Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 417 500
Rank change year-on-year +63 +83 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 37 40 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.17% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 13
10th Percentile £560 £458 £413
25th Percentile £563 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £703 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £625 £613 £573
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.99% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 -

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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity 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 Cybersecurity Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +34 24 £625 -9.75% 7
North of England +25 7 £575 +15.00% 4
North West +20 4 £575 +53.33% 3
Scotland +37 3 £590 +28.82% 1
Midlands +29 3 £575 -4.17% 2
West Midlands +26 3 £575 -4.17% 2
Yorkshire +19 3 £575 +15.00% 1
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
3 20 (54.05%) Information Security
4 12 (32.43%) Information Security Management
4 12 (32.43%) Security Management
4 12 (32.43%) DV Cleared
5 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
6 10 (27.03%) ArcSight
6 10 (27.03%) SIEM
6 10 (27.03%) Network Security
6 10 (27.03%) Linux
6 10 (27.03%) NIST
7 9 (24.32%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (24.32%) Risk Management
8 8 (21.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (21.62%) Windows
8 8 (21.62%) Vulnerability Management
8 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
9 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
9 7 (18.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (18.92%) OWASP
9 7 (18.92%) ITIL
10 6 (16.22%) CISM
10 6 (16.22%) CISSP
10 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (16.22%) ISMS
10 6 (16.22%) Data Protection
10 6 (16.22%) COBIT
10 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
10 6 (16.22%) Application Security

Cybersecurity 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) AWS
1 2 (5.41%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Network Security
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
General
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Police
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Banking
3 1 (2.70%) Law
3 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.70%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 8 (21.62%) Windows
3 7 (18.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (54.05%) Information Security
3 12 (32.43%) Information Security Management
3 12 (32.43%) Security Management
4 10 (27.03%) SIEM
5 9 (24.32%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (24.32%) Risk Management
6 8 (21.62%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (18.92%) ITIL
7 7 (18.92%) OWASP
8 6 (16.22%) Application Security
8 6 (16.22%) Data Protection
8 6 (16.22%) ISMS
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (13.51%) Conflict Resolution
9 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
10 4 (10.81%) Budget Management
10 4 (10.81%) Budgeting
10 4 (10.81%) Capacity Management
10 4 (10.81%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) DV Cleared
3 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) CISM
4 6 (16.22%) CISSP
5 4 (10.81%) ISACA
6 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) NIST
2 8 (21.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (16.22%) COBIT
3 6 (16.22%) GDPR
3 6 (16.22%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (16.22%) NCSC
4 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) ArcSight
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk