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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 53 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 894 601 588
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 4.47% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 4.83% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 365 380
10th Percentile £426 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £780
England median daily rate £554 £550 £584
% change year-on-year +0.80% -5.78% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £38.30 £33.13 £27.14
25th Percentile £42.13 £38.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £47.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +56.04% -57.73%
75th Percentile £57.13 £58.44 £61.25
90th Percentile £61.10 £62.75 £70.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +64.95% -15.65% -21.57%

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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £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 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 0 101 £550 +3.19% 220
West London -16 14 £550 +22.22% 78
East London +2 8 £525 -10.64% 25
South London -9 6 £495 -20.80% 27
North London -2 2 £400 -38.46% 7
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 16 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.34%) Confluence
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (27.96%) Azure
2 160 (17.90%) AWS
3 95 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (10.18%) Entra ID
5 68 (7.61%) GCP
6 53 (5.93%) SaaS
7 44 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 43 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 30 (3.36%) Power Platform
10 22 (2.46%) GitHub
11 21 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.79%) PaaS
14 14 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (1.57%) IaaS
15 11 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.23%) OCI
16 10 (1.12%) AWS Control Tower
16 10 (1.12%) Google Workspace
16 10 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.05%) Firewall
2 51 (5.70%) Network Security
3 28 (3.13%) DNS
4 21 (2.35%) VPN
5 13 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.34%) Internet
6 12 (1.34%) WAN
7 8 (0.89%) DHCP
7 8 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.78%) IPsec
9 6 (0.67%) LAN
9 6 (0.67%) NAS
9 6 (0.67%) SAN
9 6 (0.67%) VLAN
10 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.56%) DKIM
10 5 (0.56%) DMARC
10 5 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.56%) NGFW
10 5 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.90%) Power BI
2 9 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.67%) Big Data
3 6 (0.67%) DynamoDB
4 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.56%) Db2
5 4 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (0.45%) Metadata
6 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (3.13%) JIRA
2 10 (1.12%) Git
3 9 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.89%) GitLab
5 6 (0.67%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.56%) Snyk
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 273 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 212 (23.71%) Finance
3 98 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.38%) Banking
6 34 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (3.69%) Legal
8 29 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 26 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.57%) Local Government
11 18 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.01%) Retail
12 17 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.68%) Military
14 13 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.56%) Aviation
17 4 (0.45%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (17.34%) Analyst
2 134 (14.99%) Architect
3 78 (8.72%) Security Architect
4 77 (8.61%) Security Analyst
4 77 (8.61%) Senior
5 70 (7.83%) Lead
6 67 (7.49%) Consultant
7 64 (7.16%) Security Engineer
8 62 (6.94%) Project Manager
9 61 (6.82%) Security Manager
10 54 (6.04%) Business Analyst
11 48 (5.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 45 (5.03%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 43 (4.81%) Security Consultant
14 32 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 27 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 26 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 25 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
18 23 (2.57%) IT Manager
19 21 (2.35%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.59%) Terraform
2 15 (1.68%) OAuth
3 12 (1.34%) REST
4 11 (1.23%) SailPoint
4 11 (1.23%) SAML
5 9 (1.01%) OpenID
6 8 (0.89%) LDAP
6 8 (0.89%) Middleware
7 7 (0.78%) FIDO
7 7 (0.78%) WebAuthn
8 6 (0.67%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.56%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.56%) Django
9 5 (0.56%) JSON
10 4 (0.45%) RESTful
11 3 (0.34%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.34%) JWT
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.61%) Onboarding
2 62 (6.94%) Security Posture
3 56 (6.26%) Operational Technology
4 35 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
5 34 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.80%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (3.47%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
8 19 (2.13%) SCADA
9 18 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.68%) CMDB
12 14 (1.57%) PKI
12 14 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.34%) Cyber Security Posture
14 11 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.59%) Windows
2 27 (3.02%) Linux
3 17 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.68%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.23%) Unix
6 9 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 163 (18.23%) Risk Management
3 158 (17.67%) Incident Response
4 148 (16.55%) Security Operations
5 146 (16.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 143 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 127 (14.21%) Cloud Security
8 126 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (13.42%) SIEM
10 116 (12.98%) Security Architecture
11 113 (12.64%) Roadmaps
12 110 (12.30%) Agile
13 102 (11.41%) Information Security
14 99 (11.07%) Identity Access Management
15 95 (10.63%) AI
16 93 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
17 88 (9.84%) Decision-Making
18 86 (9.62%) Data Protection
19 75 (8.39%) DevOps
20 71 (7.94%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (5.48%) Python
2 48 (5.37%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.46%) SQL
4 17 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (1.57%) Bash
5 14 (1.57%) Bicep
6 6 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.45%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) C#
8 2 (0.22%) Java
8 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.22%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.11%) C
9 1 (0.11%) Go
9 1 (0.11%) Groovy
9 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 222 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 170 (19.02%) SC Cleared
3 159 (17.79%) CISSP
4 102 (11.41%) CISM
5 67 (7.49%) Degree
6 47 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 43 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (4.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 37 (4.14%) PMP
9 36 (4.03%) PMI Certification
10 30 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (3.36%) CRISC
11 28 (3.13%) Azure Certification
11 28 (3.13%) GIAC
12 26 (2.91%) CEH
13 22 (2.46%) AWS Certification
14 19 (2.13%) CCSP
15 18 (2.01%) CISA
16 17 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (21.14%) NIST
2 188 (21.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (8.39%) NCSC
4 65 (7.27%) GRC
5 54 (6.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 51 (5.70%) GDPR
7 41 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 32 (3.58%) COBIT
9 29 (3.24%) PCI DSS
10 22 (2.46%) PMO
11 20 (2.24%) NIST 800
12 19 (2.13%) QA
13 17 (1.90%) SOC 2
14 11 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (1.12%) ITGC
16 8 (0.89%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.89%) SLA
17 7 (0.78%) Data Quality
17 7 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 60 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.01%) Docker
3 12 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.67%) NFS
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.34%) vSphere
6 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.11%) Samba
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.68%) Ansible
4 14 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.56%) CASB
6 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.56%) Puppet
6 5 (0.56%) QRadar
7 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.45%) Grafana
7 4 (0.45%) Nessus
8 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.34%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.22%) MOM
9 2 (0.22%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 237 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.48%) Splunk
3 45 (5.03%) ServiceNow
4 39 (4.36%) CrowdStrike
5 36 (4.03%) CyberArk
6 25 (2.80%) Qualys
6 25 (2.80%) Tenable
7 24 (2.68%) Google
8 16 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.68%) VMware
10 13 (1.45%) Cisco
10 13 (1.45%) Zscaler
11 12 (1.34%) Oracle
12 10 (1.12%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.01%) Okta
14 8 (0.89%) Netskope
15 7 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
16 6 (0.67%) Apple
16 6 (0.67%) Databricks
16 6 (0.67%) Siemens