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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 370 439
Rank change year-on-year +12 +69 +139
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 15 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.043% 0.064%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.64% 0.31% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 9
10th Percentile £526 - £465
25th Percentile £592 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £688 £547 £638
90th Percentile - £586 £650
England median daily rate £555 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +11.00% -6.98% +7.50%

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 2,332 2,232 3,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.32% 13.69% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 1,437 2,312
10th Percentile £325 £333 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 42 35
10th Percentile - £18.13 £16.71
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.81 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +14.65% +13.20%
75th Percentile £42.75 £49.69 £47.88
90th Percentile £54.35 £71.88 £63.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £31.62 £37.50
% change year-on-year +2.78% -15.68% +66.67%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 - 1 £560 - 1
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 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Headless CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 8 (53.33%) GitHub
4 7 (46.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Burp Suite
1 8 (53.33%) Metasploit
1 8 (53.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Military
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) PMO Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ADO
1 1 (6.67%) Next.js
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (60.00%) Data Protection
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (53.33%) DevSecOps
2 8 (53.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 8 (53.33%) OWASP
2 8 (53.33%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Secure Coding
2 8 (53.33%) Security Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 7 (46.67%) Ethical Hacking
3 7 (46.67%) SDLC
3 7 (46.67%) Threat Modelling
3 7 (46.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 5 (33.33%) Application Security
5 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Bash
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) CHECK Team Member
1 8 (53.33%) CREST Certified
1 8 (53.33%) OSCP
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Tigerscheme
2 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (20.00%) PMP
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CISA
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) CRISC
4 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (60.00%) NCSC
3 3 (20.00%) PMO
3 3 (20.00%) QA
3 3 (20.00%) SLA
4 2 (13.33%) GDPR
4 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (13.33%) NIST
5 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (6.67%) GRC
5 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Nmap
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Veracode
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Google