Cyber Threat Contracts in Central London

Cyber Threats
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 116 162
Rank change year-on-year -7 +46 +28
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 4 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.53% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 1.74% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 5
10th Percentile £390 £419 £491
25th Percentile £469 £544 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £613
90th Percentile - £875 £650
London median daily rate £525 £625 £623
% change year-on-year -16.00% +0.40% +5.96%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 678 747 1,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.88% 30.65% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 522 953
10th Percentile £361 £264 £314
25th Percentile £474 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £696 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 17
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.84%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% -25.71% -21.35%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in Central London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in Central London

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in Central London

Cyber Threat
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 Threat within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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 -5 4 £575 -11.54% 6
Cyber Threat
London

Cyber Threat
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 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CSOC
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (25.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CEH
1 1 (25.00%) GIAC
1 1 (25.00%) GPEN
1 1 (25.00%) GXPN
1 1 (25.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) QA