Cyber Assurance Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cyber Assurance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Cyber Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Assurance 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% - -
Central London median daily rate £800 £450 -
% change year-on-year +77.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Cyber Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,613 1,963 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.33% 92.12% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,218 1,794
10th Percentile £325 £373 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £768 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.81 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £38.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.78% +23.20% -26.90%
75th Percentile £35.88 £102.25 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -34.52%

Cyber Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Assurance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Cyber Assurance job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cyber Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cyber Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cyber Assurance

Cyber Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft