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 during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 683 829
Rank change year-on-year +127 +146 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Security Technical Consultant 11 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.020% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.021% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 15
10th Percentile £658 - £425
25th Percentile £723 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile £833 - £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%

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 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

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 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Technical Consultant in the UK

Security Technical Consultant
Top 5 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 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
England +96 9 £800 - 3
London +87 8 £800 - 2
Work from Home +116 7 £800 +60.00% 1
UK excluding London - 1 £500 -
South West - 1 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 9 (81.82%) DevSecOps
1 9 (81.82%) NIST
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
3 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (36.36%) Information Security
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) SIEM
6 2 (18.18%) CISSP
6 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (9.09%) Project Planning
7 1 (9.09%) COBIT

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 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevSecOps
2 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Information Security
3 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) SIEM
5 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (9.09%) Coaching
6 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) Re-Platforming
6 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) CEH
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (9.09%) GCIH
2 1 (9.09%) GIAC
2 1 (9.09%) GPEN
2 1 (9.09%) GWAPT
2 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) NIST
2 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) COBIT
3 1 (9.09%) COSO
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) GRC
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk
1 1 (9.09%) Workday