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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 69 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 693 454 561
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.77% 3.70% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 4.01% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 276 421
10th Percentile £413 £363 £406
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £725
90th Percentile £838 £775 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £589
% change year-on-year - -6.62% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £26.11 £50.36 £30.02
25th Percentile £30.72 £57.28 £30.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £73.60 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +144.36% -56.97%
75th Percentile £90.63 £80.80 £53.19
90th Percentile £100.83 £82.24 £67.02
England median hourly rate £82.50 £73.60 £83.41
% change year-on-year +12.09% -11.76% +12.73%

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 16,293 11,314 15,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.27% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,585 11,084
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 194 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.57 £63.60 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +7 98 £525 -12.50% 141
South London -22 5 £165 -65.26% 12
East London -12 4 £715 +19.17% 16
West London -26 3 £750 +66.67% 36
North London -4 1 - - 15
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 13 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.73%) Confluence
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 206 (29.73%) Azure
2 109 (15.73%) AWS
3 80 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (8.37%) GCP
5 55 (7.94%) Entra ID
6 45 (6.49%) SaaS
7 41 (5.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 27 (3.90%) GitHub
10 18 (2.60%) Amazon Bedrock
11 17 (2.45%) Azure AI
11 17 (2.45%) PaaS
12 16 (2.31%) Mimecast
13 14 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.02%) IaaS
14 13 (1.88%) OpenShift
14 13 (1.88%) Power Platform
15 12 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.37%) Firewall
2 44 (6.35%) Network Security
3 19 (2.74%) DNS
4 11 (1.59%) VPN
5 9 (1.30%) Internet
5 9 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.01%) LAN
6 7 (1.01%) NGFW
6 7 (1.01%) VLAN
6 7 (1.01%) WAN
7 6 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.72%) DHCP
8 5 (0.72%) DKIM
8 5 (0.72%) DMARC
9 4 (0.58%) BGP
9 4 (0.58%) Broadband
10 3 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
10 3 (0.43%) OSPF
10 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.44%) Power BI
2 9 (1.30%) Big Data
3 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (0.29%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.14%) DB2
6 1 (0.14%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (3.17%) Jenkins
1 22 (3.17%) JIRA
2 7 (1.01%) Git
3 3 (0.43%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.14%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 190 (27.42%) Finance
2 177 (25.54%) Social Skills
3 76 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.22%) Banking
6 36 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.75%) Local Government
9 24 (3.46%) Legal
10 17 (2.45%) Retail
11 12 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.15%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.87%) Military
18 4 (0.58%) Aviation
18 4 (0.58%) Law
18 4 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (15.15%) Architect
2 89 (12.84%) Analyst
3 63 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 59 (8.51%) Project Manager
5 56 (8.08%) Senior
6 55 (7.94%) Security Engineer
7 49 (7.07%) Lead
8 48 (6.93%) Consultant
8 48 (6.93%) Security Manager
9 41 (5.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 40 (5.77%) Security Consultant
11 38 (5.48%) Business Analyst
12 33 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 33 (4.76%) Security Analyst
13 32 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 32 (4.62%) Security Specialist
14 31 (4.47%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 28 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 28 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 23 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.60%) SAML
2 17 (2.45%) OpenID
3 16 (2.31%) LDAP
4 12 (1.73%) SailPoint
5 8 (1.15%) OAuth
5 8 (1.15%) REST
6 5 (0.72%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (0.58%) Middleware
7 4 (0.58%) NestJS
7 4 (0.58%) RESTful
8 3 (0.43%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.43%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.43%) Django
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.43%) Web Services
9 2 (0.29%) .NET
9 2 (0.29%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (0.29%) Next.js
9 2 (0.29%) Node.js
9 2 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.95%) Security Posture
2 48 (6.93%) Cloud Native
3 40 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 28 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.90%) Operational Technology
6 23 (3.32%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
8 16 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
9 15 (2.16%) PKI
10 12 (1.73%) SCADA
11 11 (1.59%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.15%) CMDB
14 8 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
15 7 (1.01%) BYOD
15 7 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (1.01%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.63%) Windows
2 20 (2.89%) Linux
3 15 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.01%) Unix
4 7 (1.01%) VMS
5 5 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 103 (14.86%) Information Security
3 100 (14.43%) Risk Management
4 98 (14.14%) Incident Response
4 98 (14.14%) SIEM
5 96 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 90 (12.99%) Cloud Security
7 86 (12.41%) Vulnerability Management
8 81 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (11.54%) AI
10 79 (11.40%) Security Operations
11 72 (10.39%) Agile
12 70 (10.10%) Identity Access Management
13 68 (9.81%) Security Architecture
14 67 (9.67%) DevOps
15 66 (9.52%) Data Protection
16 61 (8.80%) CI/CD
17 59 (8.51%) Threat Modelling
18 56 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
18 56 (8.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (6.35%) Python
2 32 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
3 19 (2.74%) SQL
4 13 (1.88%) Bash
5 9 (1.30%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.01%) Bicep
7 4 (0.58%) Rust
7 4 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (0.43%) C#
8 3 (0.43%) Go
8 3 (0.43%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.29%) C++
9 2 (0.29%) Haskell
9 2 (0.29%) Java
10 1 (0.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 175 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 140 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 120 (17.32%) CISSP
4 78 (11.26%) CISM
5 60 (8.66%) Degree
6 34 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 24 (3.46%) DV Cleared
9 21 (3.03%) GIAC
10 20 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 19 (2.74%) CRISC
12 18 (2.60%) CEH
12 18 (2.60%) CISA
13 16 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (2.02%) PMI Certification
15 13 (1.88%) CCSP
16 12 (1.73%) Azure Certification
16 12 (1.73%) PMP
17 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (1.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (21.21%) NIST
2 130 (18.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (8.37%) GDPR
4 53 (7.65%) NCSC
5 48 (6.93%) GRC
6 39 (5.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 34 (4.91%) COBIT
8 29 (4.18%) PCI DSS
9 28 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 16 (2.31%) QA
10 16 (2.31%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.88%) ITGC
11 13 (1.88%) NIST 800
12 9 (1.30%) PMO
12 9 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (1.01%) SLA
14 5 (0.72%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.58%) SOC 1
System Software
1 41 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.44%) Docker
2 10 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 36 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.62%) Terraform
3 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (2.31%) Ansible
5 10 (1.44%) CASB
5 10 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.01%) AirWatch
7 4 (0.58%) SCCM
8 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.43%) Grafana
8 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.43%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) Nessus
9 2 (0.29%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.29%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.14%) logstash
10 1 (0.14%) Salt
10 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 168 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.36%) Splunk
3 42 (6.06%) CyberArk
4 37 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.46%) Google
7 20 (2.89%) OpenAI
8 18 (2.60%) Tenable
9 17 (2.45%) Foundry
10 16 (2.31%) Netskope
11 14 (2.02%) Palo Alto
11 14 (2.02%) Qualys
12 9 (1.30%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.30%) Zscaler
13 8 (1.15%) Okta
14 6 (0.87%) Cisco
14 6 (0.87%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.72%) VMware
16 4 (0.58%) OneTrust
16 4 (0.58%) Progress