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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 63 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 832 555 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 4.09% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.43% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 350 391
10th Percentile £419 £375 £400
25th Percentile £494 £488 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -8.29% -3.23%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £706
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £563 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.42% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £33.07 £31.88 £27.14
25th Percentile £48.50 £34.69 £30.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £46.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +46.74% +52.72% -62.93%
75th Percentile £97.50 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £103.30 £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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +5 106 £550 +4.76% 112
West London -12 10 £550 +22.22% 61
East London -1 7 £620 +5.98% 28
South London -15 4 £475 -24.00% 22
North London -4 1 £400 -38.46% 13
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
1 244 (29.33%) Azure
2 147 (17.67%) AWS
3 88 (10.58%) Entra ID
4 85 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (8.05%) GCP
6 60 (7.21%) SaaS
7 44 (5.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 41 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (2.76%) Power Platform
10 21 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
11 19 (2.28%) PaaS
12 18 (2.16%) GitHub
13 17 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.04%) IaaS
13 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (1.80%) Azure AI
15 14 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (1.08%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.08%) Mimecast
16 9 (1.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.45%) Firewall
2 54 (6.49%) Network Security
3 29 (3.49%) DNS
4 19 (2.28%) VPN
5 13 (1.56%) Internet
6 11 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.20%) WAN
8 9 (1.08%) DHCP
9 7 (0.84%) LAN
10 6 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.72%) NAS
10 6 (0.72%) SAN
10 6 (0.72%) VLAN
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%) HTTP
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
1 243 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 212 (25.48%) Finance
3 91 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.09%) Banking
6 30 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
6 30 (3.61%) Legal
7 28 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (2.76%) Local Government
9 22 (2.64%) Retail
10 17 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.96%) Military
14 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (16.35%) Analyst
2 121 (14.54%) Architect
3 75 (9.01%) Security Architect
4 72 (8.65%) Senior
5 62 (7.45%) Consultant
6 61 (7.33%) Lead
7 60 (7.21%) Project Manager
8 59 (7.09%) Security Analyst
9 57 (6.85%) Security Engineer
10 54 (6.49%) Security Manager
11 51 (6.13%) Business Analyst
12 47 (5.65%) Security Consultant
13 44 (5.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 38 (4.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 31 (3.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 30 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 29 (3.49%) Cybersecurity Specialist
18 26 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
19 21 (2.52%) Security Specialist
20 20 (2.40%) Operations Analyst
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 67 (8.05%) Security Posture
2 53 (6.37%) Onboarding
3 42 (5.05%) Operational Technology
4 34 (4.09%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 19 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.04%) PKI
10 16 (1.92%) CMDB
10 16 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
10 16 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.92%) SCADA
11 14 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.08%) BYOD
14 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
2 129 (15.50%) Incident Response
2 129 (15.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 123 (14.78%) Cloud Security
4 121 (14.54%) Risk Management
5 120 (14.42%) Security Operations
6 114 (13.70%) Vulnerability Management
7 112 (13.46%) Information Security
8 108 (12.98%) SIEM
9 104 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 98 (11.78%) AI
10 98 (11.78%) Security Architecture
11 95 (11.42%) Identity Access Management
12 91 (10.94%) Agile
13 90 (10.82%) Roadmaps
14 83 (9.98%) Data Protection
15 82 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
16 69 (8.29%) DevOps
17 63 (7.57%) Decision-Making
18 62 (7.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 46 (5.53%) Python
2 43 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.61%) 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
2 152 (18.27%) CISSP
3 143 (17.19%) SC Cleared
4 98 (11.78%) CISM
5 70 (8.41%) Degree
6 45 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (4.93%) DV Cleared
8 37 (4.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 30 (3.61%) PMP
10 29 (3.49%) CEH
10 29 (3.49%) GIAC
10 29 (3.49%) PMI Certification
11 28 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
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
1 187 (22.48%) NIST
2 161 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (7.45%) NCSC
4 60 (7.21%) GRC
5 57 (6.85%) GDPR
6 48 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 37 (4.45%) 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 61 (7.33%) 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%) Nagios
Vendors
1 218 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.05%) CrowdStrike
3 40 (4.81%) CyberArk
3 40 (4.81%) Splunk
4 38 (4.57%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.76%) Google
5 23 (2.76%) Tenable
6 19 (2.28%) Qualys
7 18 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.92%) Foundry
9 14 (1.68%) Cisco
9 14 (1.68%) Zscaler
10 13 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.32%) VMware
12 10 (1.20%) Oracle
13 9 (1.08%) Netskope
13 9 (1.08%) Okta
13 9 (1.08%) Rapid7
14 6 (0.72%) Apple
14 6 (0.72%) BeyondTrust