Head of Cybersecurity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Cybersecurity daily rate in the UK excluding London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 443 500
Rank change year-on-year +62 +57 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Cybersecurity 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.014% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £695 £658 -
25th Percentile £706 £744 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £925 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +48.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £888 £969 £644
90th Percentile £955 £973 £648
UK median daily rate £850 £850 £650
% change year-on-year - +30.77% -10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Head of Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
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 Head of Cybersecurity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South East - 4 £750 -
Head of Cybersecurity
UK

Head of Cybersecurity Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 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 UK excluding London region featuring Head of Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Management
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (25.00%) Nessus

Head of Cybersecurity 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:

General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus