Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 613 791
Rank change year-on-year +93 +178 -177
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 66 103 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.18% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 63 37
10th Percentile £498 £458 £476
25th Percentile £563 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +4.65%
75th Percentile £697 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £775 £804
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in the UK

Cybersecurity Consultant
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +86 59 £625 -3.85% 21
UK excluding London +64 37 £625 +4.17% 17
London +87 24 £700 +9.38% 5
South East +25 24 £625 -9.75% 9
Work from Home +93 16 £575 +15.00% 10
North of England +37 7 £575 +15.00% 2
North West +24 4 £575 +53.33% 2
Scotland +36 3 £590 +28.82% 3
Midlands +34 3 £575 -4.17% 1
West Midlands +27 3 £575 -4.17% 1
Yorkshire +19 3 £575 +15.00%

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (48.48%) Security Cleared
3 23 (34.85%) Information Security
4 19 (28.79%) NIST
5 16 (24.24%) SC Cleared
5 16 (24.24%) DV Cleared
6 15 (22.73%) Windows
7 14 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (19.70%) SIEM
9 12 (18.18%) AWS
9 12 (18.18%) ArcSight
9 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (18.18%) Linux
9 12 (18.18%) CISM
10 11 (16.67%) Information Security Management
10 11 (16.67%) Security Management
10 11 (16.67%) CISSP
10 11 (16.67%) Azure
10 11 (16.67%) Social Skills
10 11 (16.67%) DevSecOps
11 10 (15.15%) NCSC
11 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
11 10 (15.15%) Risk Management
12 9 (13.64%) Network Security
12 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
12 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (13.64%) OWASP
13 8 (12.12%) PCI DSS
13 8 (12.12%) Security Architecture
13 8 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.03%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) GCP
4 2 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (1.52%) IaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.52%) PaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) Network Security
2 4 (6.06%) Firewall
3 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.52%) DNS
4 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.52%) LAN
4 1 (1.52%) Modbus
4 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.52%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.03%) Big Data
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.03%) RStudio
General
1 11 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.12%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Police
7 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Back Office
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.52%) LDAP
1 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Data Centre
1 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
1 5 (7.58%) Security Posture
2 4 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.52%) CSOC
4 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.52%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.52%) IoT
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) PKI
4 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Windows
2 12 (18.18%) Linux
3 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (34.85%) Information Security
3 13 (19.70%) SIEM
4 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 11 (16.67%) Information Security Management
5 11 (16.67%) Security Management
6 10 (15.15%) Risk Management
7 9 (13.64%) OWASP
8 8 (12.12%) Cloud Security
8 8 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (12.12%) Security Architecture
8 8 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (10.61%) Agile
9 7 (10.61%) Application Security
9 7 (10.61%) Data Protection
10 6 (9.09%) ISMS
10 6 (9.09%) ITIL
10 6 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (7.58%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.24%) DV Cleared
2 16 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.18%) CISM
4 11 (16.67%) CISSP
5 4 (6.06%) CISA
5 4 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.06%) ISACA
6 3 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.55%) CRISC
6 3 (4.55%) Degree
7 1 (1.52%) CCNA
7 1 (1.52%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (28.79%) NIST
2 14 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (15.15%) NCSC
4 8 (12.12%) PCI DSS
5 6 (9.09%) GDPR
5 6 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
6 5 (7.58%) COBIT
7 4 (6.06%) NIST 800
8 3 (4.55%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.52%) ISA99
9 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.52%) Nessus
2 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) ArcSight
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) McAfee
4 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.52%) ForeScout
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle
4 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.52%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.52%) Splunk