Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 363 409
Rank change year-on-year +35 +46 +133
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 16 27 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.17% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 50
10th Percentile £500 £378 £474
25th Percentile £525 £420 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £786
90th Percentile £698 £650 £800
England median daily rate £569 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.21% - +9.09%

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 11,461 16,362 24,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.58% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,773 11,821 17,640
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 326 276
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.74
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.22 £22.60
Median hourly rate £31.67 £27.81 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -22.75% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.94 £46.77 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.08 £66.75 £82.38
England median hourly rate £29.57 £37.63 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -16.39% +88.21%

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 June 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 June 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 +2 1 - - 6
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 June 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 16 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 14 (87.50%) AWS
3 13 (81.25%) Penetration Testing
3 13 (81.25%) Cloud Security
4 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
4 12 (75.00%) Python
5 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
5 11 (68.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 11 (68.75%) OSCP
5 11 (68.75%) CREST Certified
5 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
5 11 (68.75%) DevSecOps
6 10 (62.50%) Threat Modelling
6 10 (62.50%) GCP
6 10 (62.50%) Bash
6 10 (62.50%) Security Testing
7 9 (56.25%) Nmap
7 9 (56.25%) Metasploit
7 9 (56.25%) GitHub
7 9 (56.25%) Secure Coding
7 9 (56.25%) Burp Suite
7 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (56.25%) NCSC
7 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
7 9 (56.25%) Veracode
7 9 (56.25%) Static Application Security Testing
7 9 (56.25%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
7 9 (56.25%) Vulnerability Remediation

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 14 (87.50%) AWS
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) GCP
3 9 (56.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Burp Suite
1 9 (56.25%) Metasploit
2 8 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Military
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (81.25%) Cloud Security
2 13 (81.25%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (68.75%) DevSecOps
3 11 (68.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 10 (62.50%) Security Testing
4 10 (62.50%) Threat Modelling
5 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
5 9 (56.25%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (56.25%) Secure Coding
5 9 (56.25%) Static Application Security Testing
5 9 (56.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 8 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 8 (50.00%) OWASP
7 7 (43.75%) Application Security
8 6 (37.50%) SDLC
9 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
10 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
10 3 (18.75%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) C++
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Rust
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) CREST Certified
2 11 (68.75%) OSCP
2 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (50.00%) Tigerscheme
4 6 (37.50%) CHECK Team Member
5 4 (25.00%) CISSP
6 2 (12.50%) CEH
6 2 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (12.50%) Degree
7 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) NCSC
2 5 (31.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (31.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (6.25%) NIST
4 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Veracode
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) Qualys
3 1 (6.25%) Tenable