Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 430 565
Rank change year-on-year +66 +135 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 25 70 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.26% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.27% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 25
10th Percentile £410 £498 £291
25th Percentile £494 £563 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +0.96%
75th Percentile £650 £779 £625
90th Percentile £670 £810 £725
England median daily rate £600 £600 £525
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Central London +34 8 £550 -18.52% 5
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) SIEM
2 9 (36.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) Security Posture
4 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) CISSP
5 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (20.00%) CISM
6 5 (20.00%) NIST
6 5 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (20.00%) Threat Detection
7 4 (16.00%) QRadar
7 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (16.00%) Threat Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.00%) Log Aggregation
7 4 (16.00%) Functional Safety
7 4 (16.00%) Safety Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Degree
8 3 (12.00%) Finance
8 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (12.00%) SailPoint

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) FTP
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Law
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Insider Threat
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (36.00%) SIEM
3 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Threat Detection
5 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Log Aggregation
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (16.00%) Safety Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.00%) Security Operations
7 2 (8.00%) Adaptive Security
7 2 (8.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 2 (8.00%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (8.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.00%) Perl
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) CISSP
2 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) CISM
3 5 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (8.00%) CEH
5 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) CHFI
6 1 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.00%) EC-Council LPT
6 1 (4.00%) ECSA
6 1 (4.00%) EnCE
6 1 (4.00%) GAWN
6 1 (4.00%) GCFE
6 1 (4.00%) GIAC
6 1 (4.00%) GPPA
6 1 (4.00%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Functional Safety
1 4 (16.00%) QRadar
2 2 (8.00%) Nessus
3 1 (4.00%) CASB
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (4.00%) CSIRT
3 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.00%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) VMware