Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 564 748
Rank change year-on-year +84 +184 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 62 89 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.18% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.19% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 56 23
10th Percentile £526 £462 £503
25th Percentile £563 £522 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £775
90th Percentile £825 £806 £838
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £588
% change year-on-year - +6.38% +7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 -

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 34,483 47,741 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,890 33,903 48,246
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,409 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity 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 Cybersecurity Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +81 25 £700 +9.38% 9
South East +27 25 £625 -9.75% 9
North of England +34 7 £575 +15.00% 4
North West +21 4 £575 +53.33% 2
Midlands +34 3 £575 -4.17% 1
West Midlands +29 3 £575 -4.17% 1
Yorkshire +25 3 £575 +15.00% 2
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Cybersecurity 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 Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (46.77%) Security Cleared
3 24 (38.71%) Information Security
4 22 (35.48%) NIST
5 15 (24.19%) DV Cleared
6 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
6 14 (22.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (20.97%) Network Security
7 13 (20.97%) Information Security Management
7 13 (20.97%) Security Management
7 13 (20.97%) SIEM
8 12 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
8 12 (19.35%) Windows
8 12 (19.35%) OWASP
8 12 (19.35%) Azure
8 12 (19.35%) AWS
8 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (17.74%) CISM
9 11 (17.74%) DevSecOps
10 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
10 10 (16.13%) NCSC
10 10 (16.13%) Risk Management
10 10 (16.13%) ArcSight
11 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Management
11 9 (14.52%) CISSP
11 9 (14.52%) Application Security
11 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
12 8 (12.90%) GDPR
12 8 (12.90%) Linux
12 8 (12.90%) Finance

Cybersecurity 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 (3.23%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.35%) AWS
1 12 (19.35%) Azure
2 7 (11.29%) GCP
3 2 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Network Security
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.61%) DNS
4 1 (1.61%) Modbus
4 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.23%) RStudio
General
1 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.45%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Police
7 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Back Office
8 1 (1.61%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Military
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.61%) CSOC
4 1 (1.61%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.61%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.61%) IoT
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
4 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Windows
2 8 (12.90%) Linux
3 7 (11.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (38.71%) Information Security
3 13 (20.97%) Information Security Management
3 13 (20.97%) Security Management
3 13 (20.97%) SIEM
4 12 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
4 12 (19.35%) OWASP
4 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (17.74%) DevSecOps
6 10 (16.13%) Risk Management
7 9 (14.52%) Application Security
7 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Management
8 8 (12.90%) Security Architecture
9 7 (11.29%) Agile
9 7 (11.29%) Cloud Security
9 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
9 7 (11.29%) ITIL
10 6 (9.68%) DevOps
10 6 (9.68%) ISMS
10 6 (9.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (46.77%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.19%) DV Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
4 11 (17.74%) CISM
5 9 (14.52%) CISSP
6 5 (8.06%) ISACA
7 4 (6.45%) CISA
7 4 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (4.84%) CRISC
9 2 (3.23%) Degree
10 1 (1.61%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (35.48%) NIST
2 14 (22.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (16.13%) NCSC
4 8 (12.90%) GDPR
4 8 (12.90%) PCI DSS
5 7 (11.29%) COBIT
6 6 (9.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (6.45%) NIST 800
8 3 (4.84%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.61%) ISA99
9 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.61%) Nessus
3 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) ArcSight
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) McAfee
4 2 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco
5 1 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.61%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.61%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.61%) Splunk