Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 363 428
Rank change year-on-year +12 +65 +155
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 18 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 23
10th Percentile £413 £429 £458
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +0.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £850 £694 £639
90th Percentile £975 £795 £795
England median daily rate £521 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.64% +8.70% -4.17%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,522 15,252 21,778
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 94.01% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,425 10,624 15,986
10th Percentile £325 £346 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 194 237
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.88 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.29 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% -11.24% +8.48%
75th Percentile £49.50 £55.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.88 £78.50
England median hourly rate £25.31 £45.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -43.76% +2.63% +68.64%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 2 £375 -27.15% 7
Cybersecurity Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 5 (27.78%) Information Security
4 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 4 (22.22%) Firewall
4 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 4 (22.22%) Tenable
4 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 4 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
5 3 (16.67%) NIST
5 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) ISMS
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (16.67%) SIEM
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) Splunk
6 2 (11.11%) Azure
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (5.56%) Police
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 6 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (27.78%) Information Security
4 4 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 4 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) ISMS
5 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (16.67%) SIEM
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) COBIT
4 1 (5.56%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) CASB
1 2 (11.11%) Nessus
1 2 (11.11%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (22.22%) Tenable
2 2 (11.11%) Darktrace
2 2 (11.11%) ExtraHop
2 2 (11.11%) FireEye
2 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 2 (11.11%) McAfee
2 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Trend Micro
3 1 (5.56%) Virgin Media