Security Consultant Contracts in the North of England

Security Consultant
England > North of England

The median Security Consultant daily rate in the North of England is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 173 228
Rank change year-on-year +3 +55 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 15 29 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.53% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.56% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 19
10th Percentile £543 £460 £410
25th Percentile £578 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% -8.33% +6.95%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £641
90th Percentile £755 £685 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the North of England

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in the North of England

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Consultant in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in the North of England

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in the North of England

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +10 12 £640 +16.36% 9
Yorkshire +5 3 £600 - 10
Security Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 North of England region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Information Security
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) NIST
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 3 (20.00%) Application Security
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Windows
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
5 2 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Information Security
3 3 (20.00%) Application Security
3 3 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team Management
5 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (6.67%) Observability
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
2 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Teradata