Senior Security Consultant Contracts

Senior Security Consultant
UK

The median Senior Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £633 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 704 832
Rank change year-on-year +128 +128 -177
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Consultant 15 3 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.005% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.005% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 14
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile £468 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 - £556
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.28%
75th Percentile £775 - £608
90th Percentile £888 - £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 - £589
% change year-on-year - - -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.00
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Consultant over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +125 13 £675 - 4
UK excluding London +65 9 £485 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £485 -
Midlands - 6 £485 -
London +104 5 £750 - 2
South East - 2 - -
Work from Home +120 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £590 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Security Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security
1 7 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) SAP
2 6 (40.00%) NIST
3 5 (33.33%) SAP BW
3 5 (33.33%) Information Security
3 5 (33.33%) SAP Security
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) Test Management
4 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (20.00%) Application Security
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (20.00%) Network Security
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (13.33%) OWASP
6 2 (13.33%) Azure
6 2 (13.33%) AWS
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) SailPoint
6 2 (13.33%) ISACA
6 2 (13.33%) SABSA
6 2 (13.33%) GCP

Senior 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP BPC
1 1 (6.67%) SAP ERP
1 1 (6.67%) SAP GRC
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SAP BW
2 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security
1 7 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Information Security
2 5 (33.33%) SAP Security
3 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Test Management
3 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (20.00%) Application Security
4 3 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security Management
5 2 (13.33%) SABSA
5 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CISM
2 2 (13.33%) CISSP
2 2 (13.33%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) COBIT
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.67%) GRC
3 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Concur
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk