Cybersecurity Contracts in the City of London

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 53 105
Rank change year-on-year +15 +52 -6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 104 145 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.72% 3.99% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 4.34% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 97 67
10th Percentile £431 £463 £400
25th Percentile £513 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £725 £775 £643
90th Percentile £838 £822 £761
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -1.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the City of London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the City of London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the City of London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the City of London

Cybersecurity
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 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.88%) Azure
2 12 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.69%) AWS
4 5 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (4.81%) Mimecast
4 5 (4.81%) SaaS
5 4 (3.85%) GCP
6 3 (2.88%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub
7 2 (1.92%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.69%) Firewall
1 8 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.92%) WAN
3 1 (0.96%) DMZ
3 1 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.96%) LAN
3 1 (0.96%) MPLS
3 1 (0.96%) Multicast
3 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.96%) Big Data
1 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.92%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.96%) GitLab
2 1 (0.96%) GoCD
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) RStudio
2 1 (0.96%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (41.35%) Finance
2 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 21 (20.19%) Banking
4 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.69%) International Banking
7 7 (6.73%) Advertising
8 6 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.81%) Law
9 5 (4.81%) Legal
9 5 (4.81%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.92%) Local Government
11 2 (1.92%) Marketing
12 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.96%) Police
12 1 (0.96%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (19.23%) Consultant
2 19 (18.27%) Analyst
3 17 (16.35%) Architect
4 15 (14.42%) Senior
5 13 (12.50%) Security Consultant
6 12 (11.54%) Project Manager
7 10 (9.62%) Security Analyst
7 10 (9.62%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 8 (7.69%) Security Manager
9 7 (6.73%) Security Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Information Security Consultant
10 6 (5.77%) Lead
11 5 (4.81%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 5 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 5 (4.81%) Security Project Manager
11 5 (4.81%) Senior Consultant
12 4 (3.85%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.96%) LDAP
2 1 (0.96%) OpenID
2 1 (0.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.62%) Management Information System
1 10 (9.62%) Security Posture
2 9 (8.65%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.77%) PKI
4 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.92%) CMDB
6 2 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.92%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.96%) CSOC
7 1 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.96%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.96%) IVR
7 1 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Windows
2 4 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.81%) Information Security
2 18 (17.31%) Agile
2 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
3 16 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 11 (10.58%) Data Loss Prevention
4 11 (10.58%) Data Protection
5 10 (9.62%) Incident Response
5 10 (9.62%) Security Architecture
6 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (7.69%) Change Management
7 8 (7.69%) Security Operations
8 7 (6.73%) Business Strategy
8 7 (6.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (6.73%) Project Management
8 7 (6.73%) SIEM
9 6 (5.77%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (5.77%) DevOps
9 6 (5.77%) Process Improvement
9 6 (5.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.62%) Python
2 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.88%) C#
4 3 (2.88%) Java
5 2 (1.92%) Clojure
5 2 (1.92%) Go
5 2 (1.92%) Haskell
5 2 (1.92%) Rust
6 1 (0.96%) Bash
6 1 (0.96%) C
6 1 (0.96%) C++
6 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (15.38%) CISSP
2 15 (14.42%) CISM
3 8 (7.69%) CRISC
4 5 (4.81%) CISA
5 4 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (3.85%) Degree
5 4 (3.85%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.92%) FFIEC
7 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.96%) CCSK
8 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (26.92%) NIST
2 24 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.77%) GDPR
4 6 (5.77%) GRC
5 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.88%) ISO 31000
6 3 (2.88%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.92%) NCSC
8 1 (0.96%) COBIT
8 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.96%) QA
8 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.92%) XenApp
3 1 (0.96%) Ceph
3 1 (0.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.85%) CSIRT
2 4 (3.85%) QRadar
3 3 (2.88%) Terraform
4 2 (1.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.96%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.96%) Mesos
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.96%) Packer
5 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.96%) Puppet
5 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (27.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.85%) Google
2 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.92%) Cisco
3 2 (1.92%) Citrix
3 2 (1.92%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.92%) Darktrace
3 2 (1.92%) McAfee
3 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.92%) VMware
4 1 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.96%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.96%) Genesys
4 1 (0.96%) IBM
4 1 (0.96%) Meraki
4 1 (0.96%) Netskope
4 1 (0.96%) Okta
4 1 (0.96%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
4 1 (0.96%) Zscaler