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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 353 387
Rank change year-on-year -28 +34 +102
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 24 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.016% 0.050%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.76% 0.10% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 3
10th Percentile £480 £435 -
25th Percentile £500 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.68%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £657 £565 £645
England median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -21.57%

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 3,178 1,997 2,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.25% 15.71% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 1,326 1,754
10th Percentile £350 £313 £353
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £764 £788
England median daily rate £504 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.23% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 25 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.27 £17.34
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.62
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +36.61% -39.26%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £48.83
90th Percentile £69.36 £89.53 £57.75
England median hourly rate £30.58 £34.50 £20.80
% change year-on-year -11.36% +65.85% -51.05%

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 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 2026. 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 - 5 £623 - 2
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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (45.83%) Mimecast
3 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (12.50%) OCI
4 3 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
1 15 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Local Government
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 8 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Security Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) NHS
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (54.17%) Data Loss Prevention
3 11 (45.83%) Incident Response
4 8 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
5 7 (29.17%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (12.50%) ERP
7 3 (12.50%) Information Security
7 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2
7 3 (12.50%) Security Management
7 3 (12.50%) SIEM
7 3 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (8.33%) Agile
8 2 (8.33%) AI
8 2 (8.33%) Information Security Management
8 2 (8.33%) ITSM
8 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
8 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) CISSP
2 4 (16.67%) CISM
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) IISP
3 2 (8.33%) OSCP
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CEH
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.17%) CRISC
4 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (25.00%) NCSC
3 6 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (20.83%) GDPR
5 2 (8.33%) COBIT
5 2 (8.33%) NIST
5 2 (8.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (4.17%) GRC
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) AirWatch
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) CrowdStrike
2 11 (45.83%) Netskope
3 10 (41.67%) CyberArk
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle