Principal Security Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Principal Security Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Security Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 476 -
Rank change year-on-year +132 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Security Consultant 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.004% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £613 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
UK median daily rate £675 £613 £575
% change year-on-year +10.20% +6.52% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Principal Security Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Security Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Security Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Principal Security Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) RStudio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills

Principal Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform