Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 328 430
Rank change year-on-year +31 +102 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 7 17 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 27
10th Percentile £363 - £448
25th Percentile £400 £563 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +22.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £725
90th Percentile £648 - £800
UK median daily rate £675 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +6.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cybersecurity Consultant.

Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cybersecurity Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Security Management
2 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security Management
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (28.57%) NCSC
4 2 (28.57%) NIST
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Application Security
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (14.29%) Firewall
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) CISSP
5 1 (14.29%) Internet
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
5 1 (14.29%) COBIT
5 1 (14.29%) SCADA
5 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Network Security

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Police
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
2 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 4 (57.14%) Security Management
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security Management
4 2 (28.57%) Application Security
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) COBIT
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft