Social Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Social Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Social Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Social Engineering 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.083% - 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% - 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £700
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £583 - -
Central London median daily rate £475 - £700

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Social Engineering 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 2,109 1,759 1,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.58% 94.27% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 1,154 1,280
10th Percentile £375 £330 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

Social Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Social Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Social Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Social Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Social Engineering

Social Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Engineering in the City of London

Social Engineering
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
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hacker
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
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki