Security Consultant Contracts in London

Security Consultant
England > London

The median Security Consultant daily rate in London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 334 481
Rank change year-on-year +32 +147 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 93 147 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.57% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.60% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 104 85
10th Percentile £438 £452 £425
25th Percentile £535 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -3.93%
75th Percentile £766 £775 £625
90th Percentile £833 £792 £723
England median daily rate £625 £600 £568
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.73% +3.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in London

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +57 24 £688 +32.21% 5
East London -7 4 £585 -22.00%
Security Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 across the London region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 49 (52.69%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (40.86%) Finance
3 32 (34.41%) Information Security
4 29 (31.18%) Azure
5 28 (30.11%) NIST
6 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
7 22 (23.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (23.66%) Cloud Security
8 18 (19.35%) Penetration Testing
8 18 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
9 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
9 15 (16.13%) DevSecOps
10 14 (15.05%) Firewall
11 13 (13.98%) AWS
11 13 (13.98%) Security Architecture
11 13 (13.98%) SIEM
11 13 (13.98%) Application Security
12 12 (12.90%) Security Posture
12 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.90%) Risk Management
12 12 (12.90%) CISM
13 11 (11.83%) CISSP
13 11 (11.83%) Risk Assessment
13 11 (11.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (11.83%) Data Encryption
14 10 (10.75%) Security Auditing
14 10 (10.75%) Database Security
14 10 (10.75%) DevOps
14 10 (10.75%) Banking
14 10 (10.75%) Ethical Hacking

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.15%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) Azure
2 13 (13.98%) AWS
3 9 (9.68%) GCP
4 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.23%) IaaS
7 2 (2.15%) Akamai
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.15%) GitHub
7 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.08%) OCI
8 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.05%) Firewall
2 10 (10.75%) WAN
3 9 (9.68%) SD-WAN
4 5 (5.38%) Network Security
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.08%) LAN
6 1 (1.08%) Modbus
6 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (2.15%) Big Data
2 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
1 2 (2.15%) RStudio
General
1 38 (40.86%) Finance
2 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Banking
4 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.15%) Front Office
7 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Back Office
8 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.08%) German Language
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Military
8 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.08%) Kafka
1 1 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Security Posture
2 9 (9.68%) PKI
3 7 (7.53%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.38%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.38%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.23%) NHS
6 3 (3.23%) SCADA
7 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.15%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (2.15%) IoT
8 1 (1.08%) Blog
8 1 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.08%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (1.08%) SCORM
8 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.69%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (34.41%) Information Security
3 22 (23.66%) Cloud Security
4 18 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
4 18 (19.35%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (16.13%) DevSecOps
6 13 (13.98%) Application Security
6 13 (13.98%) Security Architecture
6 13 (13.98%) SIEM
7 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.90%) Risk Management
8 11 (11.83%) Data Encryption
8 11 (11.83%) Risk Assessment
9 10 (10.75%) Database Security
9 10 (10.75%) DevOps
9 10 (10.75%) Ethical Hacking
9 10 (10.75%) Security Auditing
10 9 (9.68%) Key Management
11 7 (7.53%) ERP
11 7 (7.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.38%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (2.15%) R
3 1 (1.08%) Java
3 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) CISM
2 11 (11.83%) CISSP
3 8 (8.60%) Degree
4 7 (7.53%) CRISC
5 6 (6.45%) CISA
5 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.08%) CCNA
8 1 (1.08%) CCSK
8 1 (1.08%) CCSP
8 1 (1.08%) CEH
8 1 (1.08%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (30.11%) NIST
2 22 (23.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (11.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 10 (10.75%) PCI DSS
5 9 (9.68%) GRC
5 9 (9.68%) NCSC
6 7 (7.53%) NIST 800
7 5 (5.38%) ISO 31000
8 3 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (3.23%) GDPR
8 3 (3.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (1.08%) COBIT
10 1 (1.08%) ISA99
10 1 (1.08%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (1.08%) QA
10 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Terraform
2 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Nessus
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.08%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) SAP
3 4 (4.30%) Google
3 4 (4.30%) McAfee
3 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.23%) ForeScout
4 3 (3.23%) Okta
5 2 (2.15%) AlgoSec
5 2 (2.15%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco
5 2 (2.15%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) BT
6 1 (1.08%) Cognos
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Remedy
6 1 (1.08%) Symantec
6 1 (1.08%) Unisys
6 1 (1.08%) VMware