Cybersecurity Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 460 536
Rank change year-on-year -9 +76 +170
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 45 67 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 36
10th Percentile £407 £445 £378
25th Percentile £450 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% -1.88% -
75th Percentile £661 £688 £738
90th Percentile £757 £718 £856
UK median daily rate £488 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -15.40% -3.96% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £86.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 25,496 30,444 39,571
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 92.96% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,435 18,752 27,612
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 1,407 1,371
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.85 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £21.31 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% - +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.27% +69.23%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Consultant job vacancies in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Consultant job vacancies 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 26 September 2025. 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 +23 19 £608 +5.42% 19
South East +13 12 £538 -18.10% 14
North of England -24 9 £475 -13.64% 2
Yorkshire -11 6 £460 -34.29%
North West -19 3 £480 -12.73%
East Midlands -7 2 £575 - 1
Midlands -14 2 £575 - 1
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 2025, 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 45 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (48.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (42.22%) Risk Management
3 19 (42.22%) NIST
4 15 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 15 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 15 (33.33%) Finance
5 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
6 11 (24.44%) Data Protection
6 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
7 10 (22.22%) AWS
7 10 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
8 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (17.78%) Regulatory Compliance
9 8 (17.78%) SIEM
9 8 (17.78%) CISSP
9 8 (17.78%) Security Posture
10 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
10 7 (15.56%) Firewall
10 7 (15.56%) DV Cleared
10 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (13.33%) CISM
11 6 (13.33%) Security Architecture
11 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
11 6 (13.33%) GDPR
11 6 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 6 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (4.44%) GCP
3 2 (4.44%) OCI
3 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) Network Security
2 2 (4.44%) SSL
2 2 (4.44%) VPN
General
1 15 (33.33%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.44%) Aviation
5 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Local Government
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (42.22%) Risk Management
3 15 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 15 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 11 (24.44%) Data Protection
5 10 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
6 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (17.78%) Regulatory Compliance
7 8 (17.78%) SIEM
8 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
9 6 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
9 6 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 6 (13.33%) Security Architecture
9 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
10 5 (11.11%) Information Assurance
10 5 (11.11%) Internal Audit
10 5 (11.11%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.22%) C
1 1 (2.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) CISSP
3 7 (15.56%) DV Cleared
4 6 (13.33%) CISM
5 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.44%) CEH
6 2 (4.44%) CRISC
6 2 (4.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (2.22%) CISA
7 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (48.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (42.22%) NIST
3 6 (13.33%) GDPR
4 5 (11.11%) NIST 800
4 5 (11.11%) RMADS
5 4 (8.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (4.44%) COBIT
6 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) CASB
1 2 (4.44%) Nessus
1 2 (4.44%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.89%) Splunk
1 4 (8.89%) Tenable
2 2 (4.44%) Darktrace
2 2 (4.44%) ExtraHop
2 2 (4.44%) FireEye
2 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
2 2 (4.44%) McAfee
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle
2 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
2 2 (4.44%) Rapid7
2 2 (4.44%) Trend Micro
3 1 (2.22%) Intel