Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Consultant
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 546 752
Rank change year-on-year +62 +206 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 66 90 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.19% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 58 21
10th Percentile £455 £471 £530
25th Percentile £556 £516 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +29.63%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £813
90th Percentile £813 £803 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £613 £575
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% +4.55%
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 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
London +63 28 £675 +10.20% 13
South East +27 25 £625 -8.76% 5
North of England +12 7 £600 +20.00% 3
North West +13 4 £638 +27.50% 2
Yorkshire +11 3 £600 +20.00% 1
South West -1 3 £550 -6.38% 7
West Midlands +15 1 - - 2
Midlands +13 1 - - 2
Cybersecurity Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (46.97%) Security Cleared
3 24 (36.36%) NIST
4 22 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 18 (27.27%) Information Security
6 14 (21.21%) SIEM
7 13 (19.70%) Identity Access Management
8 12 (18.18%) Azure
8 12 (18.18%) AWS
8 12 (18.18%) Network Security
9 11 (16.67%) OWASP
10 10 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
10 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (15.15%) Windows
10 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
10 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
11 9 (13.64%) Application Security
11 9 (13.64%) Cloud Security
11 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
11 9 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (13.64%) Security Architecture
11 9 (13.64%) ArcSight
12 8 (12.12%) Finance
12 8 (12.12%) DevSecOps
13 7 (10.61%) GDPR
13 7 (10.61%) Security Posture
13 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
13 7 (10.61%) Banking
13 7 (10.61%) PCI DSS

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 (3.03%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) AWS
1 12 (18.18%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) GCP
3 2 (3.03%) GitHub
4 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) Network Security
2 4 (6.06%) Firewall
3 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) WAN
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.52%) DNS
4 1 (1.52%) LAN
4 1 (1.52%) Modbus
4 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 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 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Finance
3 7 (10.61%) Banking
4 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Back Office
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) JWT
1 2 (3.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Security Posture
2 6 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) CSOC
5 1 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
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%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
5 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (27.27%) Information Security
3 14 (21.21%) SIEM
4 13 (19.70%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (16.67%) OWASP
6 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
7 9 (13.64%) Application Security
7 9 (13.64%) Cloud Security
7 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
7 9 (13.64%) Security Architecture
8 8 (12.12%) DevSecOps
9 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
10 6 (9.09%) Information Security Management
10 6 (9.09%) ITIL
10 6 (9.09%) Security Management
11 5 (7.58%) Agile
11 5 (7.58%) Conflict Resolution
11 5 (7.58%) DevOps
11 5 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.03%) Java
2 2 (3.03%) R
3 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 22 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) CISM
4 4 (6.06%) CISSP
4 4 (6.06%) ISACA
5 3 (4.55%) CISA
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.03%) CRISC
6 2 (3.03%) Degree
7 1 (1.52%) CCNA
7 1 (1.52%) CEH
7 1 (1.52%) GIAC
7 1 (1.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (36.36%) NIST
2 9 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (10.61%) GDPR
3 7 (10.61%) PCI DSS
4 6 (9.09%) COBIT
5 3 (4.55%) NCSC
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)
7 1 (1.52%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) Nessus
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.64%) ArcSight
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%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk