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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 81 64
Rank change year-on-year +11 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 650 419 598
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.91% 3.31% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 3.62% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 268 438
10th Percentile £408 £334 £413
25th Percentile £470 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% -2.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £746
90th Percentile £800 £766 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 1
10th Percentile £26.11 £54.97 -
25th Percentile £29.04 £68.80 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £73.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +40.19% -20.75%
75th Percentile £95.00 £83.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £99.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £73.46 £83.40
% change year-on-year -24.44% -11.92% +27.33%

All Process & 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 14,898 11,581 15,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.39% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 7,826 11,435
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 164 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.06 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.54 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +15.57% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%

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 24 March 2026.

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 24 March 2026.

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 24 March 2026. 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 -4 89 £525 -2.33% 98
South London -29 7 £339 -28.68% 6
North London +3 4 - - 8
East London -11 3 £717 +19.50% 24
West London -18 3 £423 +2.42% 23
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 17 (2.62%) Confluence
2 15 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.46%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (27.38%) Azure
2 103 (15.85%) AWS
3 73 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.92%) Entra ID
5 41 (6.31%) GCP
6 33 (5.08%) SaaS
7 28 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (4.00%) GitHub
9 20 (3.08%) Power Platform
10 18 (2.77%) Azure Sentinel
11 17 (2.62%) Azure AI
12 16 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (2.31%) Amazon Bedrock
14 14 (2.15%) PaaS
15 13 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (2.00%) OpenShift
16 12 (1.85%) Mimecast
17 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
18 10 (1.54%) IaaS
19 9 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.92%) Firewall
2 48 (7.38%) Network Security
3 10 (1.54%) DNS
3 10 (1.54%) WAN
4 9 (1.38%) VPN
5 7 (1.08%) Internet
5 7 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.08%) Wireless
6 6 (0.92%) LAN
7 5 (0.77%) BGP
7 5 (0.77%) Broadband
7 5 (0.77%) NGFW
8 4 (0.62%) DHCP
8 4 (0.62%) OSPF
9 3 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.46%) Modbus
9 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.46%) Power BI
2 11 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.54%) Big Data
4 4 (0.62%) Tableau
5 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.31%) Metadata
6 2 (0.31%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.15%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 26 (4.00%) JIRA
2 22 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.46%) Git
3 3 (0.46%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.31%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.15%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.15%) GitLab
General
1 207 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 172 (26.46%) Finance
3 81 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.31%) Banking
6 37 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.77%) Legal
8 18 (2.77%) Local Government
9 17 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.62%) Retail
10 13 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.08%) Military
14 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.77%) Law
16 4 (0.62%) Spanish Language
17 3 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 87 (13.38%) Analyst
2 79 (12.15%) Architect
3 69 (10.62%) Senior
4 67 (10.31%) Consultant
5 60 (9.23%) Security Manager
6 59 (9.08%) Security Engineer
7 53 (8.15%) Project Manager
8 47 (7.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 45 (6.92%) Security Architect
10 44 (6.77%) Security Consultant
11 39 (6.00%) Lead
12 38 (5.85%) Security Analyst
13 37 (5.69%) Security Specialist
14 35 (5.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 32 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 30 (4.62%) Business Analyst
17 29 (4.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 28 (4.31%) Cybersecurity Specialist
19 21 (3.23%) Security Project Manager
20 20 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.08%) SAML
2 19 (2.92%) OpenID
3 15 (2.31%) LDAP
3 15 (2.31%) REST
4 11 (1.69%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.92%) Kafka
6 5 (0.77%) .NET
6 5 (0.77%) NestJS
6 5 (0.77%) React
7 4 (0.62%) Node.js
7 4 (0.62%) RESTful
8 3 (0.46%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.46%) Middleware
8 3 (0.46%) OAuth
8 3 (0.46%) SOAP
8 3 (0.46%) Web Services
9 2 (0.31%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.31%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.85%) Security Posture
2 43 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 38 (5.85%) Onboarding
4 36 (5.54%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
5 21 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
6 20 (3.08%) AI Agents
6 20 (3.08%) Cyber Defence
7 18 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.62%) Operational Technology
9 16 (2.46%) PKI
10 13 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.85%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.23%) BYOD
15 6 (0.92%) CMDB
16 5 (0.77%) Private Cloud
16 5 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.46%) Windows
2 31 (4.77%) Linux
3 13 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.38%) Unix
6 8 (1.23%) VMS
7 6 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (17.69%) Information Security
2 114 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (16.77%) SIEM
4 101 (15.54%) Incident Response
5 99 (15.23%) Cloud Security
6 94 (14.46%) Agile
7 81 (12.46%) Risk Management
8 78 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 73 (11.23%) AI
11 71 (10.92%) Security Operations
12 67 (10.31%) Vulnerability Management
13 65 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
14 59 (9.08%) CI/CD
14 59 (9.08%) Identity Access Management
15 58 (8.92%) Data Protection
16 55 (8.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 55 (8.46%) Threat Intelligence
17 54 (8.31%) DevOps
18 51 (7.85%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.08%) Python
2 33 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 22 (3.38%) Kusto Query Language
4 19 (2.92%) SQL
5 17 (2.62%) Bash
6 8 (1.23%) Java
6 8 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.08%) C++
7 7 (1.08%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.77%) C#
9 4 (0.62%) Rust
10 3 (0.46%) Go
11 2 (0.31%) Haskell
11 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.15%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.15%) Bicep
12 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 194 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 161 (24.77%) SC Cleared
3 114 (17.54%) CISSP
4 79 (12.15%) CISM
5 58 (8.92%) Degree
6 32 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 25 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 22 (3.38%) CEH
10 20 (3.08%) GIAC
11 14 (2.15%) CRISC
11 14 (2.15%) PMI Certification
12 13 (2.00%) PMP
13 12 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (1.69%) CISA
14 11 (1.69%) OSCP
15 10 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
16 9 (1.38%) CCSP
17 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (20.15%) NIST
2 121 (18.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (9.69%) GDPR
4 43 (6.62%) NCSC
5 42 (6.46%) GRC
6 33 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (4.15%) PCI DSS
8 22 (3.38%) COBIT
9 18 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (1.69%) QA
11 10 (1.54%) SLA
11 10 (1.54%) SOC 2
12 9 (1.38%) PMO
13 8 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 8 (1.23%) ITGC
13 8 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.92%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 40 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.08%) Docker
4 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.15%) Terraform
3 23 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (2.62%) CASB
5 15 (2.31%) SCCM
6 11 (1.69%) Ansible
7 7 (1.08%) AirWatch
8 6 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.77%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.62%) Nessus
10 4 (0.62%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.46%) logstash
11 3 (0.46%) QRadar
11 3 (0.46%) WSUS
12 2 (0.31%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.15%) Icinga
13 1 (0.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 163 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.92%) Splunk
3 33 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.77%) CyberArk
5 22 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (2.77%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.77%) Palo Alto
7 17 (2.62%) Foundry
7 17 (2.62%) Tenable
8 16 (2.46%) Google
9 11 (1.69%) Netskope
10 10 (1.54%) Cisco
11 9 (1.38%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.38%) Zscaler
12 8 (1.23%) Qualys
13 7 (1.08%) Okta
13 7 (1.08%) VMware
14 5 (0.77%) Ariba
14 5 (0.77%) Rapid7
15 4 (0.62%) SAP