Security Consultant Contracts

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £618 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 361 539
Rank change year-on-year -12 +178 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 217 384 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.66% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.70% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 258 230
10th Percentile £464 £450 £425
25th Percentile £524 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -0.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £809 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £606 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +10.23% -6.78% +18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £74.93 £33.50
25th Percentile - £77.44 £38.75
Median hourly rate - £83.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +108.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile - £87.44 £50.00
90th Percentile - £88.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £83.25 -

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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
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 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +27 192 £625 +5.77% 57
UK excluding London +35 99 £606 +10.23% 35
London +36 96 £638 +9.91% 22
Work from Home -19 58 £575 +4.55% 26
South East +20 52 £625 - 13
South West +12 16 £625 +4.17% 2
North of England +11 11 £618 +12.27% 7
Midlands +19 10 £515 -6.36% 4
West Midlands +11 10 £515 -6.36% 4
North West +17 9 £625 +13.64% 3
Scotland +37 7 £570 +32.87% 5
East of England +8 3 £600 +9.09% 2
Yorkshire +13 2 £575 -4.17% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 Security Consultant in the job title.

1 117 (53.92%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (31.80%) Information Security
3 63 (29.03%) NIST
4 59 (27.19%) Security Cleared
5 49 (22.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (22.58%) Finance
6 46 (21.20%) Cloud Security
7 42 (19.35%) Azure
8 40 (18.43%) CISSP
8 40 (18.43%) Social Skills
9 38 (17.51%) Risk Management
10 34 (15.67%) DV Cleared
11 32 (14.75%) SC Cleared
12 31 (14.29%) CISM
12 31 (14.29%) Application Security
13 30 (13.82%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (11.98%) Penetration Testing
14 26 (11.98%) SIEM
15 25 (11.52%) Firewall
15 25 (11.52%) DevSecOps
16 24 (11.06%) Vulnerability Management
17 23 (10.60%) Network Security
18 22 (10.14%) Microsoft
19 21 (9.68%) AWS
19 21 (9.68%) DevOps
19 21 (9.68%) GRC
20 20 (9.22%) SDLC
21 19 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
21 19 (8.76%) Degree
21 19 (8.76%) Agile

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 (0.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) SAP GRC
1 3 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.35%) Azure
2 21 (9.68%) AWS
3 11 (5.07%) GCP
4 10 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.69%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.76%) IaaS
7 5 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.92%) Akamai
9 2 (0.92%) GitHub
9 2 (0.92%) OCI
9 2 (0.92%) PaaS
9 2 (0.92%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.92%) SaaS
9 2 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.52%) Firewall
2 23 (10.60%) Network Security
3 11 (5.07%) WAN
4 9 (4.15%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (4.15%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.30%) DNS
5 5 (2.30%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.84%) Internet
6 4 (1.84%) VPN
7 3 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.38%) NGFW
7 3 (1.38%) Wireless
8 2 (0.92%) Broadband
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.92%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.46%) LAN
9 1 (0.46%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.76%) SAP BW
2 4 (1.84%) Big Data
3 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.46%) Power BI
4 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
1 2 (0.92%) JIRA
1 2 (0.92%) RStudio
2 1 (0.46%) GitLab
General
1 49 (22.58%) Finance
2 40 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.29%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.45%) Banking
5 12 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.15%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.30%) German Language
8 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.84%) Electronics
9 4 (1.84%) French Language
9 4 (1.84%) Marketing
10 3 (1.38%) Law
10 3 (1.38%) Police
11 2 (0.92%) Front Office
11 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Military
12 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.38%) SailPoint
1 3 (1.38%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.46%) .NET
2 1 (0.46%) LDAP
2 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.83%) Security Posture
2 16 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.07%) Operational Technology
4 9 (4.15%) PKI
5 8 (3.69%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.76%) IoT
8 5 (2.30%) SCADA
9 3 (1.38%) NHS
9 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.92%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.92%) Industry 4.0
11 1 (0.46%) Blog
11 1 (0.46%) Robotics
11 1 (0.46%) SCORM
11 1 (0.46%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.37%) Windows
2 13 (5.99%) Linux
3 7 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (53.92%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (31.80%) Information Security
3 46 (21.20%) Cloud Security
4 38 (17.51%) Risk Management
5 31 (14.29%) Application Security
6 30 (13.82%) Identity Access Management
7 26 (11.98%) Penetration Testing
7 26 (11.98%) SIEM
8 25 (11.52%) DevSecOps
9 24 (11.06%) Vulnerability Management
10 21 (9.68%) DevOps
11 20 (9.22%) SDLC
12 19 (8.76%) Agile
12 19 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (8.29%) Risk Assessment
13 18 (8.29%) Security Architecture
13 18 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (7.83%) OWASP
15 16 (7.37%) Security Management
16 15 (6.91%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.61%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (1.38%) SQL
4 2 (0.92%) R
5 1 (0.46%) C#
5 1 (0.46%) Java
5 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.46%) RPG
Qualifications
1 59 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.43%) CISSP
3 34 (15.67%) DV Cleared
4 32 (14.75%) SC Cleared
5 31 (14.29%) CISM
6 19 (8.76%) Degree
7 18 (8.29%) CRISC
8 14 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (5.99%) CISA
10 12 (5.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (3.23%) CISMP
12 5 (2.30%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (2.30%) CLAS
13 4 (1.84%) CCSP
13 4 (1.84%) ISACA
14 2 (0.92%) CEH
14 2 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
15 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (29.03%) NIST
2 49 (22.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (9.68%) GRC
4 18 (8.29%) PCI DSS
5 16 (7.37%) COBIT
6 14 (6.45%) GDPR
6 14 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 13 (5.99%) NCSC
8 9 (4.15%) RMADS
9 7 (3.23%) NIST 800
10 5 (2.30%) ISO 31000
10 5 (2.30%) JSP 440
11 4 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (1.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.92%) COSO
13 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.46%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.92%) Docker
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.84%) Terraform
2 3 (1.38%) Nessus
3 2 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.83%) SAP
3 10 (4.61%) ArcSight
4 9 (4.15%) Cisco
5 5 (2.30%) CheckPoint
5 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.84%) Google
6 4 (1.84%) IBM
6 4 (1.84%) McAfee
6 4 (1.84%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.38%) ForeScout
7 3 (1.38%) Juniper
7 3 (1.38%) Okta
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle
7 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.38%) Tufin
7 3 (1.38%) VMware
7 3 (1.38%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.92%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.92%) Splunk