CompTIA Security+ Contract Job Trends in Central London

CompTIA Security+
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 162
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% - 0.031%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £581 - -
25th Percentile £589 - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - £175
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.58%
75th Percentile £674 - £188
90th Percentile £684 - -
London median daily rate £475 £583 £500
% change year-on-year -18.45% +16.50% -16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

CompTIA Security+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 480 531 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.04% 22.98% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 330 405
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £444 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £820
London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile £25.04 £23.10 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 - £17.31
Median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.70% +50.00% -58.14%
75th Percentile £57.96 £112.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £65.57 - £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -25.48% -35.71% +20.70%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing CompTIA Security+ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for CompTIA Security+ in Central London

CompTIA Security+
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CompTIA Security+.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CompTIA Security+ within the Central London region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. 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
City of London - 2 £630 - 5
CompTIA Security+
London

CompTIA Security+
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) STIX
1 1 (50.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (50.00%) Red Team
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) ISSMP
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft