Information Security Consultant Contracts

Information Security Consultant
UK

The median Information Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 546 657
Rank change year-on-year +46 +111 +123
Contract jobs requiring an Information Security Consultant 20 36 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.083% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.089% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 46
10th Percentile £412 £534 £463
25th Percentile £495 £594 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £950 £675 £738
90th Percentile - £875 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.25
Median hourly rate - - £76.50
75th Percentile - - £79.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Information Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Consultant in the UK

Information Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security Consultant in the UK

Information Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security Consultant in the UK

Information Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security Consultant in the UK

Information Security Consultant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Work from Home +38 13 £500 -20.00% 3
England +38 10 £500 -20.00% 17
London +30 9 £500 -28.57% 4
UK excluding London +51 1 £750 +20.00% 15
South East +41 1 £750 +30.43% 7

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Information 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 featuring Information Security Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Information Security
2 12 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 12 (60.00%) Agile
3 11 (55.00%) NIST
4 10 (50.00%) Finance
5 9 (45.00%) CISSP
5 9 (45.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (40.00%) CRISC
6 8 (40.00%) CISM
7 7 (35.00%) DevSecOps
8 5 (25.00%) SOC 2
8 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 5 (25.00%) Application Security
8 5 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
8 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
8 5 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
8 5 (25.00%) Security Posture
8 5 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
8 5 (25.00%) Legal
8 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (25.00%) GDPR
8 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (25.00%) PCI DSS
8 5 (25.00%) HIPAA
9 4 (20.00%) OWASP
9 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (20.00%) Waterfall

Information Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Information Security
2 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 9 (45.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (35.00%) DevSecOps
5 5 (25.00%) Application Security
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 5 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
5 5 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Project Planning
6 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) CISSP
2 8 (40.00%) CISM
2 8 (40.00%) CRISC
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) GIAC
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) NIST
2 5 (25.00%) GDPR
2 5 (25.00%) HIPAA
2 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 4 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Planview
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft