Cybersecurity Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £740, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 125 137
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.049% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.052% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £720 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +18.18% -31.25%
75th Percentile £760 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £740 £650 £550
% change year-on-year +13.85% +18.18% -31.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,701 1,915 2,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 92.92% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,176 1,730
10th Percentile £326 £354 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cybersecurity Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (66.67%) Modbus
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Rockwell
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Modbus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Insider Threat
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (66.67%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Rockwell
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk