Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in London is £713 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 484 585
Rank change year-on-year +87 +101 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 4 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.041% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.043% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 6
10th Percentile £563 £479 £489
25th Percentile £619 £578 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £631 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -2.88% +5.69%
75th Percentile £806 £653 £675
90th Percentile £863 £707 £781
England median daily rate £530 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -11.67% +7.87% -9.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
South London - 1 - -
Cybersecurity Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Cybersecurity Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Qualys
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN

Cybersecurity Specialist 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Team
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Red Team
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys