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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 66 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 616 490 643
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.22% 3.51% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 3.88% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 300 445
10th Percentile £408 £400 £413
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £613
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -4.49% -2.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £743
90th Percentile £800 £788 £808
England median daily rate £536 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.87% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 2
10th Percentile £26.11 £38.62 £53.00
25th Percentile £31.18 £56.20 £55.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £73.60 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.14% +17.76% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.20 £74.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £47.44 £72.50
% change year-on-year -4.17% -34.57% +11.54%

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 13,320 12,644 16,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.20% 90.45% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,835 8,066 11,489
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% -7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 292
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.60 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +14.29% -14.34%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.15 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -27.10% -9.21% +8.57%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -13 78 £525 -8.70% 87
North London +10 5 - - 9
West London -17 5 £423 -3.43% 43
South London -20 3 £525 +10.53% 31
East London -10 1 £575 -8.73% 42
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 (3.08%) Confluence
2 11 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.95%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.49%) Trello
6 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 127 (20.62%) Azure
2 79 (12.82%) AWS
3 54 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 30 (4.87%) GCP
5 30 (4.87%) GitHub
6 25 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
9 18 (2.92%) SaaS
10 17 (2.76%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.79%) Serverless
12 9 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.30%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (1.14%) Mimecast
15 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.97%) PaaS
16 5 (0.81%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.31%) Firewall
2 47 (7.63%) Network Security
3 13 (2.11%) WAN
4 11 (1.79%) DNS
4 11 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.62%) VPN
6 8 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.30%) Wireless
7 7 (1.14%) LAN
7 7 (1.14%) SSL
7 7 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.97%) Internet
8 6 (0.97%) Modbus
9 5 (0.81%) BGP
9 5 (0.81%) OSPF
10 4 (0.65%) HTTP
11 3 (0.49%) Broadband
11 3 (0.49%) NGFW
11 3 (0.49%) SSH
12 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.27%) Power BI
2 8 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 6 (0.97%) Big Data
4 5 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.65%) 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%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.16%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (4.22%) JIRA
2 17 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.81%) GitLab
4 4 (0.65%) Git
5 3 (0.49%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Ant
7 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.16%) Snyk
7 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 187 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 153 (24.84%) Finance
3 65 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 57 (9.25%) Banking
6 23 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (3.25%) Investment Banking
8 18 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.76%) Legal
9 17 (2.76%) Local Government
9 17 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.44%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.95%) Retail
13 10 (1.62%) Military
13 10 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Law
14 6 (0.97%) Spanish Language
15 5 (0.81%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 89 (14.45%) Analyst
2 75 (12.18%) Security Engineer
3 58 (9.42%) Senior
4 57 (9.25%) Architect
5 56 (9.09%) Consultant
6 47 (7.63%) Security Manager
7 43 (6.98%) Project Manager
8 41 (6.66%) Security Analyst
9 38 (6.17%) Security Architect
10 37 (6.01%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 32 (5.19%) Security Consultant
12 31 (5.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 30 (4.87%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 29 (4.71%) Tester
15 28 (4.55%) Lead
15 28 (4.55%) Security Specialist
16 24 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 24 (3.90%) Penetration Tester
17 23 (3.73%) Business Analyst
18 18 (2.92%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.92%) SAML
2 17 (2.76%) OpenID
3 15 (2.44%) REST
4 13 (2.11%) Kafka
5 11 (1.79%) LDAP
6 10 (1.62%) React
7 9 (1.46%) SailPoint
8 8 (1.30%) .NET
9 7 (1.14%) OAuth
10 5 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (0.65%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.65%) LangChain
11 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.65%) NestJS
11 4 (0.65%) Next.js
11 4 (0.65%) Node.js
12 2 (0.32%) JSON
12 2 (0.32%) Regular Expression
12 2 (0.32%) RESTful
12 2 (0.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.95%) Cyber Threat
2 47 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 44 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 33 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 33 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (3.90%) Cyber Defence
7 18 (2.92%) Operational Technology
8 17 (2.76%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.79%) PKI
11 10 (1.62%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.14%) NHS
12 7 (1.14%) SCADA
13 6 (0.97%) IoT
13 6 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 64 (10.39%) Windows
2 47 (7.63%) Linux
3 15 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 14 (2.27%) Unix
5 11 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.46%) VMS
7 7 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.64%) Incident Response
2 112 (18.18%) SIEM
3 104 (16.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 100 (16.23%) Information Security
5 94 (15.26%) Cloud Security
6 90 (14.61%) Agile
6 90 (14.61%) Risk Management
7 86 (13.96%) Security Operations
8 74 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 66 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (10.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 64 (10.39%) Threat Intelligence
11 62 (10.06%) CI/CD
12 60 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (9.25%) DevOps
13 57 (9.25%) Identity Access Management
13 57 (9.25%) Vulnerability Management
14 53 (8.60%) Security Architecture
15 49 (7.95%) AI
16 46 (7.47%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 57 (9.25%) Python
2 43 (6.98%) PowerShell
3 30 (4.87%) Kusto Query Language
4 18 (2.92%) Bash
5 12 (1.95%) Java
5 12 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.14%) C#
6 7 (1.14%) C++
6 7 (1.14%) SQL
7 6 (0.97%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.49%) Go
9 2 (0.32%) Haskell
9 2 (0.32%) Rust
10 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.16%) Bicep
10 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 192 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 161 (26.14%) SC Cleared
3 95 (15.42%) CISSP
4 60 (9.74%) CISM
5 58 (9.42%) Degree
6 36 (5.84%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.06%) CHECK Team Leader
8 24 (3.90%) CHECK Team Member
8 24 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.57%) CEH
10 15 (2.44%) GIAC
11 14 (2.27%) OSCP
12 13 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (2.11%) CRISC
13 12 (1.95%) CISA
13 12 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.62%) CESG Certified Professional
14 10 (1.62%) PMI Certification
15 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (19.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (17.21%) NIST
3 47 (7.63%) GDPR
4 30 (4.87%) GRC
5 27 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (4.38%) NCSC
6 24 (3.90%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.46%) EU AI Act
9 8 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 8 (1.30%) QA
9 8 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.14%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.14%) SLA
11 6 (0.97%) COBIT
11 6 (0.97%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.65%) PMO
13 3 (0.49%) ITGC
13 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.97%) Docker
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (5.19%) Terraform
2 31 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (2.76%) SCCM
5 13 (2.11%) Ansible
6 12 (1.95%) CASB
7 6 (0.97%) CSIRT
7 6 (0.97%) Nessus
7 6 (0.97%) QRadar
7 6 (0.97%) SCOrch
8 4 (0.65%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.49%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.49%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.49%) WSUS
10 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.32%) logstash
10 2 (0.32%) Nagios
10 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.39%) Splunk
3 27 (4.38%) CyberArk
4 26 (4.22%) CrowdStrike
5 23 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.92%) Google
6 18 (2.92%) Palo Alto
7 17 (2.76%) Tenable
8 14 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.95%) Darktrace
10 10 (1.62%) Cisco
11 7 (1.14%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.14%) SAP
12 6 (0.97%) Netskope
12 6 (0.97%) Okta
12 6 (0.97%) Oracle
12 6 (0.97%) Qualys
13 5 (0.81%) Databricks
13 5 (0.81%) Forcepoint
13 5 (0.81%) Zscaler