IT Security Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Security Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Security Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £628 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 449 527
Rank change year-on-year +48 +78 -103
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Consultant 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.012% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.013% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £551 - -
25th Percentile £591 £613 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £625 £495
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +26.26% -12.00%
75th Percentile £700 £694 £518
90th Percentile £745 £728 -
UK median daily rate £613 £520 £398
% change year-on-year +17.79% +30.82% -11.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,296 22,932 30,081
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.05% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 16,071 21,102
10th Percentile £213 £224 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,186 1,194 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.85 £59.01
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

IT Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

IT Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Security Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

IT Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Security Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

IT Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Security Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

IT Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
South East +22 1 £750 +9.09% 3
South West - 1 £625 -
Scotland - 1 £630 - 1
East of England - 1 £600 -
IT Security Consultant
UK

IT Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, IT 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Security Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) NIST

IT Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) VMware