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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 56 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 625 577 697
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.38% 3.78% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 4.20% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 359 466
10th Percentile £413 £413 £406
25th Percentile £488 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £745
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
England median daily rate £535 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 2
10th Percentile £30.00 £38.62 £53.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £52.44 £55.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.55 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +4.88% -5.66%
75th Percentile £67.88 £82.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.20 £74.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year -17.72% -23.79% +10.69%

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 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -21 74 £528 -8.26% 66
West London -10 7 £423 -23.18% 42
North London - 5 £650 - 14
East London -9 3 £675 +13.92% 39
South London -14 3 £525 +2.39% 25
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 19 (3.04%) Confluence
2 17 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.60%) Apache
3 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.48%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Eikon
4 1 (0.16%) Eze OMS
4 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 141 (22.56%) Azure
2 89 (14.24%) AWS
3 55 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (6.56%) GCP
5 35 (5.60%) Entra ID
6 28 (4.48%) GitHub
7 24 (3.84%) SaaS
8 18 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (2.56%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.24%) Serverless
11 8 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.12%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.12%) Azure AKS
13 6 (0.96%) PaaS
14 5 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 77 (12.32%) Firewall
2 43 (6.88%) Network Security
3 17 (2.72%) DNS
4 13 (2.08%) VPN
4 13 (2.08%) WAN
5 11 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.44%) SSL
6 9 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.28%) Internet
7 8 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (1.28%) Wireless
8 6 (0.96%) DHCP
9 5 (0.80%) HTTP
9 5 (0.80%) LAN
9 5 (0.80%) Modbus
10 4 (0.64%) IP Telephony
11 3 (0.48%) SMTP
11 3 (0.48%) SSH
11 3 (0.48%) VLAN
11 3 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.08%) Power BI
2 9 (1.44%) Big Data
3 8 (1.28%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.64%) Tableau
6 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.32%) Metadata
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.32%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.16%) GIS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.16%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 29 (4.64%) JIRA
2 9 (1.44%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.28%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.96%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.80%) GitLab
6 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.32%) Git
8 1 (0.16%) Ant
8 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.16%) Postman
8 1 (0.16%) Snyk
8 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 201 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 144 (23.04%) Finance
3 66 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 60 (9.60%) Banking
6 21 (3.36%) Legal
7 18 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.24%) Local Government
11 13 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.92%) Military
12 12 (1.92%) Retail
13 9 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.12%) Law
15 6 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 98 (15.68%) Analyst
2 88 (14.08%) Security Engineer
3 65 (10.40%) Senior
4 58 (9.28%) Architect
5 57 (9.12%) Consultant
6 52 (8.32%) Security Analyst
7 43 (6.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 41 (6.56%) Security Manager
9 40 (6.40%) Security Architect
10 38 (6.08%) Project Manager
11 34 (5.44%) Lead
12 33 (5.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 30 (4.80%) Tester
14 29 (4.64%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 28 (4.48%) Security Consultant
16 26 (4.16%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 25 (4.00%) Penetration Tester
18 23 (3.68%) Business Analyst
19 19 (3.04%) Security Specialist
20 16 (2.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.88%) Kafka
2 13 (2.08%) React
3 12 (1.92%) REST
3 12 (1.92%) SAML
4 10 (1.60%) OAuth
4 10 (1.60%) OpenID
5 9 (1.44%) .NET
6 8 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (1.28%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.96%) LangChain
8 5 (0.80%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.80%) Node.js
9 4 (0.64%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.64%) LDAP
9 4 (0.64%) NestJS
9 4 (0.64%) Regular Expression
10 3 (0.48%) Jest
10 3 (0.48%) pytest
10 3 (0.48%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.20%) Cyber Threat
1 45 (7.20%) Management Information System
1 45 (7.20%) Security Posture
2 27 (4.32%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.32%) Security Operations Centre
3 25 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
4 23 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.24%) Operational Technology
7 14 (2.24%) PKI
8 9 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.12%) IoT
11 6 (0.96%) NHS
12 5 (0.80%) CMDB
12 5 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.72%) Windows
2 45 (7.20%) Linux
3 23 (3.68%) Mac OS
4 14 (2.24%) Unix
5 11 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.96%) VMS
7 4 (0.64%) Android
7 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (19.04%) Incident Response
2 115 (18.40%) SIEM
3 101 (16.16%) Cloud Security
4 99 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 96 (15.36%) Agile
5 96 (15.36%) Information Security
6 91 (14.56%) Security Operations
7 82 (13.12%) Risk Management
8 71 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 64 (10.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 64 (10.24%) Threat Intelligence
11 63 (10.08%) Vulnerability Management
12 56 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (8.48%) AI
13 53 (8.48%) Security Architecture
14 52 (8.32%) CI/CD
14 52 (8.32%) Penetration Testing
14 52 (8.32%) Roadmaps
15 50 (8.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 69 (11.04%) Python
2 48 (7.68%) PowerShell
3 29 (4.64%) Bash
3 29 (4.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 14 (2.24%) Java
5 13 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.76%) C#
6 11 (1.76%) C++
7 8 (1.28%) SQL
8 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) C
9 1 (0.16%) Ruby
9 1 (0.16%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 189 (30.24%) Security Cleared
2 161 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 96 (15.36%) CISSP
4 56 (8.96%) Degree
5 55 (8.80%) CISM
6 33 (5.28%) DV Cleared
7 28 (4.48%) CHECK Team Member
8 26 (4.16%) CEH
9 25 (4.00%) CHECK Team Leader
9 25 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (3.20%) OSCP
11 16 (2.56%) GIAC
12 13 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.92%) PMI Certification
13 12 (1.92%) PMP
14 11 (1.76%) CISA
14 11 (1.76%) CREST Certified
15 10 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (1.60%) FFIEC
15 10 (1.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (18.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 111 (17.76%) NIST
3 48 (7.68%) GDPR
4 30 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (4.32%) GRC
6 23 (3.68%) NCSC
6 23 (3.68%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.40%) QA
8 14 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.44%) COBIT
9 9 (1.44%) EU AI Act
9 9 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 8 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.12%) Accessibility
11 7 (1.12%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.12%) SLA
11 7 (1.12%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.80%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.64%) ITGC
13 4 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.96%) Docker
4 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (4.00%) Terraform
2 19 (3.04%) SCCM
3 16 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.08%) CASB
5 10 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.12%) Ansible
6 7 (1.12%) CSIRT
6 7 (1.12%) Nessus
6 7 (1.12%) Nmap
6 7 (1.12%) SCOrch
7 6 (0.96%) QRadar
8 5 (0.80%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.48%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.48%) WSUS
11 2 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.32%) Nagios
11 2 (0.32%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 135 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.92%) Splunk
3 29 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 27 (4.32%) CrowdStrike
5 18 (2.88%) Google
5 18 (2.88%) Tenable
6 17 (2.72%) CyberArk
7 14 (2.24%) Oracle
7 14 (2.24%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.24%) SAP
8 13 (2.08%) Darktrace
9 11 (1.76%) Cisco
9 11 (1.76%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.28%) Zscaler
12 7 (1.12%) Okta
12 7 (1.12%) Qualys
13 6 (0.96%) Forcepoint
13 6 (0.96%) Rapid7
13 6 (0.96%) Veracode