Cyber Essentials Contracts in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 170 197
Rank change year-on-year +49 +27 -49
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.14% 0.11% 0.094%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.79% 0.87% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £443 £574 £528
25th Percentile £506 £591 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +13.86%
75th Percentile £644 £684 £588
90th Percentile £648 £701 -
Central London median daily rate £625 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +6.38% +2.17% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

Cyber Essentials is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 381 462 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.22% 12.65% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 336 458
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £498 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +6.28%
75th Percentile £670 £728 £638
90th Percentile £758 £838 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £17.18 - £19.13
25th Percentile £18.94 £58.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £21.80 £59.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +36.78% +200.00%
75th Percentile £36.44 £60.75 £61.94
90th Percentile £58.83 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.80 £25.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -4.80% -42.53% +152.17%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DMZ
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Service Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Governance
1 1 (33.33%) ISMS
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) SIAM
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
3 1 (33.33%) ISAE 3402
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft