Head of Cybersecurity Contracts in London

Head of Cybersecurity
England > London

The median Head of Cybersecurity daily rate in London is £875 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 488 597
Rank change year-on-year +102 +109 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Cybersecurity 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.012% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £635 - -
25th Percentile £725 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £850 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +30.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £941 - £963
90th Percentile £969 - -
England median daily rate £850 £850 £625
% change year-on-year - +36.00% -12.28%

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 16,498 25,529 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,487 27,116
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 291 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.80 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Head of Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Cybersecurity in London

Head of Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Cybersecurity in London

Head of Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Cybersecurity in London

Head of Cybersecurity Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Head of Cybersecurity 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 Head of Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (25.00%) Local Government
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) COBIT
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Finance

Head of Cybersecurity 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 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (25.00%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) COBIT
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001