Cybersecurity Consultant Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Consultant daily rate in London is £675, 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 372 435 589
Rank change year-on-year +63 +154 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Consultant 28 47 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.19% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 9
10th Percentile £450 £461 £500
25th Percentile £475 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £613 £790
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -22.47% +40.44%
75th Percentile £725 £768 £838
90th Percentile £825 £838 £845
England median daily rate £625 £625 £700
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +29.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Cybersecurity Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Consultant in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Consultant in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Consultant in London

Cybersecurity Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +41 5 £555 -27.99% 2
Cybersecurity Consultant
England

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

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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Consultant in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (42.86%) NIST
3 10 (35.71%) AWS
4 9 (32.14%) Azure
5 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 7 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 7 (25.00%) GCP
6 7 (25.00%) Security Architecture
6 7 (25.00%) Finance
7 6 (21.43%) Information Security
7 6 (21.43%) SIEM
7 6 (21.43%) PCI DSS
7 6 (21.43%) Banking
7 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
8 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
8 5 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
8 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
9 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
9 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.29%) McAfee
9 4 (14.29%) CISSP
9 4 (14.29%) Windows
9 4 (14.29%) CISM
9 4 (14.29%) Firewall
9 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared

Cybersecurity Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security
3 2 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.57%) LAN
4 1 (3.57%) Modbus
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) CircleCI
1 2 (7.14%) RStudio
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Back Office
7 1 (3.57%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) JWT
1 2 (7.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) CSOC
3 1 (3.57%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (3.57%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 7 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 6 (21.43%) Information Security
3 6 (21.43%) SIEM
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (10.71%) Application Security
6 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.71%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Business Agility
7 2 (7.14%) Database Security
7 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Java
1 2 (7.14%) R
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) CISM
2 4 (14.29%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) CISA
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (7.14%) CRISC
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) CCNA
5 1 (3.57%) CEH
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) GIAC
5 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) NIST
2 6 (21.43%) PCI DSS
3 5 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (10.71%) NCSC
4 3 (10.71%) NIST 800
5 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (7.14%) ISO 31000
6 1 (3.57%) GDPR
6 1 (3.57%) ISA99
6 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Nessus
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) McAfee
3 2 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 2 (7.14%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) ForeScout
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto