% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.88 £46.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Central London -12 4 £550 -18.52% 10
East London +15 1 £600 +2.56% 3
South London - 1 £625 - 2
Security Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 London region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (32.14%) Information Security
4 16 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 15 (26.79%) CISSP
5 15 (26.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (25.00%) NIST
7 13 (23.21%) CISM
8 11 (19.64%) Risk Assessment
8 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
9 10 (17.86%) Agile
9 10 (17.86%) Zero Trust
10 9 (16.07%) Incident Response
10 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (16.07%) Azure
11 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
12 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
12 7 (12.50%) GCP
12 7 (12.50%) Finance
12 7 (12.50%) Degree
12 7 (12.50%) GRC
13 6 (10.71%) DevSecOps
13 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.71%) JIRA
13 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 5 (8.93%) CRISC
14 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Management
14 5 (8.93%) QA

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) GCP
3 4 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.79%) IaaS
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.79%) PaaS
4 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
2 3 (5.36%) NGFW
2 3 (5.36%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) 4G
3 1 (1.79%) ISDN
3 1 (1.79%) LAN
3 1 (1.79%) MPLS
3 1 (1.79%) PSTN
3 1 (1.79%) SSL
3 1 (1.79%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) JIRA
General
1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.79%) Police
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Operational Technology
1 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.57%) PKI
3 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.79%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) AIX
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Solaris
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
1 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (32.14%) Information Security
3 16 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 11 (19.64%) Risk Assessment
5 10 (17.86%) Agile
5 10 (17.86%) Zero Trust
6 9 (16.07%) Incident Response
6 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 6 (10.71%) DevSecOps
8 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 5 (8.93%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (8.93%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.93%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Management
10 4 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
10 4 (7.14%) SDLC
10 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) CISSP
2 13 (23.21%) CISM
3 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
4 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 7 (12.50%) Degree
6 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (8.93%) CRISC
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.57%) GIAC
9 2 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (1.79%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (25.00%) NIST
3 7 (12.50%) GRC
4 5 (8.93%) QA
5 4 (7.14%) GDPR
5 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
7 2 (3.57%) NCSC
8 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Palo Alto
2 4 (7.14%) Planview
3 3 (5.36%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) Okta
5 1 (1.79%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.79%) Qualys
5 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.79%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) Workday