SANS Contracts in the City of London

SANS Institute
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 124 162
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +38
Contract jobs citing SANS 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.16% 0.096% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.66% 0.41% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £455 - £546
25th Percentile £512 - £636
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £645 £800
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% -19.38% -
75th Percentile £809 - £813
90th Percentile £924 - -
Central London median daily rate £613 £645 £800
% change year-on-year -5.04% -19.38% +23.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 458 489 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.49% 23.59% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 311 392
10th Percentile £333 £400 £341
25th Percentile £457 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% +2.68%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +33.33% -61.60%
75th Percentile £64.66 £27.00 £50.88
90th Percentile £79.34 - £70.60
Central London median hourly rate £31.78 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% +50.00% -61.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in the City of London

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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:

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