Security Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £575 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 284 280 435
Rank change year-on-year -4 +155 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 59 191 197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.78% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.81% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 128 132
10th Percentile £500 £450 £450
25th Percentile £550 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £650
90th Percentile £818 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £603 £575 £563
% change year-on-year +4.78% +2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £33.50
25th Percentile - - £38.75
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £83.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +108.13% -15.79%

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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Security Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Consultant.

Security Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Consultant over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Security Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Consultant.

Security Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 31 (52.54%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (42.37%) Information Security
3 20 (33.90%) Azure
4 19 (32.20%) Finance
5 17 (28.81%) CISSP
6 16 (27.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (27.12%) DevOps
6 16 (27.12%) NIST
7 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
8 12 (20.34%) Agile
8 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
9 11 (18.64%) CISM
9 11 (18.64%) DevSecOps
9 11 (18.64%) Application Security
9 11 (18.64%) Threat Modelling
10 9 (15.25%) Security Testing
10 9 (15.25%) AWS
11 8 (13.56%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
11 8 (13.56%) Security Management
11 8 (13.56%) Risk Management
11 8 (13.56%) SDLC
11 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security
11 8 (13.56%) NCSC
12 7 (11.86%) GRC
12 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
12 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (11.86%) Risk Assessment
12 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
12 7 (11.86%) Data Protection

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 (1.69%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) Azure
2 9 (15.25%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.47%) GCP
5 4 (6.78%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.08%) IaaS
6 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub
8 1 (1.69%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.69%) LAN
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
1 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.69%) SSL
1 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (1.69%) Big Data
1 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) RStudio
General
1 19 (32.20%) Finance
2 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.08%) Police
6 2 (3.39%) Front Office
7 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.69%) German Language
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.08%) NHS
3 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.39%) IoT
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.39%) SCADA
4 1 (1.69%) Blog
4 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.69%) iSeries
4 1 (1.69%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.69%) PKI
4 1 (1.69%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (42.37%) Information Security
3 16 (27.12%) DevOps
4 12 (20.34%) Agile
5 11 (18.64%) Application Security
5 11 (18.64%) DevSecOps
5 11 (18.64%) Threat Modelling
6 9 (15.25%) Security Testing
7 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security
7 8 (13.56%) Risk Management
7 8 (13.56%) SDLC
7 8 (13.56%) Security Management
7 8 (13.56%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (11.86%) Data Protection
8 7 (11.86%) OWASP
8 7 (11.86%) Risk Assessment
8 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (10.17%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (10.17%) Waterfall
10 5 (8.47%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.39%) SQL
2 1 (1.69%) R
2 1 (1.69%) RPG
Qualifications
1 17 (28.81%) CISSP
2 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
3 11 (18.64%) CISM
4 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.78%) CRISC
6 4 (6.78%) Degree
7 3 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.39%) MCSE
8 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (1.69%) CISA
9 1 (1.69%) CLAS
9 1 (1.69%) CSSLP
9 1 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (27.12%) NIST
2 8 (13.56%) NCSC
3 7 (11.86%) GRC
3 7 (11.86%) PCI DSS
4 5 (8.47%) GDPR
5 4 (6.78%) COBIT
6 3 (5.08%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (5.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (5.08%) RMADS
7 2 (3.39%) COSO
7 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.69%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (1.69%) ISO 9001
8 1 (1.69%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) IBM
2 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.39%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.39%) Okta
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Remedy
4 1 (1.69%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) Workday