Cyber Essentials Contracts in Central London

Cyber Essentials
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 129 166
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 +29
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.96% 0.95% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £443 £444
25th Percentile £425 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £475 £644 £656
90th Percentile - £648 £694
London median daily rate £469 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -6.25% -14.89% +17.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 314 422 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.72% 17.25% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 301 356
10th Percentile £360 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £19.36 £17.96 £21.40
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.44 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%
75th Percentile £24.25 £25.92 £24.50
90th Percentile - £35.16 £24.80
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Central London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in Central London

Cyber Essentials
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 Cyber Essentials within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +7 2 £450 -28.00% 11
Cyber Essentials
London

Cyber Essentials
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 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat