Security Hacker Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Security Hacker
Central London > City of London

The median Security Hacker daily rate in the City of London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Hacker 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.083% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £583 - -
Central London median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,265 1,748 1,956
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 93.68% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,151 1,311
10th Percentile £363 £333 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £768 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £15.87
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -27.84%
75th Percentile £34.51 £62.00 £89.06
90th Percentile £61.31 £86.43 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +7.67% -22.86%

Security Hacker
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hacker in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hacker in the City of London

Security Hacker Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 8 August 2026, Security Hacker 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 Security Hacker in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Social Engineering

Security Hacker 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 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Social Engineering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki