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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 785 534 565
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.93% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.26% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 334 408
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £484 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -8.21% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
England median daily rate £560 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £33.07 £31.88 £30.04
25th Percentile £48.50 £34.69 £30.09
Median hourly rate £67.50 £46.00 £43.81
Median % change year-on-year +46.74% +5.00% -46.08%
75th Percentile £97.50 £63.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £103.30 - £71.75
England median hourly rate £80.00 £54.75 £75.25
% change year-on-year +46.12% -27.24% +0.33%

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 0 100 £550 +3.19% 82
West London -14 7 £675 +54.29% 52
South London -17 7 £450 -28.00% 16
East London -3 6 £525 -12.50% 23
North London -4 1 £400 -38.46% 9
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 11 (1.40%) Confluence
1 11 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) CMS
3 1 (0.13%) IIS
3 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 227 (28.92%) Azure
2 137 (17.45%) AWS
3 78 (9.94%) Entra ID
4 76 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (7.39%) GCP
6 56 (7.13%) SaaS
7 43 (5.48%) Microsoft Purview
8 39 (4.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 21 (2.68%) Amazon Bedrock
10 19 (2.42%) PaaS
11 17 (2.17%) IaaS
12 16 (2.04%) Azure AI
12 16 (2.04%) GitHub
13 15 (1.91%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (1.40%) Mimecast
17 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 9 (1.15%) OCI
18 8 (1.02%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.88%) Firewall
2 49 (6.24%) Network Security
3 26 (3.31%) DNS
4 17 (2.17%) VPN
5 11 (1.40%) Internet
6 10 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.15%) DHCP
8 8 (1.02%) WAN
9 7 (0.89%) LAN
10 6 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.76%) NGFW
10 6 (0.76%) VLAN
11 5 (0.64%) DKIM
11 5 (0.64%) DMARC
11 5 (0.64%) IPsec
11 5 (0.64%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.64%) NAS
11 5 (0.64%) SAN
12 4 (0.51%) HTTP
12 4 (0.51%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.66%) Power BI
2 11 (1.40%) Big Data
3 7 (0.89%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.64%) Db2
5 4 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (0.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.25%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (2.80%) JIRA
2 8 (1.02%) Git
3 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.64%) GitLab
5 4 (0.51%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.51%) Snyk
6 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.25%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.13%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 219 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 211 (26.88%) Finance
3 84 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.39%) Banking
6 28 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 27 (3.44%) Legal
8 22 (2.80%) Local Government
9 20 (2.55%) Retail
10 14 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.66%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.02%) Military
14 7 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.51%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.51%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 126 (16.05%) Analyst
2 110 (14.01%) Architect
3 73 (9.30%) Security Architect
4 70 (8.92%) Senior
5 60 (7.64%) Project Manager
5 60 (7.64%) Security Engineer
6 57 (7.26%) Consultant
7 55 (7.01%) Lead
8 53 (6.75%) Security Analyst
8 53 (6.75%) Security Manager
9 46 (5.86%) Security Consultant
10 44 (5.61%) Business Analyst
11 39 (4.97%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 36 (4.59%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 34 (4.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 30 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 28 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 26 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 20 (2.55%) Security Specialist
18 19 (2.42%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.78%) SailPoint
2 10 (1.27%) OAuth
3 9 (1.15%) LDAP
3 9 (1.15%) Middleware
4 8 (1.02%) REST
4 8 (1.02%) SAML
5 6 (0.76%) OpenID
6 5 (0.64%) Azure Blueprints
7 3 (0.38%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.38%) Django
7 3 (0.38%) FIDO
7 3 (0.38%) JSON
7 3 (0.38%) RESTful
8 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.25%) NestJS
8 2 (0.25%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.25%) SOAP
8 2 (0.25%) Web Services
9 1 (0.13%) Model Context Protocol
9 1 (0.13%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.79%) Security Posture
2 44 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 34 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 34 (4.33%) Operational Technology
4 28 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.44%) AI Agents
6 24 (3.06%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (2.17%) PKI
8 16 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.91%) SCADA
10 14 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.40%) CMDB
11 11 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
12 10 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.15%) BYOD
13 9 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.73%) Windows
2 24 (3.06%) Linux
3 17 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.40%) Unix
5 8 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.51%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (21.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 122 (15.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 118 (15.03%) Incident Response
4 113 (14.39%) Security Operations
5 112 (14.27%) Vulnerability Management
6 110 (14.01%) Risk Management
7 106 (13.50%) Information Security
8 100 (12.74%) SIEM
9 97 (12.36%) Cloud Security
10 88 (11.21%) Agile
10 88 (11.21%) AI
11 84 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (10.32%) Security Architecture
13 79 (10.06%) Data Protection
13 79 (10.06%) Identity Access Management
14 74 (9.43%) Roadmaps
15 71 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
16 61 (7.77%) ITIL
17 60 (7.64%) Decision-Making
18 57 (7.26%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.37%) Python
2 41 (5.22%) PowerShell
3 26 (3.31%) SQL
4 17 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (1.78%) Bash
6 12 (1.53%) Bicep
7 6 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.64%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.38%) C#
9 3 (0.38%) Korn
9 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.25%) C++
10 2 (0.25%) Java
10 2 (0.25%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.25%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.25%) Rust
11 1 (0.13%) C
11 1 (0.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 185 (23.57%) Security Cleared
2 141 (17.96%) CISSP
3 140 (17.83%) SC Cleared
4 90 (11.46%) CISM
5 62 (7.90%) Degree
6 43 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (5.35%) DV Cleared
8 35 (4.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 29 (3.69%) GIAC
10 27 (3.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 26 (3.31%) CEH
12 24 (3.06%) PMI Certification
13 23 (2.93%) CRISC
13 23 (2.93%) PMP
14 22 (2.80%) CISA
15 17 (2.17%) Azure Certification
16 16 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
17 15 (1.91%) AWS Certification
17 15 (1.91%) CCSP
17 15 (1.91%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (21.53%) NIST
2 141 (17.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (8.15%) GDPR
4 63 (8.03%) GRC
5 57 (7.26%) NCSC
6 46 (5.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 36 (4.59%) COBIT
8 34 (4.33%) PCI DSS
9 33 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (2.80%) QA
11 18 (2.29%) SOC 2
12 17 (2.17%) NIST 800
13 16 (2.04%) ITGC
14 14 (1.78%) PMO
15 12 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (1.02%) EU AI Act
16 8 (1.02%) SLA
17 6 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 5 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 56 (7.13%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.78%) Docker
3 9 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.76%) NFS
5 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Samba
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (4.59%) Terraform
2 19 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.53%) Ansible
6 9 (1.15%) CASB
7 6 (0.76%) QRadar
8 5 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.64%) Puppet
9 4 (0.51%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.38%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.38%) Grafana
10 3 (0.38%) SCCM
11 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Nessus
11 2 (0.25%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 196 (24.97%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.73%) Splunk
3 43 (5.48%) CrowdStrike
4 42 (5.35%) CyberArk
5 35 (4.46%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.93%) Tenable
7 20 (2.55%) Qualys
8 19 (2.42%) Google
8 19 (2.42%) OpenAI
9 17 (2.17%) Foundry
10 15 (1.91%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.40%) Cisco
11 11 (1.40%) Netskope
11 11 (1.40%) VMware
11 11 (1.40%) Zscaler
12 9 (1.15%) Okta
12 9 (1.15%) Oracle
13 8 (1.02%) Rapid7
14 5 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (0.64%) Sybase