Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 366 423
Rank change year-on-year +20 +57 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 7 25 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 47
10th Percentile £340 £410 £498
25th Percentile £400 £494 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £650 £779
90th Percentile £619 £670 £810
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East London - 1 £665 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) CISSP
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) Python
5 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (28.57%) Degree
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) NCSC
5 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Information Security
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Security Patching
4 2 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (14.29%) Application Security
5 1 (14.29%) Fuzz Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Rust
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) CEH
4 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
4 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable