Lead Security Consultant Contracts

Lead Security Consultant
UK

The median Lead Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 594 701
Rank change year-on-year +75 +107 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Security Consultant 1 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.009% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.010% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £675 £545
25th Percentile £613 £713 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +10.71% +15.23%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £778
90th Percentile - £875 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +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 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Lead Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Security Consultant in the UK

Lead Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Security Consultant in the UK

Lead 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 Lead Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +58 1 £625 -3.85% 1
England +52 1 £625 -19.35% 4
Work from Home - 1 £625 - 1
Midlands - 1 £625 -
West Midlands - 1 £625 -

Lead Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Security Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow