Cyber Essentials PLUS Contracts in London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 391 477
Rank change year-on-year +37 +86 +109
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 11 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.083% 0.045% 0.035%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.51% 0.33% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £505 - £430
25th Percentile £625 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £688 £525 £598
90th Percentile - - £663
England median daily rate £600 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.89% +17.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

Cyber Essentials PLUS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,171 2,415 3,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.42% 13.71% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 1,687 2,529
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £758 £800 £799
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 60 35
10th Percentile £22.75 £12.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.15 £17.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.96% -8.46% -32.03%
75th Percentile £49.38 £43.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £55.50 £81.50
England median hourly rate £32.00 £24.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.34% -43.11% +63.46%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the London region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
South London - 1 £450 - 2
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) GitHub
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) NAS
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Burp Suite
1 8 (72.73%) Metasploit
1 8 (72.73%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) Next.js
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Cloud Security
3 8 (72.73%) Data Protection
3 8 (72.73%) DevSecOps
3 8 (72.73%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 8 (72.73%) OWASP
3 8 (72.73%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Secure Coding
3 8 (72.73%) Security Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Static Application Security Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 7 (63.64%) Ethical Hacking
4 7 (63.64%) SDLC
4 7 (63.64%) Threat Modelling
4 7 (63.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (45.45%) Application Security
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Bash
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) CHECK Team Member
1 8 (72.73%) CREST Certified
1 8 (72.73%) OSCP
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Tigerscheme
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CISA
3 1 (9.09%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) CRISC
3 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (72.73%) NCSC
3 2 (18.18%) GDPR
3 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (18.18%) NIST
4 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (9.09%) GRC
4 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Nmap
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Veracode
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) EMC
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) SonicWALL
3 1 (9.09%) VMware