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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 79 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 -17 +2
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 628 437 621
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.25% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 3.58% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 257 453
10th Percentile £407 £400 £433
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% -0.80%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £743
90th Percentile £800 £788 £825
England median daily rate £537 £556 £588
% change year-on-year -3.46% -5.40% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £26.11 £48.88 -
25th Percentile £28.65 £56.20 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +40.19% -18.60%
75th Percentile £94.69 £82.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £95.50 £83.20 -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -18.09% -23.45% +10.69%

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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -8 83 £525 -8.70% 87
South London -26 7 £339 -28.68%
West London -17 6 £423 -0.59% 19
North London +4 4 - - 7
East London -5 2 £717 +13.81% 14
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 16 (2.55%) Confluence
2 14 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.11%) Apache
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.91%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.48%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 147 (23.41%) Azure
2 85 (13.54%) AWS
3 63 (10.03%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (6.05%) Entra ID
5 29 (4.62%) GCP
5 29 (4.62%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (3.82%) GitHub
7 23 (3.66%) SaaS
8 17 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 14 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (2.07%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.75%) PaaS
12 10 (1.59%) Mimecast
13 9 (1.43%) Azure AI
14 8 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.11%) IaaS
15 7 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 76 (12.10%) Firewall
2 39 (6.21%) Network Security
3 12 (1.91%) WAN
4 10 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.43%) DNS
5 9 (1.43%) VPN
6 7 (1.11%) Wireless
7 6 (0.96%) BGP
7 6 (0.96%) LAN
8 5 (0.80%) OSPF
8 5 (0.80%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.64%) Broadband
9 4 (0.64%) DHCP
9 4 (0.64%) Internet
9 4 (0.64%) NGFW
10 3 (0.48%) HTTP
10 3 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.48%) Modbus
11 2 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.32%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.07%) Power BI
2 10 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.80%) Big Data
4 4 (0.64%) Tableau
5 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.32%) Metadata
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.16%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 22 (3.50%) Jenkins
2 21 (3.34%) JIRA
3 3 (0.48%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.32%) Git
5 1 (0.16%) Ant
5 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.16%) GitLab
5 1 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 209 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 158 (25.16%) Finance
3 67 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.44%) Banking
6 33 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (3.34%) Investment Banking
8 19 (3.03%) Legal
9 18 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.39%) Retail
11 13 (2.07%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.07%) Local Government
12 12 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.27%) Military
16 6 (0.96%) Spanish Language
17 3 (0.48%) Law
17 3 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 85 (13.54%) Analyst
2 67 (10.67%) Architect
3 64 (10.19%) Senior
4 63 (10.03%) Security Engineer
5 56 (8.92%) Consultant
6 55 (8.76%) Security Manager
7 51 (8.12%) Project Manager
8 41 (6.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 40 (6.37%) Security Architect
10 38 (6.05%) Security Analyst
11 37 (5.89%) Security Specialist
12 34 (5.41%) Security Consultant
13 30 (4.78%) Lead
14 27 (4.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 27 (4.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 25 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 25 (3.98%) Tester
16 24 (3.82%) Business Analyst
17 22 (3.50%) Penetration Tester
17 22 (3.50%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.82%) SAML
2 23 (3.66%) OpenID
3 15 (2.39%) LDAP
4 14 (2.23%) REST
5 10 (1.59%) SailPoint
6 9 (1.43%) Kafka
7 8 (1.27%) .NET
7 8 (1.27%) OAuth
7 8 (1.27%) React
8 5 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (0.80%) NestJS
9 4 (0.64%) Node.js
10 3 (0.48%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.48%) Middleware
10 3 (0.48%) Next.js
10 3 (0.48%) RESTful
11 2 (0.32%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.96%) Security Posture
2 41 (6.53%) Management Information System
3 40 (6.37%) Cloud Native
4 35 (5.57%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (4.30%) Security Operations Centre
7 21 (3.34%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (2.39%) Operational Technology
9 14 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.23%) PKI
9 14 (2.23%) Product Ownership
10 13 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.59%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.43%) BYOD
13 9 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.96%) NHS
15 5 (0.80%) IoT
15 5 (0.80%) SCADA
15 5 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.24%) Windows
2 38 (6.05%) Linux
3 14 (2.23%) Mac OS
4 13 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.91%) Unix
6 8 (1.27%) VMS
6 8 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) CentOS
8 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (18.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 110 (17.52%) Information Security
3 106 (16.88%) Incident Response
4 104 (16.56%) SIEM
5 95 (15.13%) Agile
6 93 (14.81%) Cloud Security
6 93 (14.81%) Risk Management
7 79 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 75 (11.94%) Security Operations
9 67 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (9.87%) AI
10 62 (9.87%) Vulnerability Management
11 61 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (9.55%) CI/CD
13 59 (9.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 59 (9.39%) Identity Access Management
13 59 (9.39%) Threat Intelligence
14 53 (8.44%) DevOps
15 48 (7.64%) Data Protection
15 48 (7.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.80%) Python
2 37 (5.89%) PowerShell
3 21 (3.34%) Kusto Query Language
4 17 (2.71%) Bash
5 11 (1.75%) Java
5 11 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.75%) SQL
6 9 (1.43%) C++
6 9 (1.43%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.27%) C#
8 4 (0.64%) Rust
9 3 (0.48%) Go
10 2 (0.32%) Haskell
11 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 206 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 180 (28.66%) SC Cleared
3 100 (15.92%) CISSP
4 67 (10.67%) CISM
5 55 (8.76%) Degree
6 34 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.66%) CHECK Team Leader
8 22 (3.50%) CHECK Team Member
9 20 (3.18%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (2.71%) CRISC
11 15 (2.39%) GIAC
12 14 (2.23%) CEH
12 14 (2.23%) PMI Certification
13 12 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (1.75%) PMP
15 10 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
15 10 (1.59%) CISA
15 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (1.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (19.59%) NIST
2 122 (19.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (8.12%) GDPR
4 43 (6.85%) GRC
5 34 (5.41%) NCSC
6 27 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (4.14%) PCI DSS
8 14 (2.23%) COBIT
8 14 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.59%) QA
10 10 (1.59%) SOC 2
11 9 (1.43%) SLA
12 7 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 7 (1.11%) PMO
13 6 (0.96%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.80%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.64%) ITGC
System Software
1 36 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.27%) Docker
4 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.78%) Terraform
3 26 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (3.18%) SCCM
5 14 (2.23%) Ansible
6 10 (1.59%) CASB
7 7 (1.11%) AirWatch
8 6 (0.96%) SCOrch
9 5 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.64%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.48%) logstash
11 3 (0.48%) Nessus
11 3 (0.48%) QRadar
11 3 (0.48%) WSUS
12 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.32%) Nagios
12 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 139 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.87%) Splunk
3 31 (4.94%) CyberArk
4 26 (4.14%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (2.87%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.55%) Google
7 16 (2.55%) Tenable
8 10 (1.59%) Cisco
9 9 (1.43%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.43%) Foundry
9 9 (1.43%) Netskope
10 8 (1.27%) Okta
10 8 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.27%) Qualys
11 6 (0.96%) SAP
11 6 (0.96%) VMware
11 6 (0.96%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.80%) Darktrace
12 5 (0.80%) Ping Identity