Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 413 589
Rank change year-on-year +85 +176 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 14 51 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.096% 0.21% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.22% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 21
10th Percentile £450 £456 £495
25th Percentile £556 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% +0.84%
75th Percentile £825 £725 £700
90th Percentile - £788 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £613 £575
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% +5.80%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,614 23,092 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,191 16,381 30,896
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 531 571
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +37.60% +64.39%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.23 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Consultant over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

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 3 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 7 (50.00%) NIST
4 6 (42.86%) AWS
5 5 (35.71%) GCP
5 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
5 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
6 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (28.57%) Finance
6 4 (28.57%) ITIL
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
7 3 (21.43%) OWASP
7 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
7 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
7 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) Risk Assessment
8 2 (14.29%) Information Security
8 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (14.29%) Degree
8 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
1 1 (7.14%) RStudio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) OWASP
4 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
4 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Information Security
6 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Data Security
6 1 (7.14%) Information Management
6 1 (7.14%) Information Security Management
6 1 (7.14%) Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) MCSE
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.14%) COBIT
4 1 (7.14%) GDPR
4 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft