Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 548 750
Rank change year-on-year +64 +202 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 59 90 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.19% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 57 19
10th Percentile £458 £470 £510
25th Percentile £559 £525 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.77%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £811
90th Percentile £806 £804 £875
UK median daily rate £625 £613 £563
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +68 28 £675 +10.20% 8
South East +23 25 £625 -8.76% 4
North of England +18 3 £600 +20.00% 3
North West +15 2 £638 +27.50% 2
Yorkshire +12 1 £600 +20.00% 1
South West +3 1 £550 -6.38% 5
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (40.68%) Security Cleared
3 23 (38.98%) NIST
4 18 (30.51%) Information Security
5 15 (25.42%) DV Cleared
5 15 (25.42%) SIEM
6 13 (22.03%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (20.34%) Azure
7 12 (20.34%) AWS
7 12 (20.34%) Network Security
8 11 (18.64%) Windows
9 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
9 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
9 10 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (16.95%) OWASP
9 10 (16.95%) ArcSight
9 10 (16.95%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
10 9 (15.25%) Application Security
10 9 (15.25%) Cloud Security
10 9 (15.25%) Risk Management
11 8 (13.56%) Finance
11 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
11 8 (13.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (13.56%) Security Architecture
11 8 (13.56%) DevSecOps
12 7 (11.86%) GDPR
12 7 (11.86%) Security Posture
12 7 (11.86%) GCP
12 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.39%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) AWS
1 12 (20.34%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) GCP
3 2 (3.39%) GitHub
4 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.34%) Network Security
2 4 (6.78%) Firewall
3 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.39%) WAN
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.69%) DNS
4 1 (1.69%) LAN
4 1 (1.69%) Modbus
4 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.39%) Big Data
2 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.39%) RStudio
General
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Finance
3 7 (11.86%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Back Office
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) JWT
1 2 (3.39%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) CSOC
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.69%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.69%) IoT
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.69%) PKI
5 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (30.51%) Information Security
3 15 (25.42%) SIEM
4 13 (22.03%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (16.95%) OWASP
5 10 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (16.95%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (15.25%) Application Security
6 9 (15.25%) Cloud Security
6 9 (15.25%) Risk Management
7 8 (13.56%) DevSecOps
7 8 (13.56%) Security Architecture
8 6 (10.17%) Information Security Management
8 6 (10.17%) ITIL
8 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.17%) Security Management
9 5 (8.47%) Agile
9 5 (8.47%) Conflict Resolution
9 5 (8.47%) DevOps
9 5 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.39%) Java
2 2 (3.39%) R
3 1 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (40.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) DV Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) CISM
4 4 (6.78%) CISSP
4 4 (6.78%) ISACA
5 3 (5.08%) CISA
5 3 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.39%) CRISC
6 2 (3.39%) Degree
7 1 (1.69%) CCNA
7 1 (1.69%) CEH
7 1 (1.69%) GIAC
7 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.98%) NIST
2 8 (13.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (11.86%) GDPR
3 7 (11.86%) PCI DSS
4 6 (10.17%) COBIT
5 3 (5.08%) NCSC
5 3 (5.08%) NIST 800
6 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.39%) ISO 31000
7 1 (1.69%) ISA99
7 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.69%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Nessus
4 1 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) ArcSight
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) McAfee
3 2 (3.39%) CheckPoint
3 2 (3.39%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco
4 1 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.69%) ForeScout
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk