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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 69 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 764 472 567
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.00% 3.76% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.07% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 289 423
10th Percentile £413 £360 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £687 £675 £725
90th Percentile £825 £767 £800
England median daily rate £557 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £33.74 £48.06 £30.02
25th Percentile £54.88 £51.51 £30.06
Median hourly rate £71.25 £64.05 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% +112.65% -56.97%
75th Percentile £96.25 £74.61 £53.19
90th Percentile £102.48 £76.89 £67.02
England median hourly rate £83.00 £64.30 £78.00
% change year-on-year +29.08% -17.56% +4.00%

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 16,970 11,588 15,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,314 7,764 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -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 260 214 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +9 104 £550 +3.19% 76
South London -13 7 £165 -65.26% 7
East London -7 4 £715 +20.68% 22
West London -29 3 £750 +53.85% 44
North London -2 1 - - 12
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 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.57%) Confluence
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 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
1 216 (28.27%) Azure
2 123 (16.10%) AWS
3 79 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (7.85%) Entra ID
5 59 (7.72%) GCP
6 51 (6.68%) SaaS
7 44 (5.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 36 (4.71%) Azure Sentinel
9 24 (3.14%) GitHub
10 21 (2.75%) Amazon Bedrock
11 19 (2.49%) PaaS
12 16 (2.09%) Azure AI
12 16 (2.09%) IaaS
13 15 (1.96%) Mimecast
14 14 (1.83%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (1.57%) OpenShift
17 11 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 57 (7.46%) Firewall
2 50 (6.54%) Network Security
3 18 (2.36%) DNS
4 13 (1.70%) VPN
5 10 (1.31%) Internet
6 8 (1.05%) NGFW
7 7 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.92%) VLAN
8 6 (0.79%) LAN
8 6 (0.79%) WAN
9 5 (0.65%) DHCP
9 5 (0.65%) DKIM
9 5 (0.65%) DMARC
10 4 (0.52%) BGP
11 3 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (0.39%) Intranet
11 3 (0.39%) IPsec
11 3 (0.39%) OSPF
11 3 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.57%) Power BI
2 9 (1.18%) Big Data
3 4 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (0.52%) 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 (3.01%) JIRA
2 21 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.05%) Git
4 5 (0.65%) GitLab
5 4 (0.52%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.52%) 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
1 216 (28.27%) Finance
2 199 (26.05%) Social Skills
3 80 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.07%) Banking
6 38 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.40%) Legal
9 20 (2.62%) Local Government
10 19 (2.49%) Retail
11 13 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.44%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.92%) Military
16 4 (0.52%) Aviation
16 4 (0.52%) Law
16 4 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (15.31%) Architect
2 105 (13.74%) Analyst
3 70 (9.16%) Security Architect
4 64 (8.38%) Project Manager
5 60 (7.85%) Security Engineer
6 57 (7.46%) Consultant
7 56 (7.33%) Senior
8 54 (7.07%) Security Manager
9 48 (6.28%) Lead
10 46 (6.02%) Security Consultant
11 44 (5.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 44 (5.76%) Security Analyst
12 43 (5.63%) Business Analyst
13 36 (4.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 36 (4.71%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 32 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 31 (4.06%) Security Specialist
16 29 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 28 (3.66%) Cybersecurity Architect
18 21 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.36%) SAML
2 17 (2.23%) LDAP
2 17 (2.23%) OpenID
3 13 (1.70%) SailPoint
4 9 (1.18%) OAuth
4 9 (1.18%) REST
5 6 (0.79%) Middleware
6 5 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (0.52%) NestJS
7 4 (0.52%) RESTful
8 3 (0.39%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.39%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.39%) Django
8 3 (0.39%) Web Services
9 2 (0.26%) .NET
9 2 (0.26%) FIDO
9 2 (0.26%) JSON
9 2 (0.26%) Node.js
9 2 (0.26%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.38%) Security Posture
2 54 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 43 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.19%) Operational Technology
5 27 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.40%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
8 16 (2.09%) SCADA
9 15 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.83%) PKI
11 12 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.44%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.31%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.18%) BYOD
15 8 (1.05%) CMDB
15 8 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
16 7 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
16 7 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.37%) Windows
2 22 (2.88%) Linux
3 17 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.18%) Unix
5 7 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.52%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.52%) VMS
8 4 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 107 (14.01%) Information Security
3 106 (13.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 105 (13.74%) Risk Management
5 104 (13.61%) Incident Response
6 102 (13.35%) SIEM
7 92 (12.04%) Cloud Security
7 92 (12.04%) Vulnerability Management
8 90 (11.78%) Security Operations
9 87 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (10.60%) Agile
10 81 (10.60%) AI
11 80 (10.47%) Security Architecture
12 74 (9.69%) Data Protection
12 74 (9.69%) Identity Access Management
13 68 (8.90%) DevOps
14 66 (8.64%) CI/CD
14 66 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (8.64%) Threat Modelling
15 65 (8.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.15%) Python
2 35 (4.58%) PowerShell
3 23 (3.01%) SQL
4 18 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
5 12 (1.57%) Bash
6 8 (1.05%) Bicep
6 8 (1.05%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (0.39%) C#
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
10 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 184 (24.08%) Security Cleared
2 144 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 133 (17.41%) CISSP
4 85 (11.13%) CISM
5 60 (7.85%) Degree
6 40 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (4.58%) DV Cleared
8 34 (4.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 27 (3.53%) GIAC
10 25 (3.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 25 (3.27%) CRISC
11 23 (3.01%) CEH
12 22 (2.88%) CISA
13 18 (2.36%) PMI Certification
14 16 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (2.09%) PMP
15 15 (1.96%) CCSP
16 13 (1.70%) Azure Certification
17 11 (1.44%) AWS Certification
17 11 (1.44%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (21.60%) NIST
2 142 (18.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (7.85%) GDPR
3 60 (7.85%) NCSC
4 59 (7.72%) GRC
5 44 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 37 (4.84%) COBIT
7 35 (4.58%) PCI DSS
8 34 (4.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 20 (2.62%) QA
10 16 (2.09%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.83%) ITGC
11 14 (1.83%) NIST 800
12 11 (1.44%) PMO
13 9 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (1.05%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.65%) SLA
17 4 (0.52%) JSP 440
System Software
1 46 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.83%) Docker
3 10 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) NFS
6 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (4.84%) Terraform
2 36 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.96%) Ansible
5 12 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.18%) CASB
7 7 (0.92%) AirWatch
8 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.39%) Grafana
8 3 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.39%) Puppet
8 3 (0.39%) QRadar
8 3 (0.39%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.26%) Nessus
9 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.26%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 182 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.07%) Splunk
3 47 (6.15%) CyberArk
4 41 (5.37%) CrowdStrike
5 31 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.88%) Google
7 20 (2.62%) Tenable
8 19 (2.49%) OpenAI
8 19 (2.49%) Qualys
9 17 (2.23%) Foundry
10 15 (1.96%) Netskope
10 15 (1.96%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.18%) Okta
11 9 (1.18%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.18%) Zscaler
12 8 (1.05%) Cisco
13 7 (0.92%) VMware
14 6 (0.79%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.79%) Oracle
15 4 (0.52%) OneTrust