Principal Security Consultant Contracts

Principal Security Consultant
UK

The median Principal Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 695 843
Rank change year-on-year +112 +148 -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Security Consultant 7 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.007% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.007% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £620 £530 -
25th Percentile £630 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% +5.43% -
75th Percentile £700 £619 £588
90th Percentile £748 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 £500 -
% change year-on-year +26.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Principal Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Security Consultant in the UK

Principal Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Security Consultant in the UK

Principal Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Security Consultant over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Security Consultant in the UK

Principal Security Consultant
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
England +110 7 £675 +10.20% 2
UK excluding London +57 5 £630 +26.00% 2
London +98 2 £688 +12.24% 1
South West - 2 £780 -
North West - 2 £628 -
North of England - 2 £628 -
Work from Home +117 1 £700 +15.46% 3
South East +18 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Principal 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 Principal Security Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) NIST
2 5 (71.43%) Risk Management
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Big Data
3 4 (57.14%) Information Security
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 3 (42.86%) DNS
4 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) R
5 2 (28.57%) GitHub
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (28.57%) RStudio
5 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Jupyter
5 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
5 2 (28.57%) Databricks
5 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema

Principal 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
1 2 (28.57%) RStudio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Risk Management
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Information Management
4 2 (28.57%) OWASP
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) NIST
2 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (28.57%) NCSC
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Teradata