Senior Security Consultant Contracts

Senior Security Consultant
UK

The median Senior Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £580, 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 573 692 822
Rank change year-on-year +119 +130 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Consultant 11 5 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.009% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.010% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile - £620 £495
25th Percentile £468 £641 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +27.27% -24.14%
75th Percentile £744 £781 £719
90th Percentile £775 £815 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £700 £719
% change year-on-year -30.71% -2.64% +7.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.00
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Senior Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Consultant over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Consultant in the UK

Senior Security Consultant
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Consultant within the UK 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
England +93 11 £580 -19.30% 10
UK excluding London +35 8 £485 -30.71% 4
Midlands - 7 £485 - 2
West Midlands - 7 £485 - 2
London +82 3 £750 +4.35% 5
South East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Security Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) SAP
2 6 (54.55%) SAP Security
2 6 (54.55%) SAP BW
3 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (36.36%) Test Management
5 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
5 3 (27.27%) Information Security
5 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (27.27%) NIST
5 3 (27.27%) Conflict Resolution
6 2 (18.18%) GRC
6 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Application Security
6 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (18.18%) SAP HANA
6 2 (18.18%) SailPoint
6 2 (18.18%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (18.18%) Concur
6 2 (18.18%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (18.18%) SAP GRC
6 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
6 2 (18.18%) Finance
6 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (18.18%) ERP

Senior Security 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP BPC
1 2 (18.18%) SAP ERP
1 2 (18.18%) SAP GRC
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SAP BW
2 2 (18.18%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) SailPoint
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) SAP Security
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Test Management
3 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (27.27%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Information Security
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Application Security
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
5 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) Information Security Management
6 1 (9.09%) Security Management
6 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) GRC
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (9.09%) COBIT
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Concur
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft