Perimeter Security Consultant Contracts

Perimeter Security Consultant
UK

The median Perimeter Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Perimeter Security Consultant 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
UK excluding London median daily 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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Perimeter Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Perimeter Security Consultant in the UK

Perimeter Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Perimeter 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 Perimeter Security Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) Tufin
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Zscaler
1 3 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) NGFW
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response

Perimeter 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) NGFW
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Tufin
1 3 (100.00%) Zscaler