Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 366 446
Rank change year-on-year +18 +80 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 5 25 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 27
10th Percentile £375 £450 £458
25th Percentile £431 £594 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £700 £640
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £725 £825 £775
90th Percentile - £875 £843
England median daily rate £688 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London 0 1 £375 -42.31%
Cybersecurity Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) ISMS
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Fire and Rescue
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Police
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Virgin Media