Security Consultant Contracts in England

Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in England is £623 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 386 545
Rank change year-on-year +38 +159 -145
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 195 267 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.59% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 171 168
10th Percentile £468 £461 £425
25th Percentile £531 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £675
90th Percentile £816 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £601 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.57% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £83.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £83.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +108.13% -15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in England

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +67 102 £594 -1.04% 29
South East +10 52 £625 -1.96% 14
South West +13 17 £625 +8.70% 14
Midlands +14 10 £515 -6.36% 6
West Midlands +7 9 £485 -11.82% 6
North of England +10 8 £628 +9.61% 15
North West +6 7 £630 +14.55% 8
East of England +7 3 £600 +9.09% 3
Yorkshire +12 1 £600 - 7
Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 England region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 103 (52.82%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (28.21%) Security Cleared
3 54 (27.69%) Information Security
4 53 (27.18%) NIST
5 47 (24.10%) Finance
6 46 (23.59%) Cloud Security
7 42 (21.54%) Azure
8 37 (18.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 34 (17.44%) DV Cleared
9 34 (17.44%) SIEM
10 33 (16.92%) Social Skills
11 32 (16.41%) Identity Access Management
12 30 (15.38%) AWS
13 29 (14.87%) SC Cleared
13 29 (14.87%) Risk Management
14 25 (12.82%) Microsoft
14 25 (12.82%) CISSP
14 25 (12.82%) Network Security
14 25 (12.82%) Application Security
15 23 (11.79%) Penetration Testing
16 22 (11.28%) Firewall
16 22 (11.28%) DevSecOps
17 20 (10.26%) CISM
17 20 (10.26%) Banking
18 19 (9.74%) SAP
18 19 (9.74%) Security Architecture
18 19 (9.74%) Vulnerability Management
18 19 (9.74%) GCP
19 18 (9.23%) Security Posture
20 17 (8.72%) DevOps

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.03%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) SAP GRC
1 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.03%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.03%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.54%) Azure
2 30 (15.38%) AWS
3 19 (9.74%) GCP
4 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.10%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.56%) IaaS
8 3 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.03%) Akamai
9 2 (1.03%) GitHub
9 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.51%) OCI
10 1 (0.51%) PaaS
10 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.51%) SaaS
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.82%) Network Security
2 22 (11.28%) Firewall
3 14 (7.18%) WAN
4 11 (5.64%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.10%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.56%) DNS
6 5 (2.56%) VPN
7 4 (2.05%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.03%) BGP
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (1.03%) DMVPN
9 2 (1.03%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.03%) Internet
9 2 (1.03%) MPLS
9 2 (1.03%) OSPF
9 2 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.59%) SAP BW
2 4 (2.05%) Big Data
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.03%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.05%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.03%) RStudio
General
1 47 (24.10%) Finance
2 33 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.26%) Banking
4 15 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.05%) Electronics
8 4 (2.05%) Marketing
9 3 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Front Office
10 2 (1.03%) German Language
10 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) Back Office
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.59%) JWT
1 7 (3.59%) OpenID
2 4 (2.05%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.54%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Kafka
4 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.23%) Security Posture
2 12 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.62%) PKI
4 8 (4.10%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.56%) IoT
8 3 (1.54%) NHS
8 3 (1.54%) SCADA
9 2 (1.03%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.51%) Contactless
10 1 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.51%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.18%) Windows
2 9 (4.62%) Linux
3 7 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (52.82%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (27.69%) Information Security
3 46 (23.59%) Cloud Security
4 34 (17.44%) SIEM
5 32 (16.41%) Identity Access Management
6 29 (14.87%) Risk Management
7 25 (12.82%) Application Security
8 23 (11.79%) Penetration Testing
9 22 (11.28%) DevSecOps
10 19 (9.74%) Security Architecture
10 19 (9.74%) Vulnerability Management
11 17 (8.72%) DevOps
12 16 (8.21%) Agile
12 16 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (7.69%) OWASP
14 14 (7.18%) SDLC
14 14 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (7.18%) Threat Modelling
15 13 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
15 13 (6.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.13%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.10%) Java
2 8 (4.10%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.03%) R
4 1 (0.51%) C#
4 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.44%) DV Cleared
3 29 (14.87%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.82%) CISSP
5 20 (10.26%) CISM
6 13 (6.67%) Degree
7 10 (5.13%) CRISC
8 8 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.59%) CISA
10 5 (2.56%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (2.56%) CLAS
11 4 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.05%) ISACA
12 3 (1.54%) CCNA
12 3 (1.54%) CCNP
13 2 (1.03%) CEH
13 2 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.51%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.18%) NIST
2 37 (18.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.21%) PCI DSS
4 15 (7.69%) GDPR
5 14 (7.18%) GRC
6 13 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (6.15%) RMADS
8 10 (5.13%) COBIT
9 8 (4.10%) NCSC
10 7 (3.59%) NIST 800
11 6 (3.08%) JSP 440
12 5 (2.56%) ISO 31000
12 5 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (2.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (1.03%) COSO
14 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.51%) ISA99
15 1 (0.51%) ISAE 3402
15 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.05%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) Nessus
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Avamar
4 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.74%) SAP
3 10 (5.13%) ArcSight
4 8 (4.10%) Cisco
5 6 (3.08%) McAfee
5 6 (3.08%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.56%) Google
6 5 (2.56%) Juniper
7 4 (2.05%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.54%) ForeScout
8 3 (1.54%) Okta
8 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.54%) VMware
9 2 (1.03%) Blue Coat
9 2 (1.03%) Concur
9 2 (1.03%) Databricks
9 2 (1.03%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.03%) Teradata
9 2 (1.03%) Zscaler