Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 156 192
Rank change year-on-year +34 +36 -
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 8 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.37% 0.48% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.50% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 2
10th Percentile £330 £531 -
25th Percentile £486 £591 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -8.93% -
75th Percentile £609 £731 £725
90th Percentile £638 £738 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £638 £700
% change year-on-year -13.73% -8.93% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,072 3,394 4,002
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.04% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,305 3,024
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £676
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £563
% change year-on-year -7.56% +5.78% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 53
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 City of London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) CISSP
4 4 (50.00%) CISM
4 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (50.00%) SIEM
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
4 4 (50.00%) QRadar
4 4 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) Law
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (25.00%) Adaptive Security
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
3 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Adaptive Security
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 1 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Runbook
5 1 (12.50%) Statistics
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CISM
1 4 (50.00%) CISSP
1 4 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) QRadar
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) VMware