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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 577 786
Rank change year-on-year +67 +209 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 65 105 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 67 30
10th Percentile £450 £458 £500
25th Percentile £527 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +3.50%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £769 £785 £844
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £569
% change year-on-year - +9.89% +13.75%
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 1 June 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 10 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 1 June 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 +56 59 £625 - 29
UK excluding London +29 33 £625 - 20
London +76 28 £675 +10.20% 10
South East +23 25 £625 -8.76% 4
Work from Home +76 14 £650 +18.18% 17
Scotland +37 4 £488 +6.44% 2
North of England +15 3 £600 +20.00% 4
North West +17 2 £638 +27.50% 3
Yorkshire +14 1 £600 +20.00% 1
South West 0 1 £550 -6.38% 6

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 job ads featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 23 (35.38%) NIST
4 19 (29.23%) Information Security
5 16 (24.62%) SIEM
6 15 (23.08%) DV Cleared
6 15 (23.08%) Azure
7 13 (20.00%) AWS
7 13 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
8 12 (18.46%) Network Security
9 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (16.92%) Windows
9 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
9 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
9 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
10 10 (15.38%) Application Security
10 10 (15.38%) Cloud Security
10 10 (15.38%) OWASP
10 10 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (15.38%) ArcSight
11 9 (13.85%) ITIL
11 9 (13.85%) Risk Management
11 9 (13.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (12.31%) Finance
12 8 (12.31%) Agile
12 8 (12.31%) Banking
12 8 (12.31%) Linux
12 8 (12.31%) GCP
12 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
12 8 (12.31%) Security Architecture

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 (3.08%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) AWS
3 8 (12.31%) GCP
4 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.46%) Network Security
2 5 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.08%) WAN
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.54%) DNS
4 1 (1.54%) LAN
4 1 (1.54%) Modbus
4 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.54%) SSL
4 1 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.08%) Big Data
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.08%) RStudio
General
1 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Banking
2 8 (12.31%) Finance
2 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Back Office
5 1 (1.54%) Legal
5 1 (1.54%) Military
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) JWT
1 2 (3.08%) OpenID
2 1 (1.54%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Security Posture
2 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) CSOC
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.54%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.54%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) PKI
6 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.92%) Windows
2 8 (12.31%) Linux
3 7 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (29.23%) Information Security
3 16 (24.62%) SIEM
4 13 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (15.38%) Application Security
6 10 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 10 (15.38%) OWASP
6 10 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
7 9 (13.85%) ITIL
7 9 (13.85%) Risk Management
8 8 (12.31%) Agile
8 8 (12.31%) DevSecOps
8 8 (12.31%) Security Architecture
9 6 (9.23%) Information Security Management
9 6 (9.23%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.23%) Security Management
9 6 (9.23%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.08%) Java
2 2 (3.08%) R
3 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) CISM
4 5 (7.69%) CISSP
4 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 4 (6.15%) ISACA
6 3 (4.62%) CISA
6 3 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.08%) CEH
7 2 (3.08%) CRISC
7 2 (3.08%) MCSE
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.54%) CCNA
8 1 (1.54%) GIAC
8 1 (1.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (35.38%) NIST
2 9 (13.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (10.77%) GDPR
3 7 (10.77%) PCI DSS
4 6 (9.23%) COBIT
5 3 (4.62%) NCSC
5 3 (4.62%) NIST 800
6 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.08%) ISO 31000
7 1 (1.54%) ISA99
7 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.54%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Nessus
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.38%) ArcSight
3 4 (6.15%) McAfee
4 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.08%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.54%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk