Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 361 406
Rank change year-on-year +30 +45 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 8 38 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 29 26
10th Percentile £513 £560 £458
25th Percentile £569 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £703
90th Percentile £768 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £675 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate - - £90.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +19 3 - - 3
South East +23 2 - - 14
Scotland +12 2 £588 -0.42% 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
North of England +17 1 £775 +34.78% 14
West Midlands +13 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £775 -
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) NIST
3 5 (62.50%) CISM
3 5 (62.50%) CISSP
4 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (37.50%) Information Security
5 3 (37.50%) OWASP
5 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (25.00%) CRISC
6 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
6 2 (25.00%) COBIT
6 2 (25.00%) Network Security
6 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
6 2 (25.00%) Security Management
6 2 (25.00%) ITIL
6 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (25.00%) GRC
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Application Security
6 2 (25.00%) GDPR
6 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (25.00%) Budget Management

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) OWASP
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Application Security
4 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 2 (25.00%) Budgeting
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Security Management
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (12.50%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISM
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) CRISC
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) ISACA
3 1 (12.50%) OSCP
3 1 (12.50%) SANS
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) COBIT
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) GRC
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) F5
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Tenable