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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 69 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 777 480 564
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 3.78% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.09% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 297 420
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £800 £769 £800
England median daily rate £558 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +1.36% -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £33.74 - £30.02
25th Percentile £54.88 £45.75 £30.06
Median hourly rate £71.25 £54.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% +80.94% -56.97%
75th Percentile £96.25 £63.25 £53.19
90th Percentile £102.48 - £67.02
England median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £79.63
% change year-on-year +50.91% -30.93% +6.18%

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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +6 105 £550 +3.19% 53
South London -13 8 £308 -38.50% 8
East London -6 4 £715 +20.68% 22
West London -25 4 £500 +11.11% 43
North London -1 2 £400 -28.09% 13
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 13 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.54%) Confluence
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) CMS
4 1 (0.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 218 (28.06%) Azure
2 125 (16.09%) AWS
3 78 (10.04%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (7.98%) Entra ID
5 60 (7.72%) GCP
6 51 (6.56%) SaaS
7 43 (5.53%) Microsoft Purview
8 38 (4.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 25 (3.22%) GitHub
10 21 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
11 19 (2.45%) PaaS
12 16 (2.06%) Azure AI
12 16 (2.06%) IaaS
13 14 (1.80%) Mimecast
13 14 (1.80%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.54%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 56 (7.21%) Firewall
2 51 (6.56%) Network Security
3 18 (2.32%) DNS
4 13 (1.67%) VPN
5 10 (1.29%) Internet
6 7 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (0.90%) NGFW
6 7 (0.90%) VLAN
7 6 (0.77%) LAN
7 6 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.77%) WAN
8 5 (0.64%) DHCP
8 5 (0.64%) DKIM
8 5 (0.64%) DMARC
9 4 (0.51%) Intranet
10 3 (0.39%) BGP
10 3 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
10 3 (0.39%) IPsec
11 2 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.54%) Power BI
2 9 (1.16%) Big Data
3 4 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (0.51%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.39%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.26%) Db2
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.13%) MySQL
6 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.96%) JIRA
2 21 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.03%) Git
4 5 (0.64%) GitLab
5 4 (0.51%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.51%) Snyk
6 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.13%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 218 (28.06%) Finance
2 204 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 83 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.08%) Banking
6 38 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.35%) Legal
9 22 (2.83%) Local Government
10 19 (2.45%) Retail
11 13 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.90%) Military
16 4 (0.51%) Aviation
16 4 (0.51%) Law
16 4 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (15.32%) Architect
2 109 (14.03%) Analyst
3 72 (9.27%) Security Architect
4 66 (8.49%) Project Manager
5 59 (7.59%) Security Engineer
6 58 (7.46%) Senior
7 57 (7.34%) Security Manager
8 56 (7.21%) Consultant
9 49 (6.31%) Lead
10 47 (6.05%) Security Analyst
11 46 (5.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 45 (5.79%) Security Consultant
13 43 (5.53%) Business Analyst
14 36 (4.63%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 35 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 35 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 30 (3.86%) Security Specialist
17 28 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 28 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 20 (2.57%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.32%) SAML
2 17 (2.19%) LDAP
2 17 (2.19%) OpenID
3 13 (1.67%) SailPoint
4 11 (1.42%) REST
5 9 (1.16%) OAuth
6 6 (0.77%) Middleware
7 5 (0.64%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (0.51%) NestJS
8 4 (0.51%) RESTful
9 3 (0.39%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.39%) Django
9 3 (0.39%) JSON
9 3 (0.39%) Web Services
10 2 (0.26%) .NET
10 2 (0.26%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.26%) FIDO
10 2 (0.26%) Node.js
10 2 (0.26%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.88%) Security Posture
2 53 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 44 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 34 (4.38%) Operational Technology
5 28 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.35%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.45%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.19%) SCADA
9 16 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.80%) PKI
11 13 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.54%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.54%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.29%) CMDB
14 10 (1.29%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.16%) BYOD
15 9 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
16 8 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
17 7 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.28%) Windows
2 22 (2.83%) Linux
3 17 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.16%) Unix
5 7 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.51%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.51%) VMS
8 4 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 110 (14.16%) Information Security
3 108 (13.90%) Risk Management
3 108 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 106 (13.64%) Incident Response
4 106 (13.64%) SIEM
5 98 (12.61%) Vulnerability Management
6 95 (12.23%) Security Operations
7 92 (11.84%) Cloud Security
8 88 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (10.68%) AI
10 82 (10.55%) Agile
11 81 (10.42%) Security Architecture
12 77 (9.91%) Data Protection
13 75 (9.65%) Identity Access Management
14 69 (8.88%) DevOps
14 69 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (8.75%) Roadmaps
16 67 (8.62%) Threat Modelling
17 66 (8.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 48 (6.18%) Python
2 36 (4.63%) PowerShell
3 24 (3.09%) SQL
4 17 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
5 12 (1.54%) Bash
6 8 (1.03%) Bicep
6 8 (1.03%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (0.39%) C#
8 3 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.39%) Rust
8 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.26%) C++
9 2 (0.26%) Go
9 2 (0.26%) Java
9 2 (0.26%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Groovy
10 1 (0.13%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 186 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 146 (18.79%) SC Cleared
3 138 (17.76%) CISSP
4 89 (11.45%) CISM
5 63 (8.11%) Degree
6 40 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (4.63%) DV Cleared
8 34 (4.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 28 (3.60%) GIAC
10 27 (3.47%) CRISC
11 25 (3.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 23 (2.96%) CEH
13 21 (2.70%) CISA
14 19 (2.45%) PMI Certification
15 17 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
15 17 (2.19%) PMP
16 15 (1.93%) CCSP
17 13 (1.67%) Azure Certification
18 12 (1.54%) AWS Certification
19 11 (1.42%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (21.62%) NIST
2 144 (18.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (8.11%) GDPR
3 63 (8.11%) GRC
3 63 (8.11%) NCSC
4 44 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 37 (4.76%) COBIT
6 35 (4.50%) PCI DSS
7 33 (4.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (2.70%) QA
9 17 (2.19%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.80%) ITGC
10 14 (1.80%) NIST 800
11 11 (1.42%) PMO
12 9 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (1.03%) EU AI Act
13 8 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.64%) SLA
16 4 (0.51%) JSP 440
System Software
1 46 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.93%) Docker
3 9 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) NFS
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (4.76%) Terraform
2 36 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.93%) Ansible
5 12 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.16%) CASB
7 6 (0.77%) AirWatch
8 5 (0.64%) QRadar
9 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.39%) Grafana
9 3 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.39%) Puppet
9 3 (0.39%) SCCM
10 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.26%) Nessus
10 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.26%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 185 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.21%) Splunk
3 48 (6.18%) CyberArk
4 41 (5.28%) CrowdStrike
5 33 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.83%) Google
6 22 (2.83%) Tenable
7 20 (2.57%) Qualys
8 19 (2.45%) OpenAI
9 17 (2.19%) Foundry
10 14 (1.80%) Netskope
10 14 (1.80%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.29%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.16%) Okta
12 9 (1.16%) Zscaler
13 8 (1.03%) Cisco
14 7 (0.90%) VMware
15 6 (0.77%) Oracle
16 5 (0.64%) Fortinet
17 4 (0.51%) OneTrust