Cybersecurity Contracts in East London

Cybersecurity
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 11 26 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 10.58% 11.21% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.34% 11.98% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 11
10th Percentile £545 £563 -
25th Percentile £589 £587 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -13.33% +12.78%
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile £705 - -
London median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 217 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.27% 93.53% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 188 130
10th Percentile £282 £361 £199
25th Percentile £415 £439 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £527
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.54% -8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £753
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £14.66 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £36.48 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in East London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in East London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in East London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in East London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in East London

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Tower Hamlets -5 7 £630 -1.56% 2
Docklands, London +6 1 £750 +15.38%
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Head of Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Head of Security
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
2 1 (9.09%) Rust Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Rust Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
2 4 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
3 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) SIEM
3 3 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Cyber Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Go
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Rust
1 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) GRC
3 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) logstash
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
1 1 (9.09%) McAfee
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft