Cyber Security Posture Contract Job Trends in London

Cybersecurity Posture
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 363 394
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 +169
Contract jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 3 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.040% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.054% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £423 £778 £639
25th Percentile £458 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -33.59% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £620 - £774
90th Percentile £664 £823 £776
England median daily rate £429 £776 £650
% change year-on-year -44.73% +19.42% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Generic Skills
London

Cyber Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,602 5,157 6,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.94% 34.22% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,589 3,296 4,547
10th Percentile £340 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 66 106
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.86
25th Percentile £19.95 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -12.82%
75th Percentile £46.15 £55.94 £49.68
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%

Cyber Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Security Posture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Cyber Security Posture job vacancy trend in London

Cyber Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Security Posture

Cyber Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Security Posture in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Security Posture in London

Cyber Security Posture
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Technology Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) VMware