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 21 May 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 547 745
Rank change year-on-year +59 +198 -166
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 54 93 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.19% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 60 17
10th Percentile £450 £462 £508
25th Percentile £600 £522 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £633 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +1.20% +18.99%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £810
90th Percentile £825 £800 £896
UK median daily rate £625 £606 £563
% change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% +4.65%
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 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +30 25 £625 -8.76% 4
London +72 24 £688 +12.24% 10
North of England +21 3 £638 +27.50% 4
North West +24 2 £638 +70.00% 2
Midlands +19 1 £625 +21.95% 1
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 2
West Midlands +13 1 £625 +21.95% 1
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 54 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
3 22 (40.74%) NIST
4 18 (33.33%) Information Security
5 15 (27.78%) DV Cleared
6 13 (24.07%) SIEM
7 12 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (22.22%) Network Security
7 12 (22.22%) Windows
8 10 (18.52%) Risk Management
8 10 (18.52%) OWASP
8 10 (18.52%) Azure
8 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (18.52%) ArcSight
8 10 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (16.67%) AWS
9 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
10 8 (14.81%) Application Security
10 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
10 8 (14.81%) Linux
11 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
11 7 (12.96%) PCI DSS
11 7 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (12.96%) Security Architecture
11 7 (12.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps
12 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
12 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
12 6 (11.11%) 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 (3.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) Azure
2 9 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) Network Security
2 4 (7.41%) Firewall
3 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.70%) WAN
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.85%) DNS
4 1 (1.85%) LAN
4 1 (1.85%) Modbus
4 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.85%) VPN
4 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.70%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.70%) RStudio
General
1 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Banking
3 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Back Office
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.26%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.26%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) CSOC
4 1 (1.85%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.85%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.85%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Windows
2 8 (14.81%) Linux
3 7 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (33.33%) Information Security
3 13 (24.07%) SIEM
4 12 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (18.52%) OWASP
5 10 (18.52%) Risk Management
5 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (14.81%) Application Security
7 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps
7 7 (12.96%) Security Architecture
8 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 6 (11.11%) Information Security Management
8 6 (11.11%) ITIL
8 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 6 (11.11%) Security Management
9 5 (9.26%) Conflict Resolution
9 5 (9.26%) DevOps
10 4 (7.41%) Agile
10 4 (7.41%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) ISACA
5 3 (5.56%) CISA
5 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.56%) CISM
5 3 (5.56%) CISSP
6 2 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.70%) CRISC
6 2 (3.70%) Degree
7 1 (1.85%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (40.74%) NIST
2 7 (12.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (12.96%) PCI DSS
3 6 (11.11%) COBIT
3 6 (11.11%) GDPR
4 3 (5.56%) NCSC
4 3 (5.56%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.70%) ISO 31000
6 1 (1.85%) ISA99
6 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Nessus
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) ArcSight
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) McAfee
4 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.70%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.85%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.85%) Splunk