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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 62 68
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 832 560 558
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 4.14% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.48% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 350 394
10th Percentile £420 £375 £400
25th Percentile £493 £488 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -8.29% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £563 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £31.72 £31.88 £27.14
25th Percentile £35.75 £34.69 £30.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.87% +52.72% -62.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £92.45 £62.95 £70.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £56.25 £66.25
% change year-on-year +42.22% -15.09% -12.45%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +6 105 £550 +4.76% 108
West London -13 10 £550 +22.22% 59
East London -3 7 £620 +6.90% 30
South London -15 4 £475 -24.00% 20
North London -4 1 £400 -38.46% 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 14 (1.68%) Confluence
2 13 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) CMS
4 1 (0.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 243 (29.21%) Azure
2 146 (17.55%) AWS
3 87 (10.46%) Entra ID
4 83 (9.98%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (8.05%) GCP
6 61 (7.33%) SaaS
7 44 (5.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 41 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (2.76%) Power Platform
10 19 (2.28%) PaaS
11 18 (2.16%) Amazon Bedrock
11 18 (2.16%) GitHub
12 17 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.04%) IaaS
12 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.56%) Azure AI
15 9 (1.08%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.08%) Mimecast
15 9 (1.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.57%) Firewall
2 55 (6.61%) Network Security
3 29 (3.49%) DNS
4 19 (2.28%) VPN
5 13 (1.56%) Internet
6 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.20%) WAN
8 9 (1.08%) DHCP
9 7 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.84%) LAN
9 7 (0.84%) VLAN
10 6 (0.72%) NAS
10 6 (0.72%) SAN
11 5 (0.60%) DKIM
11 5 (0.60%) DMARC
11 5 (0.60%) IPsec
11 5 (0.60%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.60%) NGFW
12 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.80%) Power BI
2 11 (1.32%) Big Data
3 7 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.60%) Db2
5 4 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.36%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.12%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (3.13%) JIRA
2 8 (0.96%) Git
2 8 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.84%) GitLab
4 5 (0.60%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.60%) Snyk
5 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
General
1 245 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 212 (25.48%) Finance
3 92 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.09%) Banking
6 30 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.37%) Legal
8 23 (2.76%) Local Government
9 22 (2.64%) Retail
10 18 (2.16%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.96%) Military
15 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 139 (16.71%) Analyst
2 121 (14.54%) Architect
3 75 (9.01%) Security Architect
4 73 (8.77%) Senior
5 62 (7.45%) Lead
6 61 (7.33%) Consultant
7 60 (7.21%) Security Analyst
8 56 (6.73%) Project Manager
8 56 (6.73%) Security Engineer
9 53 (6.37%) Business Analyst
10 52 (6.25%) Security Manager
11 46 (5.53%) Security Consultant
12 44 (5.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 36 (4.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 30 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 29 (3.49%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 27 (3.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 26 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
18 20 (2.40%) Operations Analyst
18 20 (2.40%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.56%) SailPoint
2 12 (1.44%) OAuth
2 12 (1.44%) REST
3 10 (1.20%) Middleware
4 8 (0.96%) LDAP
5 7 (0.84%) OpenID
5 7 (0.84%) SAML
6 5 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
6 5 (0.60%) FIDO
6 5 (0.60%) JSON
6 5 (0.60%) WebAuthn
7 4 (0.48%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.48%) RESTful
8 3 (0.36%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.36%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.36%) Django
9 2 (0.24%) JWT
9 2 (0.24%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.24%) SOAP
9 2 (0.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.29%) Security Posture
2 55 (6.61%) Onboarding
3 42 (5.05%) Operational Technology
4 34 (4.09%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.73%) Security Operations Centre
6 28 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (2.04%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.92%) CMDB
10 16 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
10 16 (1.92%) PKI
10 16 (1.92%) SCADA
11 15 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.08%) BYOD
15 9 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.77%) Windows
2 27 (3.25%) Linux
3 15 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.32%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.32%) Unix
5 8 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.48%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (24.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 130 (15.63%) Incident Response
3 128 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 123 (14.78%) Cloud Security
5 122 (14.66%) Security Operations
6 119 (14.30%) Risk Management
7 114 (13.70%) Vulnerability Management
8 112 (13.46%) Information Security
9 110 (13.22%) SIEM
10 105 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (11.78%) Security Architecture
12 96 (11.54%) AI
12 96 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
13 93 (11.18%) Agile
14 91 (10.94%) Roadmaps
15 84 (10.10%) Data Protection
16 82 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
17 69 (8.29%) DevOps
18 65 (7.81%) Decision-Making
19 64 (7.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.65%) Python
2 44 (5.29%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.73%) SQL
4 16 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (1.80%) Bash
6 14 (1.68%) Bicep
7 6 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.36%) Korn
10 2 (0.24%) C#
10 2 (0.24%) Java
10 2 (0.24%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.12%) C
11 1 (0.12%) Groovy
11 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 191 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 153 (18.39%) CISSP
3 143 (17.19%) SC Cleared
4 99 (11.90%) CISM
5 72 (8.65%) Degree
6 45 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (4.81%) DV Cleared
8 37 (4.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 31 (3.73%) PMP
10 29 (3.49%) CEH
10 29 (3.49%) GIAC
11 28 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 28 (3.37%) PMI Certification
12 26 (3.13%) CRISC
13 20 (2.40%) Azure Certification
13 20 (2.40%) CISA
14 17 (2.04%) AWS Certification
14 17 (2.04%) CCSP
15 16 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
16 15 (1.80%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (22.60%) NIST
2 161 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (7.57%) NCSC
4 59 (7.09%) GRC
5 58 (6.97%) GDPR
6 48 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 38 (4.57%) COBIT
8 34 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 31 (3.73%) PCI DSS
10 20 (2.40%) QA
11 18 (2.16%) NIST 800
12 17 (2.04%) PMO
12 17 (2.04%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.92%) ITGC
14 12 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.96%) EU AI Act
16 7 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.84%) SLA
17 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 60 (7.21%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.80%) Docker
3 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) NFS
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.12%) Samba
Systems Management
1 40 (4.81%) Terraform
2 21 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.56%) Ansible
6 9 (1.08%) CASB
7 6 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.60%) Puppet
8 5 (0.60%) QRadar
9 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.48%) Nessus
9 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.36%) Grafana
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) SCCM
11 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.24%) MOM
11 2 (0.24%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 220 (26.44%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.05%) CrowdStrike
3 40 (4.81%) CyberArk
4 39 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 39 (4.69%) Splunk
5 23 (2.76%) Google
5 23 (2.76%) Tenable
6 20 (2.40%) Qualys
7 15 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.68%) Cisco
8 14 (1.68%) Zscaler
9 13 (1.56%) Foundry
9 13 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 11 (1.32%) VMware
11 10 (1.20%) Oracle
12 9 (1.08%) Netskope
12 9 (1.08%) Okta
12 9 (1.08%) Rapid7
13 6 (0.72%) Apple
13 6 (0.72%) BeyondTrust