Cyber Essentials Contracts in London

Cyber Essentials
England > London

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 365 438
Rank change year-on-year +33 +73 +134
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 28 31 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.28% 1.29% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 42
10th Percentile £444 £438 £457
25th Percentile £500 £475 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £800
90th Percentile - £608 -
England median daily rate £550 £505 £575
% change year-on-year +8.91% -12.17% +15.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

Cyber Essentials 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 2,186 2,406 3,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.45% 13.67% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,675 2,568
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £700
90th Percentile £756 £800 £798
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 £31.88 £24.43 £41.77
% change year-on-year +30.50% -41.51% +60.65%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in London

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Essentials in London

Cyber Essentials
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +5 1 £575 -9.80% 33
North London - 1 £463 -
South London - 1 £450 - 2
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
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 (3.57%) CMS
1 1 (3.57%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) GitHub
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Stack
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DHCP
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
1 5 (17.86%) IP Telephony
1 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
1 5 (17.86%) VLAN
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) NAS
3 1 (3.57%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Burp Suite
1 8 (28.57%) Metasploit
1 8 (28.57%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Security Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Automation Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Test Automation Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) ADO
2 1 (3.57%) Next.js
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) iPad
1 5 (17.86%) iPhone
1 5 (17.86%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Mac OS
3 5 (17.86%) Android
3 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
3 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 9 (32.14%) Cloud Security
3 9 (32.14%) Data Protection
3 9 (32.14%) Penetration Testing
3 9 (32.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 8 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 8 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 8 (28.57%) OWASP
4 8 (28.57%) SDLC
4 8 (28.57%) Secure Coding
4 8 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 8 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
5 7 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 7 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 7 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 6 (21.43%) Information Security
7 5 (17.86%) Application Security
7 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Bash
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) ActionScript
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) CHECK Team Member
2 8 (28.57%) CREST Certified
2 8 (28.57%) OSCP
2 8 (28.57%) Tigerscheme
3 3 (10.71%) CISM
3 3 (10.71%) CISSP
4 2 (7.14%) CISA
4 2 (7.14%) CRISC
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) GIAC
5 1 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (28.57%) NCSC
3 6 (21.43%) NIST
4 4 (14.29%) GDPR
5 2 (7.14%) GRC
6 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Nmap
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.57%) SCCM
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Veracode
3 2 (7.14%) Infor
3 2 (7.14%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) EMC
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Meraki
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Progress
4 1 (3.57%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.57%) SonicWALL
4 1 (3.57%) Sophos
4 1 (3.57%) VMware