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 16 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
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 577 803
Rank change year-on-year +67 +226 -191
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 66 107 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 68 26
10th Percentile £450 £458 £498
25th Percentile £532 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +4.65%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £769 £782 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £591 £563
% change year-on-year +5.77% +5.05% +12.50%
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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 16 May 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 16 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
England +79 56 £625 -2.34% 19
UK excluding London +52 37 £625 +5.77% 13
London +77 24 £688 +12.24% 5
South East +25 24 £625 -9.75% 5
Work from Home +87 16 £613 +11.36% 12
Scotland +35 6 £538 +17.36% 1
North of England +23 5 £575 +15.00% 4
North West +19 3 £575 +53.33% 2
Midlands +26 2 £600 +9.09% 1
West Midlands +26 2 £600 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire +11 2 £575 +15.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (42.42%) Security Cleared
3 23 (34.85%) Information Security
4 22 (33.33%) NIST
5 15 (22.73%) DV Cleared
6 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
6 13 (19.70%) Azure
6 13 (19.70%) SIEM
6 13 (19.70%) Windows
7 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (18.18%) Network Security
7 12 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
8 11 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 11 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 11 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (15.15%) Linux
9 10 (15.15%) ITIL
9 10 (15.15%) OWASP
9 10 (15.15%) ArcSight
9 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
10 9 (13.64%) Application Security
10 9 (13.64%) AWS
10 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
10 9 (13.64%) Information Security Management
10 9 (13.64%) Security Management
11 8 (12.12%) CISSP
11 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
12 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (10.61%) PCI DSS

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 13 (19.70%) Azure
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
3 4 (6.06%) GCP
4 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.52%) IaaS
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.52%) PaaS
6 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) Network Security
2 5 (7.58%) Firewall
3 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.03%) LAN
4 2 (3.03%) WAN
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.52%) DNS
5 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.52%) Modbus
5 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.52%) SSL
5 1 (1.52%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) WLAN
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 6 (9.09%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
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%) .NET
1 1 (1.52%) LDAP
1 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Security Posture
2 6 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.52%) CSOC
5 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.52%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.52%) IoT
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
5 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) Windows
2 10 (15.15%) Linux
3 7 (10.61%) 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%) Identity Access Management
4 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 11 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (15.15%) ITIL
6 10 (15.15%) OWASP
7 9 (13.64%) Application Security
7 9 (13.64%) Information Security Management
7 9 (13.64%) Security Management
8 7 (10.61%) Agile
8 7 (10.61%) Cloud Security
8 7 (10.61%) DevSecOps
8 7 (10.61%) Security Architecture
9 6 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
9 6 (9.09%) Roadmaps
10 5 (7.58%) Conflict Resolution
10 5 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.12%) CISSP
5 7 (10.61%) CISM
6 5 (7.58%) Degree
7 4 (6.06%) ISACA
8 3 (4.55%) CISA
8 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (3.03%) CRISC
9 2 (3.03%) MCSE
9 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.52%) CCNA
10 1 (1.52%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (33.33%) NIST
2 11 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (10.61%) PCI DSS
4 6 (9.09%) COBIT
4 6 (9.09%) GDPR
4 6 (9.09%) NCSC
5 3 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (4.55%) NIST 800
6 2 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.03%) ISO 31000
7 1 (1.52%) ISA99
7 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 3 (4.55%) Terraform
2 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Nessus
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) ArcSight
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) McAfee
4 2 (3.03%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.03%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.52%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk
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