Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in the City of London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 169 195
Rank change year-on-year +41 +26 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.22% 0.11% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.11% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £475 £643 -
25th Percentile £531 £678 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £770 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +10.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £681 £878 -
90th Percentile £685 £921 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £770 £700
% change year-on-year -15.58% +10.00% +100.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,116 3,524 4,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.24% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 2,380 3,073
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £85.66 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the City of London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the City of London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the City of London

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 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 City of London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) McAfee
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Key Management
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) NCSC
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) RStudio
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (20.00%) Security Auditing
4 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (20.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Security Auditing
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) McAfee