Freelance CyberSecurity Consultant Skills
The most common skills for freelance CyberSecurity Consultants are CISSP, Information Security, and Governance Risk & Compliance, based on how often they appear in 235 rate submissions.
To see the individual submissions behind these numbers, browse the CyberSecurity Consultant hourly rates list, where you can filter by any skill below.
Skill frequency does not measure hiring demand or prove a skill increases rates. Skills with fewer than 5 records are omitted. Methodology
Most common skills — share of submissions
All tracked skills
| Skill | Share of submissions | Submissions | Rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISSP | 18.3% | 43 | View → |
| Information Security | 17.4% | 41 | View → |
| Governance Risk & Compliance | 12.8% | 30 | View → |
| Cloud Security | 11.5% | 27 | View → |
| Active Directory | 10.6% | 25 | View → |
| Pentesting | 10.6% | 25 | View → |
| Linux | 8.5% | 20 | View → |
| Data Privacy | 8.1% | 19 | View → |
| CISA | 7.7% | 18 | View → |
| n/a | 7.2% | 17 | View → |
| AWS | 6.4% | 15 | View → |
| Cyber | 6% | 14 | View → |
| Azure | 5.5% | 13 | View → |
| Ethical Hacking | 5.5% | 13 | View → |
| Computer Science | 5.1% | 12 | View → |
| Microsoft 365 | 5.1% | 12 | View → |
| IAM | 4.3% | 10 | View → |
| Kubernetes | 3.8% | 9 | View → |
| Splunk | 3.8% | 9 | View → |
| teaching | 3.4% | 8 | View → |