Security Technical Consultant Contracts

Security Technical Consultant
UK

The median Security Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 620 828
Rank change year-on-year +89 +208 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Security Technical Consultant 18 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.015% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.016% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £538 £615 -
25th Percentile £634 £750 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £850 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +74.36% -11.36%
75th Percentile £875 £881 £553
90th Percentile £985 £893 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 33,956 44,250 77,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.82% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,486 30,168 54,199
10th Percentile £300 £300 £316
25th Percentile £411 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 1,536 1,766
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.89 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.27 £19.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%

Security Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Technical Consultant in the UK

Security Technical Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Technical Consultant in the UK

Security Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Technical Consultant over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Technical Consultant in the UK

Security Technical Consultant
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Technical Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Work from Home +88 13 £575 +4.55%
England +79 9 £800 -5.88% 2
London +53 7 £800 -5.88%
UK excluding London +45 2 £500 - 2
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Security Technical 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 Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (61.11%) Information Security
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
1 11 (61.11%) NIST
2 10 (55.56%) Cloud Security
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
3 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
4 7 (38.89%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 7 (38.89%) Static Application Security Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Application Security
4 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Security Testing
4 7 (38.89%) OWASP
4 7 (38.89%) Azure
4 7 (38.89%) Waterfall
4 7 (38.89%) Project Planning
5 5 (27.78%) GCP
6 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
7 3 (16.67%) AWS
7 3 (16.67%) CISSP
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
8 2 (11.11%) Terraform
8 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
8 2 (11.11%) CEH

Security Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Information Security
2 10 (55.56%) Cloud Security
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
3 8 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
3 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (38.89%) Application Security
4 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (38.89%) OWASP
4 7 (38.89%) Project Planning
4 7 (38.89%) Security Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Static Application Security Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 7 (38.89%) Waterfall
5 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) CEH
2 2 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISA
3 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.56%) CRISC
3 1 (5.56%) GCIH
3 1 (5.56%) GIAC
3 1 (5.56%) GPEN
3 1 (5.56%) GWAPT
3 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) COBIT
3 1 (5.56%) COSO
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.56%) Workday