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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 592 506 658
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.22% 3.63% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 4.03% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 315 453
10th Percentile £414 £413 £403
25th Percentile £488 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £613
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -3.67% -2.00%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £745
90th Percentile £800 £795 £813
England median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 2
10th Percentile £26.11 £38.62 £53.00
25th Percentile £33.72 £56.20 £55.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £73.60 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.14% +17.76% +47.93%
75th Percentile £73.75 £82.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £92.13 £83.20 £74.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -15.81% -25.52% +11.54%

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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -19 72 £525 -8.70% 89
West London -16 5 £423 -3.43% 32
North London - 5 £650 - 5
South London -21 3 £525 +7.64% 26
East London -10 1 £575 -10.16% 35
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 19 (3.21%) Confluence
2 11 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.52%) Apache
4 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 128 (21.62%) Azure
2 74 (12.50%) AWS
3 53 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (5.91%) Entra ID
5 29 (4.90%) GCP
6 28 (4.73%) GitHub
7 24 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (3.21%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (2.70%) Power Platform
11 15 (2.53%) SaaS
12 13 (2.20%) Serverless
13 10 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (1.01%) Azure AKS
16 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (1.01%) Mimecast
17 5 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 83 (14.02%) Firewall
2 46 (7.77%) Network Security
3 13 (2.20%) WAN
4 11 (1.86%) DNS
4 11 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.69%) VPN
6 8 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.35%) Wireless
7 7 (1.18%) SSL
7 7 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.01%) Internet
8 6 (1.01%) LAN
8 6 (1.01%) Modbus
9 4 (0.68%) BGP
9 4 (0.68%) HTTP
9 4 (0.68%) OSPF
10 3 (0.51%) Broadband
10 3 (0.51%) SSH
11 2 (0.34%) IPsec
11 2 (0.34%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.20%) Power BI
2 8 (1.35%) Big Data
2 8 (1.35%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.68%) Tableau
5 3 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.34%) Metadata
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.34%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.17%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.17%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (4.56%) JIRA
2 11 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.84%) GitLab
4 3 (0.51%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.34%) Git
6 1 (0.17%) Ant
6 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.17%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.17%) Snyk
6 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 174 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 137 (23.14%) Finance
3 61 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (9.29%) Banking
6 20 (3.38%) Local Government
7 19 (3.21%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.70%) Legal
8 16 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.53%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.86%) Retail
13 10 (1.69%) Military
14 9 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.18%) Law
16 6 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.01%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 86 (14.53%) Analyst
2 78 (13.18%) Security Engineer
3 59 (9.97%) Senior
4 56 (9.46%) Consultant
5 49 (8.28%) Architect
6 45 (7.60%) Security Manager
7 40 (6.76%) Project Manager
8 39 (6.59%) Security Analyst
9 37 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 37 (6.25%) Security Architect
10 36 (6.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 32 (5.41%) Security Consultant
12 31 (5.24%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 29 (4.90%) Tester
14 28 (4.73%) Lead
15 24 (4.05%) Penetration Tester
16 22 (3.72%) Business Analyst
16 22 (3.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 22 (3.72%) Security Specialist
17 17 (2.87%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.70%) Kafka
2 12 (2.03%) React
2 12 (2.03%) REST
2 12 (2.03%) SAML
3 11 (1.86%) OpenID
4 8 (1.35%) .NET
4 8 (1.35%) SailPoint
5 7 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (1.18%) OAuth
6 5 (0.84%) LangChain
6 5 (0.84%) LDAP
7 4 (0.68%) GraphQL
7 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.68%) Node.js
8 3 (0.51%) FastAPI
8 3 (0.51%) NestJS
8 3 (0.51%) Next.js
8 3 (0.51%) Regular Expression
9 2 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
2 45 (7.60%) Management Information System
3 40 (6.76%) Security Posture
4 29 (4.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 28 (4.73%) Onboarding
6 26 (4.39%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.89%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (3.04%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.87%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.70%) Operational Technology
11 15 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.69%) PKI
13 9 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.18%) NHS
16 6 (1.01%) IoT
17 5 (0.84%) BYOD
17 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (10.81%) Windows
2 45 (7.60%) Linux
3 14 (2.36%) Mac OS
3 14 (2.36%) Unix
4 11 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.52%) VMS
6 7 (1.18%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.34%) CentOS
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (20.27%) Incident Response
2 111 (18.75%) SIEM
3 97 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 91 (15.37%) Agile
5 88 (14.86%) Cloud Security
6 87 (14.70%) Information Security
7 85 (14.36%) Risk Management
8 84 (14.19%) Security Operations
9 68 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 62 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (10.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 61 (10.30%) Threat Intelligence
12 58 (9.80%) Vulnerability Management
13 54 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (8.95%) CI/CD
14 53 (8.95%) Identity Access Management
15 50 (8.45%) DevOps
15 50 (8.45%) Security Architecture
16 48 (8.11%) AI
17 41 (6.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 57 (9.63%) Python
2 42 (7.09%) PowerShell
3 31 (5.24%) Kusto Query Language
4 17 (2.87%) Bash
5 13 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.03%) Java
7 9 (1.52%) C#
7 9 (1.52%) C++
8 8 (1.35%) SQL
9 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) Go
10 1 (0.17%) Haskell
10 1 (0.17%) Rust
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 182 (30.74%) Security Cleared
2 154 (26.01%) SC Cleared
3 91 (15.37%) CISSP
4 56 (9.46%) CISM
5 53 (8.95%) Degree
6 39 (6.59%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.22%) CHECK Team Leader
8 24 (4.05%) CHECK Team Member
8 24 (4.05%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.72%) CEH
10 15 (2.53%) GIAC
11 12 (2.03%) CISA
11 12 (2.03%) OSCP
12 11 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
13 10 (1.69%) PMI Certification
13 10 (1.69%) PMP
14 9 (1.52%) CRISC
14 9 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (18.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 98 (16.55%) NIST
3 46 (7.77%) GDPR
4 28 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (4.56%) GRC
6 23 (3.89%) NCSC
7 21 (3.55%) PCI DSS
8 14 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.52%) EU AI Act
9 9 (1.52%) QA
10 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (1.18%) Accessibility
11 7 (1.18%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.18%) SLA
11 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
12 6 (1.01%) COBIT
13 4 (0.68%) ITGC
13 4 (0.68%) PMO
14 3 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.68%) Docker
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (5.07%) Terraform
2 22 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (2.87%) SCCM
5 13 (2.20%) Ansible
5 13 (2.20%) CASB
6 6 (1.01%) CSIRT
6 6 (1.01%) Nessus
6 6 (1.01%) QRadar
6 6 (1.01%) SCOrch
7 4 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.51%) AirWatch
8 3 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.51%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.51%) WSUS
9 2 (0.34%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.34%) logstash
9 2 (0.34%) Nagios
9 2 (0.34%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 132 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 58 (9.80%) Splunk
3 26 (4.39%) CrowdStrike
4 23 (3.89%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.38%) CyberArk
6 17 (2.87%) Google
6 17 (2.87%) Palo Alto
6 17 (2.87%) Tenable
7 13 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.03%) Darktrace
9 10 (1.69%) Cisco
10 9 (1.52%) SAP
11 8 (1.35%) Oracle
12 6 (1.01%) Okta
12 6 (1.01%) Rapid7
12 6 (1.01%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.84%) Forcepoint
13 5 (0.84%) Netskope
13 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.84%) Zscaler