Security Specialist Contracts in the North of England

Security Specialist
England > North of England

The median Security Specialist daily rate in the North of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 157 198
Rank change year-on-year -23 +41 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 3 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.075% 0.29% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.31% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 1
10th Percentile - £600 -
25th Percentile - £625 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -5.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £875 £706
90th Percentile - £950 -
England median daily rate £625 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £93.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £93.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year -33.88% +28.46% +14.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,674 3,824 5,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.37% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 2,338 3,390
10th Percentile £251 £273 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £639 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 278 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.38 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.84% +15.09% +32.07%
75th Percentile £47.12 £51.90 £45.88
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £58.73
England median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -43.73% +7.40% +63.16%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in the North of England

Security Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Specialist in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Specialist in the North of England

Security Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Specialist in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Specialist in the North of England

Security Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Specialist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
North West -17 2 - - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
Security Specialist
England

Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, Security Specialist 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 North of England region featuring Security Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) MISP
3 1 (33.33%) OpenVAS
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (33.33%) Instructional Design
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Carbon Black
3 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) QRadar
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring

Security Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Learning Management System
1 1 (33.33%) MISP
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Instructional Design
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) GCIA
1 1 (33.33%) GCIH
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) OpenVAS
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ArcSight
1 1 (33.33%) Carbon Black
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk