Cybersecurity Contracts in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 68 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +24
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 426 585 1,055
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.39% 3.28% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.70% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 439 722
10th Percentile £337 £405 £450
25th Percentile £450 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £640 £733 £738
90th Percentile £753 £825 £820
England median daily rate £550 £582 £601
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.08% +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £50.36 - £62.20
25th Percentile £57.28 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £73.60 £30.12 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.36% -55.38% +145.45%
75th Percentile £80.80 - £71.25
90th Percentile £82.24 - £84.75
England median hourly rate £73.31 £83.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.20% +23.70% +45.07%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -9 77 £575 -8.00% 62
South London +26 21 £475 -29.63% 8
East London +1 11 £615 -5.38% 6
West London +6 7 £425 -19.05% 26
North London - 4 £556 - 2
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) CICS
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) IIS
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) SPSS
5 1 (0.23%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (25.12%) Azure
2 64 (15.02%) AWS
3 31 (7.28%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (7.04%) GCP
5 23 (5.40%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (3.76%) Entra ID
8 15 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 14 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (2.58%) PaaS
10 11 (2.58%) Serverless
11 9 (2.11%) GitHub
11 9 (2.11%) IaaS
12 7 (1.64%) SaaS
13 6 (1.41%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.17%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.17%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.70%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.86%) Firewall
2 35 (8.22%) Network Security
3 18 (4.23%) DNS
4 16 (3.76%) TCP/IP
4 16 (3.76%) VPN
5 12 (2.82%) DHCP
6 11 (2.58%) WAN
7 9 (2.11%) HTTP
7 9 (2.11%) LAN
8 7 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (1.64%) VoIP
8 7 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.17%) SMTP
10 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.94%) Wireless
11 3 (0.70%) SAN
11 3 (0.70%) SSL
11 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.47%) NAS
12 2 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.93%) Power BI
2 12 (2.82%) Tableau
3 7 (1.64%) Big Data
4 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.47%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) QGIS
6 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.29%) JIRA
2 5 (1.17%) Git
3 4 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.70%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.70%) Mocha
4 3 (0.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.23%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) MSI
6 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 123 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.70%) Finance
3 67 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.97%) Banking
5 41 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.98%) Legal
7 15 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.88%) Law
11 8 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.41%) Games
12 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.17%) Local Government
13 5 (1.17%) Marketing
13 5 (1.17%) Military
14 3 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (22.54%) Analyst
2 61 (14.32%) Architect
3 46 (10.80%) Security Analyst
4 38 (8.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 34 (7.98%) Consultant
6 33 (7.75%) Lead
6 33 (7.75%) Security Architect
7 30 (7.04%) Senior
8 29 (6.81%) Security Manager
9 24 (5.63%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.16%) Project Manager
11 20 (4.69%) Business Analyst
12 19 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.29%) Security Consultant
14 12 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 12 (2.82%) Security Project Manager
15 10 (2.35%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.35%) IT Engineer
16 9 (2.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 9 (2.11%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.11%) HTML
2 8 (1.88%) CSS
2 8 (1.88%) REST
3 6 (1.41%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.94%) LDAP
4 4 (0.94%) Node.js
5 3 (0.70%) .NET
5 3 (0.70%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.70%) GatsbyJS
5 3 (0.70%) HTML5
5 3 (0.70%) Jest
5 3 (0.70%) OAuth
5 3 (0.70%) OpenAPI
5 3 (0.70%) React
5 3 (0.70%) SAML
5 3 (0.70%) SPFx
5 3 (0.70%) SVG
5 3 (0.70%) Swagger
5 3 (0.70%) WebRTC
5 3 (0.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.33%) Security Posture
2 32 (7.51%) Management Information System
3 27 (6.34%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
6 12 (2.82%) Operational Technology
7 10 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 8 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.64%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.64%) Insider Threat
9 7 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.41%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.03%) Windows
2 28 (6.57%) Linux
3 14 (3.29%) Windows 10
4 13 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.11%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.41%) Unix
7 4 (0.94%) Android
8 2 (0.47%) AIX
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.47%) Solaris
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (19.01%) Risk Management
3 71 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 71 (16.67%) Information Security
4 59 (13.85%) Security Operations
4 59 (13.85%) SIEM
5 57 (13.38%) Cloud Security
6 53 (12.44%) Agile
7 43 (10.09%) Project Management
8 42 (9.86%) Vulnerability Management
9 39 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (7.98%) Computer Science
11 33 (7.75%) Security Architecture
11 33 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (7.51%) Data Loss Prevention
12 32 (7.51%) Risk Assessment
13 31 (7.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 29 (6.81%) ITIL
15 28 (6.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 52 (12.21%) Python
2 40 (9.39%) PowerShell
3 23 (5.40%) SQL
4 14 (3.29%) Bash
5 13 (3.05%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.41%) Ruby
8 5 (1.17%) Java
8 5 (1.17%) PHP
9 3 (0.70%) C#
9 3 (0.70%) Rust
10 2 (0.47%) C++
10 2 (0.47%) Go
10 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) FoxPro (VFP)
11 1 (0.23%) Groovy
11 1 (0.23%) Perl
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 85 (19.95%) CISSP
2 79 (18.54%) Security Cleared
3 65 (15.26%) SC Cleared
4 64 (15.02%) Degree
5 46 (10.80%) CISM
6 22 (5.16%) CEH
7 21 (4.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 18 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (3.52%) DV Cleared
10 15 (3.52%) OSCP
11 14 (3.29%) CISA
12 12 (2.82%) CCSP
12 12 (2.82%) CRISC
13 11 (2.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (2.58%) AWS Certification
13 11 (2.58%) GCIH
13 11 (2.58%) GIAC
13 11 (2.58%) Master's Degree
14 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (21.36%) NIST
2 89 (20.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (10.56%) GDPR
4 23 (5.40%) GRC
5 15 (3.52%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.29%) HIPAA
7 12 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (2.82%) Data Quality
8 11 (2.58%) NIST 800
8 11 (2.58%) QA
8 11 (2.58%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.88%) NCSC
9 8 (1.88%) SLA
10 7 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.94%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 35 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.70%) Docker
5 3 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (4.23%) SCCM
2 15 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.58%) CASB
4 9 (2.11%) Ansible
4 9 (2.11%) Terraform
5 7 (1.64%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.70%) Grafana
8 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.70%) QRadar
8 3 (0.70%) WSUS
9 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.47%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.47%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.23%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 113 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.16%) Splunk
3 16 (3.76%) Google
4 14 (3.29%) Cisco
5 13 (3.05%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.05%) VMware
6 10 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (2.35%) CyberArk
7 9 (2.11%) Apple
7 9 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.11%) Zscaler
8 8 (1.88%) Qualys
9 7 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
9 7 (1.64%) Planview
10 6 (1.41%) Okta
10 6 (1.41%) Oracle
10 6 (1.41%) SAP
10 6 (1.41%) Veritas
11 5 (1.17%) Databricks
11 5 (1.17%) Tenable