Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Cybersecurity
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 6.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.11 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.59% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

Cybersecurity 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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 53 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 91.30% 96.36% 73.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 29
10th Percentile £350 £378 £323
25th Percentile £444 £461 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -30.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £938
90th Percentile £700 £823 £1,088
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £21.04 - -
25th Percentile £24.30 - -
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 3 - - 3
Cybersecurity
Central London

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 3 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 3 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA