Cyber Threat Contracts in the City of London

Cyber Threats
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 114 155
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 +35
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 3 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.60% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 1.91% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile £368 £419 £499
25th Percentile £413 £544 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +15.56% +7.66%
75th Percentile £550 £775 £609
90th Percentile £558 £875 £644
Central London median daily rate £525 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -19.23% +15.56% +7.66%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 596 681 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.33% 31.45% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 460 842
10th Percentile £352 £263 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £820 £838 £860
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £616
% change year-on-year - -6.66% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -38.53% -19.54%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £87.16
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.76 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.70% -34.29% -24.73%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the City of London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the City of London

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the City of London

Cyber Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
3 1 (33.33%) ISMS
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) GPEN
1 1 (33.33%) GXPN
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) VMware