Security Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625 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 301 317 393
Rank change year-on-year +16 +76 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 97 130 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.60% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 75 74
10th Percentile £468 £415 £413
25th Percentile £525 £488 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £734
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,265 21,604 29,212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,031 20,565
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,082 1,393
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.19
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK excluding London

Security Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +37 7 £525 +22.38% 5
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 51 (52.58%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (47.42%) Security Cleared
3 30 (30.93%) DV Cleared
4 26 (26.80%) NIST
5 23 (23.71%) SC Cleared
5 23 (23.71%) Information Security
6 18 (18.56%) Risk Management
7 17 (17.53%) Network Security
8 15 (15.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
8 15 (15.46%) Cloud Security
9 13 (13.40%) SAP
9 13 (13.40%) CISSP
9 13 (13.40%) Azure
9 13 (13.40%) SIEM
10 12 (12.37%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (12.37%) RMADS
11 11 (11.34%) Agile
11 11 (11.34%) ITIL
11 11 (11.34%) Linux
11 11 (11.34%) OWASP
11 11 (11.34%) Social Skills
11 11 (11.34%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (11.34%) GDPR
12 10 (10.31%) ArcSight
12 10 (10.31%) Windows
12 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.31%) Application Security
13 9 (9.28%) Firewall
13 9 (9.28%) Security Management

Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) SAP GRC
1 3 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.06%) SAP BPC
2 2 (2.06%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.40%) Azure
2 9 (9.28%) AWS
3 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.09%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (2.06%) GCP
5 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.03%) IaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
6 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.53%) Network Security
2 9 (9.28%) Firewall
3 6 (6.19%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (5.15%) DNS
4 5 (5.15%) VPN
5 4 (4.12%) WAN
6 3 (3.09%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.06%) BGP
7 2 (2.06%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.06%) EIGRP
7 2 (2.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (2.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (2.06%) Internet
7 2 (2.06%) IPsec
7 2 (2.06%) MPLS
7 2 (2.06%) OSPF
7 2 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.06%) Sourcefire
7 2 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) SAP BW
2 2 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.06%) Big Data
2 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.06%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
General
1 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.34%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.19%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.12%) Electronics
5 4 (4.12%) Marketing
6 2 (2.06%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.03%) French Language
7 1 (1.03%) German Language
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) SailPoint
1 3 (3.09%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Operational Technology
2 6 (6.19%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.09%) IoT
5 2 (2.06%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.06%) SCADA
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.03%) Contactless
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.34%) Linux
2 10 (10.31%) Windows
3 7 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (23.71%) Information Security
3 18 (18.56%) Risk Management
4 15 (15.46%) Cloud Security
5 13 (13.40%) SIEM
6 12 (12.37%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (11.34%) Agile
7 11 (11.34%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (11.34%) ITIL
7 11 (11.34%) OWASP
8 10 (10.31%) Application Security
8 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.28%) Security Management
9 9 (9.28%) Threat Modelling
10 8 (8.25%) Information Security Management
10 8 (8.25%) Risk Assessment
11 7 (7.22%) Conflict Resolution
11 7 (7.22%) SAP Security
11 7 (7.22%) SDLC
11 7 (7.22%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.28%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 46 (47.42%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.93%) DV Cleared
3 23 (23.71%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.40%) CISSP
5 8 (8.25%) Degree
6 6 (6.19%) CISM
7 5 (5.15%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.15%) CLAS
8 4 (4.12%) ISACA
9 3 (3.09%) CCNP
9 3 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.06%) CCNA
10 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.06%) CRISC
10 2 (2.06%) MCSE
10 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.80%) NIST
2 15 (15.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (12.37%) RMADS
4 11 (11.34%) GDPR
5 9 (9.28%) COBIT
6 6 (6.19%) GRC
6 6 (6.19%) JSP 440
6 6 (6.19%) PCI DSS
7 4 (4.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (2.06%) COSO
8 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.03%) Nessus
1 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) SAP
2 10 (10.31%) ArcSight
3 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.19%) Cisco
5 5 (5.15%) Juniper
5 5 (5.15%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.06%) Aruba
6 2 (2.06%) Blue Coat
6 2 (2.06%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.06%) Concur
6 2 (2.06%) Databricks
6 2 (2.06%) F5
6 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.06%) McAfee
6 2 (2.06%) Splunk
6 2 (2.06%) Teradata
6 2 (2.06%) VMware
6 2 (2.06%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.03%) Salesforce