Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 448 585
Rank change year-on-year +78 +137 -148
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 24 47 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.17% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.18% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 10
10th Percentile £450 £458 £500
25th Percentile £634 £506 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £775
90th Percentile £875 £843 £813
England median daily rate £625 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
Central London +40 5 £650 -15.58%
Cybersecurity Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) NIST
2 10 (41.67%) DevSecOps
3 9 (37.50%) Azure
4 8 (33.33%) Finance
5 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (29.17%) Security Architecture
5 7 (29.17%) PCI DSS
5 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
5 7 (29.17%) GCP
6 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (20.83%) Information Security
7 5 (20.83%) Agile
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
8 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (16.67%) McAfee
8 4 (16.67%) CISA
8 4 (16.67%) CISM
8 4 (16.67%) Windows
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.67%) NIST 800
9 3 (12.50%) ISO 31000
9 3 (12.50%) Conflict Management
9 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 3 (12.50%) Business Agility
9 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Modbus
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 2 (8.33%) RStudio
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) CSOC
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (4.17%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (41.67%) DevSecOps
3 7 (29.17%) Security Architecture
3 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Information Security
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Business Agility
6 3 (12.50%) Coaching
6 3 (12.50%) Conflict Management
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.50%) OWASP
6 3 (12.50%) SABSA
7 2 (8.33%) Information Management
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) SIEM
8 1 (4.17%) Business Strategy
8 1 (4.17%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) CISA
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (16.67%) CISM
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (12.50%) CRISC
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) CISSP
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) NIST
2 7 (29.17%) PCI DSS
3 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (16.67%) NIST 800
4 3 (12.50%) ISO 31000
4 3 (12.50%) NCSC
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (4.17%) ISA99
5 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.17%) Nessus
2 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) McAfee
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.17%) ForeScout
3 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.17%) Rapid7