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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 384 408
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +163
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 19 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.013% 0.059%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.76% 0.097% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 7
10th Percentile £521 - £588
25th Percentile £611 £538 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £688 £613 £644
90th Percentile - - £650
England median daily rate £533 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +15.14% -26.00% +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 £32.74 - £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 2,487 2,053 2,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.88% 13.07% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 1,263 2,104
10th Percentile £325 £316 £363
25th Percentile £413 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.00% -1.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £794 £795
England median daily rate £500 £507 £540
% change year-on-year -1.38% -6.11% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 25 45
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.40 £17.38
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +21.97%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £67.00 £91.78 £66.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.06 £39.96
% change year-on-year -6.43% -19.77% +53.69%

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 7 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 7 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 - 1 £560 - 17
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 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) Headless CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) GitHub
4 7 (36.84%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Burp Suite
1 8 (42.11%) Metasploit
1 8 (42.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Electronics
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) PMO Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Presales Solution Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) ADO
1 1 (5.26%) Next.js
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Cloud Security
2 11 (57.89%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) Data Protection
3 9 (47.37%) DevSecOps
3 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (47.37%) Threat Modelling
4 8 (42.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 8 (42.11%) OWASP
4 8 (42.11%) Penetration Testing
4 8 (42.11%) Secure Coding
4 8 (42.11%) Security Testing
4 8 (42.11%) Static Application Security Testing
4 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (36.84%) Ethical Hacking
5 7 (36.84%) SDLC
5 7 (36.84%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 6 (31.58%) Application Security
7 4 (21.05%) Agile
7 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Bash
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) CHECK Team Member
2 8 (42.11%) CREST Certified
2 8 (42.11%) OSCP
2 8 (42.11%) Tigerscheme
3 3 (15.79%) CISSP
3 3 (15.79%) PMI Certification
3 3 (15.79%) PMP
4 2 (10.53%) CISM
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (47.37%) NCSC
3 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (26.32%) GDPR
4 5 (26.32%) NIST
5 3 (15.79%) PMO
5 3 (15.79%) QA
5 3 (15.79%) SLA
6 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Nmap
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Veracode
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Computacenter
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) SAP