Security Technical Consultant Contract Job Trends in London

Security Technical Consultant
England > London

The median Security Technical Consultant daily rate in London is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 - 382
Rank change year-on-year - - +116
Contract jobs requiring a Security Technical Consultant 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.012% - 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £825 - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - £800
75th Percentile £875 - £888
90th Percentile - - £900
England median daily rate £675 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +40.66%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 16,123 11,879 16,647
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.48% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,755 8,148 12,048
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £427 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 142 341
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.08 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -19.08%

Security Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Technical Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Security Technical Consultant job vacancy trend in London

Security Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Technical Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Technical Consultant job vacancies in London

Security Technical 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 Technical Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Central London - 1 £850 - 1
Security Technical Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2026, Security Technical 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 London region featuring Security Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK

Security Technical Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) X.509
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CRISC
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google