Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 57 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 656 576 732
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.66% 3.69% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.04% 4.14% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 358 499
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £493 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
75th Percentile £688 £700 £739
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
England median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.09 £53.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £41.00 £55.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% -8.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £67.88 £77.33 £70.63
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.32 £74.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £72.76
% change year-on-year -15.81% -25.79% +11.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,010 13,919 17,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 89.24% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 8,971 12,826
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 166 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.38 £18.70
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +3.21% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.56 £62.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.38 £76.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +28.57%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 19 November 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 -22 74 £533 -5.24% 263
West London -6 8 £423 -39.64% 57
South London -7 6 £525 -12.54% 26
North London +1 3 £650 +71.05% 16
East London -7 3 £675 +15.38% 38
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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 21 (3.20%) Confluence
2 20 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.46%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Eikon
3 1 (0.15%) Eze OMS
3 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 159 (24.24%) Azure
2 106 (16.16%) AWS
3 63 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (7.77%) GCP
5 38 (5.79%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.49%) SaaS
7 32 (4.88%) GitHub
8 21 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (2.44%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.44%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.98%) Serverless
12 11 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.07%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.07%) PaaS
16 6 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.59%) Firewall
2 44 (6.71%) Network Security
3 20 (3.05%) DNS
4 15 (2.29%) WAN
5 14 (2.13%) VPN
6 12 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.68%) SSL
7 11 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (1.22%) DHCP
9 8 (1.22%) Internet
9 8 (1.22%) LAN
9 8 (1.22%) Wireless
10 6 (0.91%) HTTP
10 6 (0.91%) IP Telephony
11 5 (0.76%) Modbus
11 5 (0.76%) VLAN
12 3 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.46%) SSH
12 3 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.13%) Power BI
2 9 (1.37%) Big Data
3 7 (1.07%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (0.76%) Tableau
5 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.30%) GIS
7 2 (0.30%) Metadata
7 2 (0.30%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.15%) Looker
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (4.57%) JIRA
2 18 (2.74%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.74%) Metasploit
3 14 (2.13%) SonarQube
4 7 (1.07%) GitLab
5 5 (0.76%) Git
6 4 (0.61%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.15%) Ant
8 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.15%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.15%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) Snyk
8 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 213 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 160 (24.39%) Finance
3 82 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (10.21%) Banking
6 26 (3.96%) Legal
7 19 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.74%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.59%) Investment Banking
10 16 (2.44%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (2.13%) Local Government
13 13 (1.98%) Military
14 11 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.52%) Law
16 8 (1.22%) Retail
17 7 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 108 (16.46%) Analyst
2 98 (14.94%) Security Engineer
3 71 (10.82%) Architect
4 64 (9.76%) Senior
5 56 (8.54%) Security Analyst
6 54 (8.23%) Security Architect
7 52 (7.93%) Consultant
8 50 (7.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 41 (6.25%) Project Manager
10 37 (5.64%) Security Manager
11 35 (5.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 33 (5.03%) Lead
13 31 (4.73%) Tester
14 28 (4.27%) Security Consultant
15 26 (3.96%) Business Analyst
15 26 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 26 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 26 (3.96%) Penetration Tester
16 20 (3.05%) Security Specialist
17 17 (2.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.74%) Kafka
2 13 (1.98%) React
3 11 (1.68%) OAuth
3 11 (1.68%) REST
3 11 (1.68%) SAML
4 9 (1.37%) .NET
4 9 (1.37%) OpenID
4 9 (1.37%) SailPoint
5 8 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (0.76%) GraphQL
6 5 (0.76%) LangChain
7 4 (0.61%) FastAPI
7 4 (0.61%) LDAP
7 4 (0.61%) NestJS
7 4 (0.61%) Node.js
7 4 (0.61%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.61%) Regular Expression
7 4 (0.61%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.46%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.77%) Management Information System
2 47 (7.16%) Security Posture
3 46 (7.01%) Cyber Threat
4 36 (5.49%) Onboarding
5 35 (5.34%) Security Operations Centre
6 23 (3.51%) Cyber Defence
7 21 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.74%) Cloud Native
10 17 (2.59%) PKI
10 17 (2.59%) Product Ownership
11 13 (1.98%) CSOC
12 12 (1.83%) Operational Technology
13 9 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.07%) IoT
16 6 (0.91%) Algorithms
16 6 (0.91%) CMDB
16 6 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 77 (11.74%) Windows
2 46 (7.01%) Linux
3 25 (3.81%) Mac OS
4 15 (2.29%) Unix
4 15 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.91%) Android
7 5 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.46%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.46%) VMS
10 2 (0.30%) CentOS
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (19.51%) SIEM
2 124 (18.90%) Incident Response
3 114 (17.38%) Cloud Security
4 102 (15.55%) Agile
5 101 (15.40%) Information Security
5 101 (15.40%) Security Operations
6 96 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 84 (12.80%) Risk Management
8 78 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (10.21%) Penetration Testing
9 67 (10.21%) Vulnerability Management
10 66 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 62 (9.45%) Security Architecture
12 61 (9.30%) Threat Intelligence
13 60 (9.15%) CI/CD
13 60 (9.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 55 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (8.38%) Identity Access Management
15 54 (8.23%) AI
16 51 (7.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 76 (11.59%) Python
2 48 (7.32%) PowerShell
3 38 (5.79%) Bash
4 26 (3.96%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (2.13%) Java
6 12 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.83%) SQL
7 11 (1.68%) C#
7 11 (1.68%) C++
8 4 (0.61%) Bicep
9 2 (0.30%) Perl
9 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.15%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.15%) C
10 1 (0.15%) LookML
10 1 (0.15%) PromQL
10 1 (0.15%) R
10 1 (0.15%) Ruby
10 1 (0.15%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 192 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 159 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 103 (15.70%) CISSP
4 58 (8.84%) CISM
4 58 (8.84%) Degree
5 34 (5.18%) CHECK Team Member
6 33 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 31 (4.73%) OSCP
8 26 (3.96%) CEH
9 25 (3.81%) CHECK Team Leader
10 24 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 22 (3.35%) CREST Certified
12 17 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (2.44%) GIAC
14 15 (2.29%) PMI Certification
14 15 (2.29%) PMP
15 13 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (1.98%) Tigerscheme
16 12 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (1.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (18.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 113 (17.23%) NIST
3 52 (7.93%) GDPR
4 35 (5.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 31 (4.73%) NCSC
6 26 (3.96%) GRC
7 22 (3.35%) PCI DSS
8 16 (2.44%) QA
9 14 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (1.37%) COBIT
11 9 (1.37%) EU AI Act
11 9 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (1.37%) SLA
12 7 (1.07%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.91%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.91%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.76%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.61%) ITGC
16 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 56 (8.54%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.91%) Docker
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 22 (3.35%) Terraform
2 18 (2.74%) SCCM
3 16 (2.44%) Nmap
4 14 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (1.83%) Kubernetes
6 11 (1.68%) CASB
7 9 (1.37%) QRadar
8 8 (1.22%) CSIRT
9 7 (1.07%) Ansible
9 7 (1.07%) Nessus
10 6 (0.91%) SCOrch
11 5 (0.76%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.61%) WSUS
13 3 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 3 (0.46%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.30%) Grafana
14 2 (0.30%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 146 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 70 (10.67%) Splunk
3 30 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.27%) CrowdStrike
5 19 (2.90%) CyberArk
6 18 (2.74%) Tenable
7 17 (2.59%) Oracle
8 16 (2.44%) Google
8 16 (2.44%) SAP
9 15 (2.29%) Veracode
10 13 (1.98%) Darktrace
10 13 (1.98%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.83%) Cisco
12 11 (1.68%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.52%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.22%) VMware
15 7 (1.07%) Okta
15 7 (1.07%) Qualys
15 7 (1.07%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.91%) Forcepoint