SANS Contract Job Trends in Central London

SANS Institute
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 134 145
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +54
Contract jobs citing SANS 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.043% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.57% 0.17% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £455 - £664
25th Percentile £512 - £674
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £709
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.04%
75th Percentile £809 - £751
90th Percentile £924 - £765
London median daily rate £613 £525 £634
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.16% +5.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

SANS 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 527 575 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 27.21% 24.50% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 344 376
10th Percentile £321 £350 £328
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -2.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £645 £688
90th Percentile £738 £751 £789
London median daily rate £538 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -0.64% -1.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile - £23.10 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.00 £18.23
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £39.47
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -17.65% -8.73%
75th Percentile £34.48 £112.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £52.16 - £75.63
London median hourly rate £25.15 £39.25 £53.25
% change year-on-year -35.92% -26.29% +13.30%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SANS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

SANS job vacancy trend in Central London

SANS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SANS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SANS

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in Central London over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in Central London

SANS
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 SANS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 November 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 +6 3 £613 - 2
SANS
London

SANS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ISMS
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISA
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
2 1 (33.33%) CRISC
2 1 (33.33%) CSSLP
2 1 (33.33%) GSEC
2 1 (33.33%) ISACA
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable