Cybersecurity Contracts in Central London

Cybersecurity
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 51 102
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 +1
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 113 147 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.68% 3.82% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 4.18% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 100 73
10th Percentile £403 £460 £400
25th Percentile £511 £536 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £650
90th Percentile £833 £821 £762
London median daily rate £600 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +7.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,189 3,514 4,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.64% 91.39% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 2,377 3,194
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 41
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.75
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
City of London +18 107 £625 -3.85% 35
West End of London +9 3 £252 -19.30% 3
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.66%) Azure
2 13 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.08%) AWS
4 5 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (4.42%) Mimecast
4 5 (4.42%) SaaS
5 4 (3.54%) GCP
6 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.77%) GitHub
7 2 (1.77%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) Network Security
2 8 (7.08%) Firewall
3 4 (3.54%) WAN
4 3 (2.65%) LAN
4 3 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.77%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.77%) Softphone
5 2 (1.77%) VoIP
5 2 (1.77%) Wireless
6 1 (0.88%) 5G
6 1 (0.88%) Broadband
6 1 (0.88%) DMZ
6 1 (0.88%) Internet
6 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.88%) MPLS
6 1 (0.88%) Multicast
6 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.88%) Big Data
1 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.88%) GoCD
2 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.88%) RStudio
2 1 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 45 (39.82%) Finance
2 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
3 21 (18.58%) Banking
4 16 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (11.50%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.08%) International Banking
7 7 (6.19%) Advertising
7 7 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.42%) Law
8 5 (4.42%) Legal
9 4 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.77%) Local Government
11 2 (1.77%) Marketing
12 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.88%) Police
12 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (17.70%) Consultant
2 19 (16.81%) Analyst
3 18 (15.93%) Architect
4 16 (14.16%) Senior
5 13 (11.50%) Project Manager
5 13 (11.50%) Security Consultant
6 10 (8.85%) Security Analyst
6 10 (8.85%) Security Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Security Manager
7 8 (7.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 8 (7.08%) Security Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Information Security Consultant
8 6 (5.31%) Lead
9 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 5 (4.42%) Information Security Officer
9 5 (4.42%) Security Officer
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.77%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.88%) LDAP
2 1 (0.88%) OpenID
2 1 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Management Information System
1 11 (9.73%) Security Posture
2 9 (7.96%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.31%) PKI
5 3 (2.65%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.77%) CMDB
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.88%) CSOC
7 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.88%) IVR
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Windows
2 4 (3.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.97%) Information Security
2 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (15.93%) Agile
3 18 (15.93%) Risk Management
4 16 (14.16%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (9.73%) Data Loss Prevention
5 11 (9.73%) Data Protection
5 11 (9.73%) Incident Response
5 11 (9.73%) Security Architecture
6 10 (8.85%) Security Operations
7 9 (7.96%) Cloud Security
7 9 (7.96%) Migration
7 9 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.08%) Business Strategy
8 8 (7.08%) Change Management
8 8 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.08%) IT Strategy
8 8 (7.08%) Project Management
8 8 (7.08%) SIEM
9 7 (6.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.85%) Python
2 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.65%) C#
4 3 (2.65%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) Clojure
5 2 (1.77%) Go
5 2 (1.77%) Haskell
5 2 (1.77%) Rust
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
6 1 (0.88%) C
6 1 (0.88%) C++
6 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) CISSP
2 18 (15.93%) CISM
3 8 (7.08%) CRISC
3 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) CISA
5 4 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (3.54%) Degree
5 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.77%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.88%) CCSK
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) GIAC
8 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (27.43%) NIST
2 24 (21.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.96%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.19%) GDPR
5 6 (5.31%) GRC
6 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (2.65%) ISO 31000
7 3 (2.65%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.77%) NCSC
9 1 (0.88%) COBIT
9 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.88%) QA
9 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.77%) Docker
3 2 (1.77%) XenApp
4 1 (0.88%) Ceph
4 1 (0.88%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.54%) CSIRT
2 4 (3.54%) QRadar
3 3 (2.65%) Terraform
4 2 (1.77%) Ansible
4 2 (1.77%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.88%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.88%) Mesos
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.88%) Packer
5 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.88%) Puppet
5 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.54%) Google
2 4 (3.54%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.65%) Citrix
3 3 (2.65%) VMware
4 2 (1.77%) Cisco
4 2 (1.77%) CyberArk
4 2 (1.77%) Darktrace
4 2 (1.77%) McAfee
4 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.88%) F5
5 1 (0.88%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.88%) IBM
5 1 (0.88%) Meraki
5 1 (0.88%) Netskope
5 1 (0.88%) Okta
5 1 (0.88%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.88%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.88%) Zscaler