Security Consultant Contracts

Security Consultant
UK

The median Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £601 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 368 365 510
Rank change year-on-year -3 +145 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Security Consultant 218 354 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.66% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 231 236
10th Percentile £464 £450 £425
25th Percentile £525 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £659
90th Percentile £800 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £74.93 £33.50
25th Percentile - £77.44 £38.75
Median hourly rate - £83.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +108.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile - £87.44 £50.00
90th Percentile - £88.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £83.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Consultant in the UK

Security Consultant
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
England +38 195 £623 +3.75% 84
London +67 102 £594 -1.04% 28
UK excluding London +16 97 £625 +13.64% 56
Work from Home -9 60 £575 +4.55% 42
South East +10 52 £625 -1.96% 13
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% 1
Yorkshire +12 1 £600 - 7

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

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 featuring Security Consultant in the job title.

1 111 (50.92%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (29.82%) Information Security
3 57 (26.15%) Security Cleared
4 55 (25.23%) NIST
5 50 (22.94%) Finance
6 48 (22.02%) Cloud Security
7 47 (21.56%) Azure
8 42 (19.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 36 (16.51%) SIEM
9 36 (16.51%) Social Skills
9 36 (16.51%) Identity Access Management
10 34 (15.60%) DV Cleared
11 33 (15.14%) Application Security
12 32 (14.68%) AWS
12 32 (14.68%) Risk Management
12 32 (14.68%) CISSP
13 31 (14.22%) Penetration Testing
13 31 (14.22%) SC Cleared
14 28 (12.84%) Network Security
15 27 (12.39%) Firewall
15 27 (12.39%) Microsoft
16 23 (10.55%) CISM
16 23 (10.55%) Agile
16 23 (10.55%) Vulnerability Management
16 23 (10.55%) DevSecOps
17 22 (10.09%) Banking
18 21 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (9.63%) DevOps
18 21 (9.63%) GCP
19 20 (9.17%) Threat Modelling

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) SAP GRC
1 4 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.92%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.92%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.56%) Azure
2 32 (14.68%) AWS
3 21 (9.63%) GCP
4 9 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.29%) IaaS
8 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.92%) Akamai
9 2 (0.92%) GitHub
9 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.92%) SaaS
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.46%) OCI
10 1 (0.46%) PaaS
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.84%) Network Security
2 27 (12.39%) Firewall
3 14 (6.42%) WAN
4 11 (5.05%) Cisco ISE
4 11 (5.05%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.29%) DNS
5 5 (2.29%) VPN
6 4 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.38%) NGFW
7 3 (1.38%) Wireless
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.92%) DMVPN
8 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.92%) IPsec
8 2 (0.92%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.21%) SAP BW
2 4 (1.83%) Big Data
3 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.92%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.92%) RStudio
3 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (22.94%) Finance
2 36 (16.51%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.09%) Banking
4 19 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.83%) Electronics
8 4 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (0.92%) Front Office
9 2 (0.92%) German Language
9 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Back Office
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.21%) JWT
1 7 (3.21%) OpenID
2 4 (1.83%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.38%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.46%) .NET
4 1 (0.46%) Kafka
4 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.72%) Security Posture
2 13 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.59%) Operational Technology
4 9 (4.13%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.13%) PKI
5 7 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.29%) IoT
8 3 (1.38%) NHS
8 3 (1.38%) SCADA
9 2 (0.92%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.92%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.42%) Windows
2 11 (5.05%) Linux
3 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.92%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (29.82%) Information Security
3 48 (22.02%) Cloud Security
4 36 (16.51%) Identity Access Management
4 36 (16.51%) SIEM
5 33 (15.14%) Application Security
6 32 (14.68%) Risk Management
7 31 (14.22%) Penetration Testing
8 23 (10.55%) Agile
8 23 (10.55%) DevSecOps
8 23 (10.55%) Vulnerability Management
9 21 (9.63%) DevOps
9 21 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (9.17%) Threat Modelling
11 19 (8.72%) SDLC
11 19 (8.72%) Security Architecture
12 18 (8.26%) Risk Assessment
13 16 (7.34%) OWASP
13 16 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (5.96%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.59%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.67%) Java
2 8 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (0.92%) R
3 2 (0.92%) SQL
4 1 (0.46%) C#
4 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.46%) RPG
Qualifications
1 57 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.60%) DV Cleared
3 32 (14.68%) CISSP
4 31 (14.22%) SC Cleared
5 23 (10.55%) CISM
6 16 (7.34%) Degree
7 12 (5.50%) CRISC
8 9 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.21%) CISA
10 5 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.29%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (2.29%) CLAS
11 4 (1.83%) CEH
11 4 (1.83%) ISACA
12 3 (1.38%) CCNA
12 3 (1.38%) CCNP
12 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.92%) CCSP
13 2 (0.92%) MCSE
13 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (25.23%) NIST
2 42 (19.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.80%) PCI DSS
4 16 (7.34%) GDPR
5 15 (6.88%) GRC
6 13 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (5.50%) RMADS
8 10 (4.59%) COBIT
9 8 (3.67%) NCSC
10 7 (3.21%) NIST 800
11 6 (2.75%) JSP 440
12 5 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (2.29%) ISO 31000
12 5 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (1.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.92%) COSO
16 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.92%) Docker
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.83%) Terraform
3 3 (1.38%) Nessus
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Avamar
4 1 (0.46%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.72%) SAP
3 11 (5.05%) Cisco
4 10 (4.59%) ArcSight
5 7 (3.21%) CheckPoint
6 6 (2.75%) Google
6 6 (2.75%) McAfee
6 6 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.29%) Juniper
7 5 (2.29%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.83%) IBM
8 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.38%) ForeScout
9 3 (1.38%) Okta
9 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.38%) Tufin
9 3 (1.38%) VMware
10 2 (0.92%) Concur
10 2 (0.92%) Databricks
10 2 (0.92%) Rapid7