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 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 36 54 109
Rank change year-on-year +18 +55 -5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 107 145 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.93% 4.00% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 4.37% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 98 65
10th Percentile £438 £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 £731 £775 £640
90th Percentile £838 £822 £762
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -2.22%

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 1,967 3,321 3,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 91.59% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 2,237 2,950
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £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 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
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 4 May 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 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.10%) Azure
2 12 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.48%) AWS
4 5 (4.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (4.67%) Mimecast
4 5 (4.67%) SaaS
5 4 (3.74%) GCP
6 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.87%) GitHub
7 2 (1.87%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) Firewall
1 8 (7.48%) Network Security
2 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.87%) WAN
3 1 (0.93%) DMZ
3 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.93%) LAN
3 1 (0.93%) MPLS
3 1 (0.93%) Multicast
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.93%) Big Data
1 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.93%) GitLab
2 1 (0.93%) GoCD
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) RStudio
2 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (41.12%) Finance
2 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.63%) Banking
4 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.15%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.48%) International Banking
7 7 (6.54%) Advertising
7 7 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.67%) Law
8 5 (4.67%) Legal
8 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.87%) Local Government
10 2 (1.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Police
11 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (18.69%) Consultant
2 19 (17.76%) Analyst
3 18 (16.82%) Architect
4 15 (14.02%) Senior
5 13 (12.15%) Security Consultant
6 12 (11.21%) Project Manager
7 10 (9.35%) Security Analyst
7 10 (9.35%) Security Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) Security Manager
8 8 (7.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 8 (7.48%) Security Architect
9 6 (5.61%) Information Security Consultant
9 6 (5.61%) Lead
10 5 (4.67%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 5 (4.67%) Security Project Manager
10 5 (4.67%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (3.74%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.87%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.93%) LDAP
2 1 (0.93%) OpenID
2 1 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Management Information System
1 10 (9.35%) Security Posture
2 9 (8.41%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.61%) PKI
5 3 (2.80%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.87%) CMDB
6 2 (1.87%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.87%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) IVR
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) Information Security
2 18 (16.82%) Agile
2 18 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (15.89%) Risk Management
4 16 (14.95%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (10.28%) Data Loss Prevention
5 11 (10.28%) Data Protection
5 11 (10.28%) Security Architecture
6 10 (9.35%) Incident Response
7 9 (8.41%) Security Operations
7 9 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.48%) Change Management
8 8 (7.48%) Cloud Security
9 7 (6.54%) Business Strategy
9 7 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (6.54%) IT Strategy
9 7 (6.54%) Project Management
9 7 (6.54%) SIEM
10 6 (5.61%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.35%) Python
2 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.80%) C#
4 3 (2.80%) Java
5 2 (1.87%) Clojure
5 2 (1.87%) Go
5 2 (1.87%) Haskell
5 2 (1.87%) Rust
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) C
6 1 (0.93%) C++
6 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) CISSP
2 18 (16.82%) CISM
3 8 (7.48%) CRISC
4 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.67%) CISA
6 4 (3.74%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.74%) Degree
6 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.87%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.93%) CCSK
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (28.04%) NIST
2 24 (22.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.48%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.61%) GDPR
4 6 (5.61%) GRC
5 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.80%) ISO 31000
6 3 (2.80%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.87%) NCSC
8 1 (0.93%) COBIT
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.93%) QA
8 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.87%) XenApp
3 1 (0.93%) Ceph
3 1 (0.93%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.74%) CSIRT
2 4 (3.74%) QRadar
3 3 (2.80%) Terraform
4 2 (1.87%) Ansible
4 2 (1.87%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.93%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.93%) Mesos
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.93%) Packer
5 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.93%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (27.10%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.74%) Google
2 4 (3.74%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.87%) Cisco
3 2 (1.87%) Citrix
3 2 (1.87%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.87%) Darktrace
3 2 (1.87%) McAfee
3 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.87%) VMware
4 1 (0.93%) F5
4 1 (0.93%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.93%) Genesys
4 1 (0.93%) IBM
4 1 (0.93%) Meraki
4 1 (0.93%) Netskope
4 1 (0.93%) Okta
4 1 (0.93%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.93%) Rapid7
4 1 (0.93%) Zscaler