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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 69 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 610 477 633
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 3.48% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 3.84% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 282 453
10th Percentile £401 £400 £423
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% -2.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £740
90th Percentile £800 £788 £810
England median daily rate £539 £575 £599
% change year-on-year -6.30% -3.97% -0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 2
10th Percentile £26.11 £48.88 £53.00
25th Percentile £28.65 £56.20 £55.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £73.60 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.14% +17.76% -2.34%
75th Percentile £76.25 £82.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £93.88 £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 13,562 12,418 16,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.85% 90.52% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 7,884 11,754
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 154 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.48 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +22.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.25 £79.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -13 80 £525 -8.70% 89
West London -19 6 £423 -3.43% 32
South London -21 6 £339 -28.68% 11
North London +7 5 - - 7
East London -6 1 £575 -10.16% 28
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 17 (2.79%) Confluence
2 13 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.15%) Apache
3 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.97%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.49%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 126 (20.66%) Azure
2 75 (12.30%) AWS
3 54 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (5.08%) Entra ID
5 29 (4.75%) GitHub
6 28 (4.59%) GCP
7 25 (4.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (2.95%) SaaS
10 16 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (2.46%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.13%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.64%) Serverless
14 9 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.31%) Mimecast
15 8 (1.31%) PaaS
16 6 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.28%) Firewall
2 47 (7.70%) Network Security
3 12 (1.97%) WAN
4 11 (1.80%) VPN
5 10 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.48%) DNS
7 7 (1.15%) Internet
7 7 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (1.15%) Wireless
8 6 (0.98%) LAN
8 6 (0.98%) SSL
9 5 (0.82%) BGP
9 5 (0.82%) Modbus
9 5 (0.82%) OSPF
9 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.66%) Broadband
10 4 (0.66%) NGFW
11 3 (0.49%) HTTP
12 2 (0.33%) DHCP
12 2 (0.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.97%) Power BI
2 8 (1.31%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.82%) Big Data
4 4 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (0.66%) Tableau
5 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.33%) Metadata
7 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.16%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.16%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 22 (3.61%) Jenkins
1 22 (3.61%) JIRA
2 4 (0.66%) Git
2 4 (0.66%) GitLab
3 3 (0.49%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Ant
5 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.16%) Snyk
5 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 194 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 154 (25.25%) Finance
3 68 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 56 (9.18%) Banking
6 31 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.28%) Investment Banking
9 18 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (2.95%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.46%) Legal
10 15 (2.46%) Local Government
11 13 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.13%) Retail
12 12 (1.97%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.64%) Military
13 10 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.98%) Law
14 6 (0.98%) Spanish Language
15 5 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 88 (14.43%) Analyst
2 63 (10.33%) Architect
2 63 (10.33%) Security Engineer
3 58 (9.51%) Senior
4 55 (9.02%) Consultant
5 48 (7.87%) Security Manager
6 42 (6.89%) Security Analyst
7 40 (6.56%) Project Manager
8 37 (6.07%) Security Architect
9 34 (5.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 32 (5.25%) Security Consultant
10 32 (5.25%) Security Specialist
11 30 (4.92%) Lead
12 29 (4.75%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 28 (4.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 28 (4.59%) Tester
14 25 (4.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 24 (3.93%) Penetration Tester
16 23 (3.77%) Business Analyst
17 18 (2.95%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.77%) SAML
2 22 (3.61%) OpenID
3 15 (2.46%) LDAP
4 14 (2.30%) REST
5 12 (1.97%) Kafka
6 10 (1.64%) SailPoint
7 9 (1.48%) React
8 8 (1.31%) .NET
9 7 (1.15%) OAuth
10 5 (0.82%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (0.66%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.66%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (0.66%) NestJS
11 4 (0.66%) Next.js
12 3 (0.49%) LangChain
12 3 (0.49%) Node.js
13 2 (0.33%) Regular Expression
13 2 (0.33%) RESTful
13 2 (0.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.70%) Security Posture
2 45 (7.38%) Cyber Threat
3 44 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 37 (6.07%) Cloud Native
5 36 (5.90%) Onboarding
6 29 (4.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 23 (3.77%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (2.95%) Operational Technology
9 15 (2.46%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.30%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.80%) PKI
11 11 (1.80%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.15%) NHS
14 6 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.98%) IoT
14 6 (0.98%) Life Science
14 6 (0.98%) SCADA
15 5 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.51%) Windows
2 42 (6.89%) Linux
3 15 (2.46%) Mac OS
4 13 (2.13%) Unix
4 13 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.31%) VMS
6 6 (0.98%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.33%) CentOS
8 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (18.20%) Incident Response
1 111 (18.20%) SIEM
2 110 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 100 (16.39%) Information Security
4 90 (14.75%) Agile
4 90 (14.75%) Cloud Security
4 90 (14.75%) Risk Management
5 83 (13.61%) Security Operations
6 82 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 65 (10.66%) CI/CD
7 65 (10.66%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 65 (10.66%) Threat Intelligence
8 64 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (9.51%) DevOps
11 57 (9.34%) Identity Access Management
12 56 (9.18%) Vulnerability Management
13 51 (8.36%) AI
14 50 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (7.54%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (8.36%) Python
2 39 (6.39%) PowerShell
3 22 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
4 17 (2.79%) Bash
5 12 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.80%) Java
7 9 (1.48%) C++
7 9 (1.48%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.15%) C#
9 6 (0.98%) SQL
10 4 (0.66%) Rust
11 3 (0.49%) Go
12 2 (0.33%) Haskell
13 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.16%) Bicep
13 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 201 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 171 (28.03%) SC Cleared
3 93 (15.25%) CISSP
4 58 (9.51%) CISM
5 52 (8.52%) Degree
6 36 (5.90%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.10%) CHECK Team Leader
8 24 (3.93%) CHECK Team Member
9 23 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 21 (3.44%) CEH
11 18 (2.95%) GIAC
12 13 (2.13%) OSCP
13 11 (1.80%) CRISC
14 10 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
14 10 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.64%) PMI Certification
15 9 (1.48%) CISA
15 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (19.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 108 (17.70%) NIST
3 46 (7.54%) GDPR
4 35 (5.74%) GRC
5 32 (5.25%) NCSC
6 25 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (3.44%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (1.64%) QA
10 9 (1.48%) COBIT
11 8 (1.31%) SOC 2
12 7 (1.15%) Accessibility
12 7 (1.15%) EU AI Act
12 7 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 7 (1.15%) SLA
13 6 (0.98%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.82%) PMO
15 3 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.98%) Docker
4 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.08%) Terraform
3 24 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (3.28%) SCCM
5 13 (2.13%) Ansible
6 12 (1.97%) CASB
7 6 (0.98%) SCOrch
8 5 (0.82%) AirWatch
8 5 (0.82%) Nessus
8 5 (0.82%) QRadar
9 4 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.66%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.49%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.49%) logstash
10 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.49%) WSUS
11 2 (0.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 127 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 67 (10.98%) Splunk
3 31 (5.08%) CyberArk
4 26 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.93%) CrowdStrike
6 19 (3.11%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.62%) Google
7 16 (2.62%) Tenable
8 13 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.64%) Cisco
10 9 (1.48%) Darktrace
10 9 (1.48%) SAP
11 7 (1.15%) Netskope
11 7 (1.15%) Okta
11 7 (1.15%) Qualys
11 7 (1.15%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.82%) Ariba
12 5 (0.82%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.82%) VMware
12 5 (0.82%) Zscaler