Cyber Essentials PLUS Contract Job Trends in London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 386 410
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 +150
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 16 2 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.013% 0.066%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% 0.095% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £346 - £594
25th Percentile £522 £538 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year +8.52% -8.73% -4.00%
75th Percentile £668 £613 £650
90th Percentile £688 - £658
England median daily rate £528 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +5.50% -20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +81.63%

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 2,569 2,111 2,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.08% 13.27% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,299 2,038
10th Percentile £325 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.12% -2.41%
75th Percentile £646 £672 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £541
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 46
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.80 £17.51
25th Percentile £25.15 £27.22 £21.63
Median hourly rate £31.50 £37.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +14.31% +14.04%
75th Percentile £44.75 £65.00 £50.33
90th Percentile £69.94 £95.25 £66.25
England median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -9.97% -28.40% +68.75%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Essentials PLUS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Essentials PLUS

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in London over the 6 months to 28 November 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 28 November 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
Central London - 2 £560 - 4
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Headless CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Burp Suite
1 3 (18.75%) Metasploit
1 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Electronics
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (6.25%) Military
6 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) PMO Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ADO
1 1 (6.25%) Next.js
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (31.25%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Application Security
5 3 (18.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (18.75%) Programme Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
5 3 (18.75%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CISSP
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CHECK Team Member
2 3 (18.75%) CISM
2 3 (18.75%) CREST Certified
2 3 (18.75%) OSCP
2 3 (18.75%) PMI Certification
2 3 (18.75%) PMP
2 3 (18.75%) Tigerscheme
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CEH
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CRISC
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (37.50%) GDPR
4 5 (31.25%) NCSC
4 5 (31.25%) NIST
5 3 (18.75%) PMO
5 3 (18.75%) QA
5 3 (18.75%) SLA
6 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (6.25%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Nmap
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Veracode
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Computacenter
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) SAP