Security Specialist Contracts in London

Security Specialist
England > London

The median Security Specialist daily rate in London is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 462 530
Rank change year-on-year +84 +68 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 23 33 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 49
10th Percentile £340 - £404
25th Percentile £389 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £800
90th Percentile £670 £655 £850
England median daily rate £500 £595 £530
% change year-on-year -16.01% +12.32% +2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.26
Median hourly rate - £32.69 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year - +45.13% -62.46%
75th Percentile - - £23.79
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £68.27 £59.00
% change year-on-year - +15.71% -1.67%

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 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Specialist in London.

Daily rate trend for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Specialist in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Specialist in London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
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 Security Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +50 5 £340 -58.02% 2
South London - 1 - -
Security Specialist
England

Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Security Specialist 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 Security Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (56.52%) Information Security
2 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (39.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (34.78%) Finance
5 6 (26.09%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
6 5 (21.74%) NIST
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
7 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.04%) Due Diligence
8 3 (13.04%) Validation
8 3 (13.04%) CISM
8 3 (13.04%) CISSP
8 3 (13.04%) Qualys
8 3 (13.04%) Performance Management
8 3 (13.04%) Banking
9 2 (8.70%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
9 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (8.70%) QA
9 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (8.70%) PKI
9 2 (8.70%) Learning Management System
9 2 (8.70%) Azure
9 2 (8.70%) Windows
9 2 (8.70%) Microsoft

Security Specialist 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:

Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
2 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) IPsec
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
2 1 (4.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
1 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Learning Management System
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Information Security
2 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (26.09%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
4 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (13.04%) Due Diligence
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Management
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Validation
6 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (8.70%) Agile
7 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 2 (8.70%) Data Security
7 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
7 2 (8.70%) Migration
7 2 (8.70%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (8.70%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (8.70%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Bash
1 1 (4.35%) C#
1 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) CISM
1 3 (13.04%) CISSP
2 2 (8.70%) CISA
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CEH
3 1 (4.35%) CRISC
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (21.74%) NIST
3 2 (8.70%) QA
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (4.35%) GRC
4 1 (4.35%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Qualys
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Darktrace
3 1 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.35%) Juniper
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Tripwire
3 1 (4.35%) Veracode