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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 52 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 897 604 589
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.41% 4.52% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 4.88% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 364 369
10th Percentile £425 £413 £406
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.64%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £38.30 £33.13 £27.62
25th Percentile £42.13 £38.63 £30.03
Median hourly rate £49.50 £47.00 £42.06
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +11.75% -41.99%
75th Percentile £57.13 £58.44 £59.94
90th Percentile £61.10 £62.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £80.00 £46.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year +73.91% -19.30% -22.00%

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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £325 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -3 98 £550 +4.76% 206
West London -16 15 £598 +36.57% 66
East London +6 8 £525 -8.70% 13
South London -8 6 £495 -28.00% 12
North London -2 2 £400 -38.46% 4
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 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.11%) Confluence
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
5 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.22%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 244 (27.20%) Azure
2 159 (17.73%) AWS
3 96 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (10.14%) Entra ID
5 67 (7.47%) GCP
6 53 (5.91%) SaaS
7 44 (4.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 43 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 34 (3.79%) Power Platform
10 20 (2.23%) GitHub
10 20 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.56%) PaaS
13 13 (1.45%) OCI
14 12 (1.34%) IaaS
14 12 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.02%) Firewall
2 54 (6.02%) Network Security
3 24 (2.68%) DNS
4 20 (2.23%) VPN
5 15 (1.67%) WAN
6 13 (1.45%) Internet
7 10 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.00%) LAN
9 8 (0.89%) DHCP
9 8 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (0.89%) IPsec
10 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.56%) DKIM
11 5 (0.56%) DMARC
11 5 (0.56%) Modbus
11 5 (0.56%) NAS
11 5 (0.56%) NGFW
11 5 (0.56%) SAN
11 5 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.34%) Power BI
2 9 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 5 (0.56%) Metadata
6 4 (0.45%) Db2
7 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.22%) Big Data
8 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.22%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (3.01%) JIRA
2 8 (0.89%) GitLab
2 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.78%) Git
4 6 (0.67%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.56%) Snyk
6 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.22%) MSI
7 2 (0.22%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 288 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 208 (23.19%) Finance
3 95 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.58%) Banking
6 39 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 33 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
8 32 (3.57%) Legal
9 25 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.01%) Local Government
10 18 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.01%) Retail
11 17 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.78%) Military
13 15 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.67%) Law
17 5 (0.56%) Aviation
18 4 (0.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 148 (16.50%) Analyst
2 140 (15.61%) Architect
3 79 (8.81%) Consultant
4 78 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 77 (8.58%) Senior
6 74 (8.25%) Security Analyst
7 69 (7.69%) Lead
8 66 (7.36%) Project Manager
9 63 (7.02%) Security Engineer
10 55 (6.13%) Security Manager
11 48 (5.35%) Business Analyst
12 47 (5.24%) Security Consultant
13 45 (5.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 39 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 33 (3.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 30 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 29 (3.23%) IT Manager
18 26 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
19 23 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
20 20 (2.23%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.02%) Terraform
2 15 (1.67%) OAuth
3 13 (1.45%) REST
4 11 (1.23%) SAML
5 9 (1.00%) OpenID
5 9 (1.00%) SailPoint
6 8 (0.89%) Middleware
6 8 (0.89%) WebAuthn
7 7 (0.78%) FIDO
7 7 (0.78%) LDAP
8 6 (0.67%) JSON
8 6 (0.67%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.56%) RESTful
10 4 (0.45%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.45%) JWT
11 3 (0.33%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.33%) Kafka
11 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.33%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 80 (8.92%) Onboarding
2 68 (7.58%) Operational Technology
3 66 (7.36%) Security Posture
4 45 (5.02%) Cyber Threat
5 41 (4.57%) Management Information System
6 36 (4.01%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 27 (3.01%) Cyber Defence
9 24 (2.68%) SCADA
10 23 (2.56%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.78%) CMDB
13 16 (1.78%) PKI
14 14 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.23%) Cyberattack
15 11 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.11%) Industry 4.0
16 10 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.13%) Windows
2 28 (3.12%) Linux
3 19 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.78%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.78%) Unix
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
1 268 (29.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 170 (18.95%) Risk Management
3 157 (17.50%) Incident Response
4 150 (16.72%) Vulnerability Management
5 147 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 144 (16.05%) Security Operations
7 133 (14.83%) Cloud Security
8 129 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 128 (14.27%) Roadmaps
10 120 (13.38%) Security Architecture
11 118 (13.15%) SIEM
12 114 (12.71%) Information Security
13 112 (12.49%) Agile
14 101 (11.26%) Identity Access Management
15 93 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
16 90 (10.03%) AI
17 89 (9.92%) Data Protection
18 86 (9.59%) Decision-Making
19 76 (8.47%) DevOps
19 76 (8.47%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (5.80%) Python
2 49 (5.46%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.56%) SQL
4 17 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (1.67%) Bicep
6 11 (1.23%) Bash
7 6 (0.67%) Korn
7 6 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.22%) C#
9 2 (0.22%) Java
9 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.22%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.11%) C
10 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.11%) Go
10 1 (0.11%) Groovy
10 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 232 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 182 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 155 (17.28%) CISSP
4 103 (11.48%) CISM
5 67 (7.47%) Degree
6 46 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 38 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (4.24%) PMP
8 37 (4.12%) PMI Certification
9 34 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 32 (3.57%) CRISC
11 30 (3.34%) Azure Certification
12 27 (3.01%) AWS Certification
12 27 (3.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 25 (2.79%) GIAC
14 22 (2.45%) CEH
14 22 (2.45%) CISA
15 21 (2.34%) CCSP
16 19 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (1.78%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (21.96%) NIST
2 190 (21.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (9.03%) NCSC
4 73 (8.14%) GRC
5 50 (5.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 44 (4.91%) GDPR
7 37 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 28 (3.12%) COBIT
8 28 (3.12%) PCI DSS
9 23 (2.56%) NIST 800
10 22 (2.45%) PMO
11 18 (2.01%) QA
12 16 (1.78%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.00%) Data Quality
13 9 (1.00%) SLA
14 8 (0.89%) ITGC
14 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.78%) EU AI Act
15 7 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 63 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.78%) Docker
3 13 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.56%) NFS
6 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.33%) vSphere
7 2 (0.22%) Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (2.01%) Ansible
4 12 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.78%) QRadar
6 6 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.56%) Puppet
8 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.45%) Grafana
9 3 (0.33%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.33%) Nessus
9 3 (0.33%) SCCM
10 2 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.22%) MOM
10 2 (0.22%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.11%) Nagios
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 238 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.35%) ServiceNow
2 48 (5.35%) Splunk
3 39 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 34 (3.79%) CyberArk
5 30 (3.34%) Google
6 27 (3.01%) Qualys
7 23 (2.56%) Tenable
8 19 (2.12%) Palo Alto
9 17 (1.90%) Cisco
9 17 (1.90%) VMware
10 14 (1.56%) Oracle
11 13 (1.45%) Rapid7
11 13 (1.45%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.23%) Okta
13 8 (0.89%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (0.89%) Databricks
13 8 (0.89%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.78%) Siemens
15 6 (0.67%) Apple