Infrastructure Security Consultant Contracts

Infrastructure Security Consultant
UK

The median Infrastructure Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 569 679
Rank change year-on-year +17 +110 +186
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Consultant 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.003% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £361
25th Percentile £620 £521 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £543 £463
Median % change year-on-year +17.97% +17.30% -17.78%
75th Percentile £660 £564 £553
90th Percentile - - £574
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £463
% change year-on-year - - -17.78%

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 30,107 36,433 50,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.93% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 23,537 34,777
10th Percentile £282 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,061 1,513
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
% change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%

Infrastructure Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Security Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Security Consultant
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +13 1 £640 +17.97% 4
London +1 1 £640 +17.97% 1

Infrastructure Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Security Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Infrastructure 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware