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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 898 608 594
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 4.52% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 4.88% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 371 381
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £780
England median daily rate £550 £550 £587
% change year-on-year - -6.26% -2.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £38.30 £33.13 £27.14
25th Percentile £42.13 £38.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £47.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +56.04% -57.73%
75th Percentile £57.13 £58.44 £61.25
90th Percentile £61.10 £62.75 £70.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £47.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +70.21% -18.26% -21.05%

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 17,985 12,452 14,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.52% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,227 9,667
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 252 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 0 105 £550 +3.19% 213
West London -18 14 £550 +22.22% 69
East London +3 8 £525 -8.70% 26
South London -10 6 £495 -28.00% 17
North London -2 2 £400 -38.46% 10
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 18 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.11%) Confluence
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.11%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (27.84%) Azure
2 161 (17.93%) AWS
3 98 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (10.02%) Entra ID
5 69 (7.68%) GCP
6 53 (5.90%) SaaS
7 45 (5.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 43 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 30 (3.34%) Power Platform
10 22 (2.45%) GitHub
11 21 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.67%) PaaS
14 14 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (1.45%) IaaS
16 12 (1.34%) OCI
16 12 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (1.11%) Google Workspace
18 10 (1.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 65 (7.24%) Firewall
2 53 (5.90%) Network Security
3 27 (3.01%) DNS
4 20 (2.23%) VPN
5 13 (1.45%) Internet
5 13 (1.45%) WAN
6 12 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.89%) DHCP
7 8 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (0.89%) IPsec
8 7 (0.78%) LAN
9 6 (0.67%) NAS
9 6 (0.67%) SAN
9 6 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.56%) DKIM
10 5 (0.56%) HTTP
10 5 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.56%) VLAN
10 5 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.89%) Power BI
2 9 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.67%) DynamoDB
4 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.56%) Db2
4 5 (0.56%) Metadata
5 4 (0.45%) Big Data
6 3 (0.33%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (3.01%) JIRA
2 9 (1.00%) Git
3 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.78%) GitLab
5 6 (0.67%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.56%) Snyk
7 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 278 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 209 (23.27%) Finance
3 101 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.13%) Banking
6 36 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
7 35 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 33 (3.67%) Legal
9 25 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.56%) Local Government
11 19 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.00%) Retail
13 17 (1.89%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.67%) Military
15 13 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.56%) Aviation
18 4 (0.45%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 149 (16.59%) Analyst
2 138 (15.37%) Architect
3 79 (8.80%) Security Architect
4 76 (8.46%) Senior
5 75 (8.35%) Security Analyst
6 72 (8.02%) Consultant
7 69 (7.68%) Lead
8 64 (7.13%) Security Engineer
9 62 (6.90%) Project Manager
10 59 (6.57%) Security Manager
11 49 (5.46%) Business Analyst
12 46 (5.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 45 (5.01%) Security Consultant
14 43 (4.79%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 30 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 30 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 27 (3.01%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 27 (3.01%) IT Manager
17 25 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
18 21 (2.34%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.01%) Terraform
2 16 (1.78%) OAuth
3 12 (1.34%) REST
3 12 (1.34%) SAML
4 10 (1.11%) SailPoint
5 9 (1.00%) OpenID
6 8 (0.89%) LDAP
6 8 (0.89%) Middleware
7 7 (0.78%) FIDO
7 7 (0.78%) WebAuthn
8 6 (0.67%) AWS CDK
8 6 (0.67%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.56%) JSON
10 4 (0.45%) Django
10 4 (0.45%) RESTful
11 3 (0.33%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.33%) JWT
11 3 (0.33%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.02%) Onboarding
2 64 (7.13%) Security Posture
3 63 (7.02%) Operational Technology
4 40 (4.45%) Cyber Threat
5 36 (4.01%) Management Information System
6 34 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 34 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 27 (3.01%) Cyber Defence
8 23 (2.56%) SCADA
9 19 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 19 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.78%) CMDB
12 15 (1.67%) PKI
13 14 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
14 11 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (1.11%) Cyberattack
15 10 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.90%) Windows
2 27 (3.01%) Linux
3 17 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.78%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.11%) Unix
6 9 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (28.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 167 (18.60%) Risk Management
3 158 (17.59%) Incident Response
4 148 (16.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 146 (16.26%) Vulnerability Management
6 144 (16.04%) Security Operations
7 129 (14.37%) Cloud Security
8 128 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (13.36%) Security Architecture
10 118 (13.14%) Roadmaps
11 116 (12.92%) SIEM
12 110 (12.25%) Agile
13 106 (11.80%) Information Security
14 102 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
15 98 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
16 89 (9.91%) AI
17 87 (9.69%) Decision-Making
18 86 (9.58%) Data Protection
19 77 (8.57%) DevOps
20 73 (8.13%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (5.68%) Python
2 48 (5.35%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.56%) SQL
4 17 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (1.56%) Bicep
6 13 (1.45%) Bash
7 6 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.45%) Korn
10 2 (0.22%) C#
10 2 (0.22%) Java
10 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.22%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) Go
11 1 (0.11%) Groovy
11 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 228 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 176 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 158 (17.59%) CISSP
4 104 (11.58%) CISM
5 69 (7.68%) Degree
6 47 (5.23%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (4.23%) PMP
9 37 (4.12%) PMI Certification
10 35 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 32 (3.56%) CRISC
12 30 (3.34%) Azure Certification
13 29 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 27 (3.01%) GIAC
15 26 (2.90%) AWS Certification
16 25 (2.78%) CEH
17 20 (2.23%) CCSP
18 19 (2.12%) CISA
18 19 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
19 16 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (21.83%) NIST
2 191 (21.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (8.69%) NCSC
4 67 (7.46%) GRC
5 54 (6.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 50 (5.57%) GDPR
7 40 (4.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 30 (3.34%) PCI DSS
9 29 (3.23%) COBIT
10 22 (2.45%) NIST 800
10 22 (2.45%) PMO
11 19 (2.12%) QA
12 16 (1.78%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (1.11%) ITGC
15 9 (1.00%) SLA
16 8 (0.89%) EU AI Act
17 7 (0.78%) Data Quality
17 7 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 58 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.00%) Docker
3 12 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.67%) NFS
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.33%) vSphere
6 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) Samba
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.78%) Ansible
4 14 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.56%) Puppet
6 5 (0.56%) QRadar
7 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.45%) Grafana
7 4 (0.45%) Nessus
8 3 (0.33%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.33%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.22%) MOM
9 2 (0.22%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
10 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 237 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.35%) Splunk
3 45 (5.01%) ServiceNow
4 38 (4.23%) CrowdStrike
5 34 (3.79%) CyberArk
6 27 (3.01%) Google
6 27 (3.01%) Qualys
7 25 (2.78%) Tenable
8 17 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.78%) VMware
10 14 (1.56%) Cisco
11 13 (1.45%) Oracle
11 13 (1.45%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.22%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.00%) Okta
14 8 (0.89%) Databricks
15 7 (0.78%) Netskope
16 6 (0.67%) Apple
16 6 (0.67%) BeyondTrust
16 6 (0.67%) Siemens