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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 845 576 572
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 4.31% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.66% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 361 389
10th Percentile £425 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £488 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
England median daily rate £563 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £31.72 £33.13 £27.14
25th Percentile £35.75 £38.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +32.98% +56.04% -58.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £58.44 £61.25
90th Percentile £92.45 £62.75 £70.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +49.53% -10.83% -20.00%

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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £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% +1.18%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +8 107 £550 +4.76% 94
West London -10 11 £600 +33.33% 64
East London -2 5 £525 -8.70% 14
South London -16 4 £475 -24.00% 8
North London -4 2 £400 -38.46% 5
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 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.54%) Confluence
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) CMS
4 1 (0.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 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
1 246 (29.11%) Azure
2 146 (17.28%) AWS
3 85 (10.06%) Entra ID
4 84 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (8.05%) GCP
6 57 (6.75%) SaaS
7 41 (4.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 40 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 26 (3.08%) Power Platform
10 18 (2.13%) PaaS
11 17 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.01%) GitHub
11 17 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (1.89%) IaaS
13 14 (1.66%) Amazon Bedrock
13 14 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (1.30%) OCI
15 9 (1.07%) Azure AI
15 9 (1.07%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.57%) Firewall
2 57 (6.75%) Network Security
3 28 (3.31%) DNS
4 19 (2.25%) VPN
5 14 (1.66%) Internet
6 13 (1.54%) WAN
7 12 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.95%) DHCP
8 8 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.83%) IPsec
9 7 (0.83%) LAN
9 7 (0.83%) VLAN
10 6 (0.71%) NAS
10 6 (0.71%) SAN
11 5 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.59%) DKIM
11 5 (0.59%) DMARC
11 5 (0.59%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.59%) NGFW
12 4 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.01%) Power BI
2 11 (1.30%) Big Data
3 6 (0.71%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.59%) Db2
5 4 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (0.47%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.36%) 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%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (3.20%) JIRA
2 8 (0.95%) Git
2 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.83%) GitLab
4 5 (0.59%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.59%) 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
1 253 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 215 (25.44%) Finance
3 87 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.34%) Banking
6 33 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
7 32 (3.79%) Legal
8 27 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (2.72%) Local Government
10 20 (2.37%) Retail
11 19 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.30%) Military
15 9 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.59%) Aviation
17 5 (0.59%) Law
18 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 144 (17.04%) Analyst
2 127 (15.03%) Architect
3 74 (8.76%) Security Architect
4 68 (8.05%) Senior
5 67 (7.93%) Lead
6 65 (7.69%) Security Analyst
7 64 (7.57%) Consultant
8 56 (6.63%) Business Analyst
9 54 (6.39%) Security Engineer
10 53 (6.27%) Project Manager
11 52 (6.15%) Security Manager
12 47 (5.56%) Security Consultant
13 44 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 36 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 30 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 30 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 26 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 21 (2.49%) Cybersecurity Specialist
18 20 (2.37%) Operations Analyst
18 20 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.73%) Terraform
2 13 (1.54%) OAuth
3 12 (1.42%) REST
4 10 (1.18%) SailPoint
5 9 (1.07%) Middleware
6 8 (0.95%) LDAP
6 8 (0.95%) SAML
7 6 (0.71%) FIDO
7 6 (0.71%) OpenID
7 6 (0.71%) WebAuthn
8 5 (0.59%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (0.59%) JSON
9 4 (0.47%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.47%) RESTful
10 3 (0.36%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.36%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.36%) Django
11 2 (0.24%) JWT
11 2 (0.24%) OpenAPI
11 2 (0.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 56 (6.63%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.21%) Operational Technology
4 35 (4.14%) Cloud Native
5 33 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.91%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (2.84%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
8 19 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
9 17 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.89%) CMDB
11 15 (1.78%) SCADA
11 15 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.54%) PKI
14 10 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.18%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.07%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.51%) Windows
2 27 (3.20%) Linux
3 18 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.18%) Unix
6 8 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (25.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 135 (15.98%) Incident Response
3 132 (15.62%) Risk Management
4 126 (14.91%) Security Operations
4 126 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 123 (14.56%) Vulnerability Management
6 122 (14.44%) Cloud Security
7 113 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (13.02%) SIEM
9 101 (11.95%) Information Security
10 99 (11.72%) Roadmaps
11 97 (11.48%) Agile
11 97 (11.48%) Security Architecture
12 93 (11.01%) AI
13 92 (10.89%) Identity Access Management
14 84 (9.94%) Data Protection
15 79 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
16 73 (8.64%) Decision-Making
17 68 (8.05%) DevOps
18 65 (7.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 44 (5.21%) Python
2 43 (5.09%) PowerShell
3 29 (3.43%) SQL
4 17 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (1.78%) Bash
5 15 (1.78%) Bicep
6 6 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.24%) Java
9 2 (0.24%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.12%) C
10 1 (0.12%) C#
10 1 (0.12%) Groovy
10 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 200 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 150 (17.75%) SC Cleared
3 145 (17.16%) CISSP
4 93 (11.01%) CISM
5 68 (8.05%) Degree
6 44 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (5.09%) DV Cleared
8 36 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 31 (3.67%) CEH
9 31 (3.67%) PMP
10 28 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 28 (3.31%) PMI Certification
11 27 (3.20%) GIAC
12 22 (2.60%) CRISC
13 21 (2.49%) Azure Certification
14 19 (2.25%) AWS Certification
15 18 (2.13%) CISA
16 17 (2.01%) CCSP
17 16 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (1.78%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (21.30%) NIST
2 165 (19.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (7.81%) NCSC
4 57 (6.75%) GRC
5 54 (6.39%) GDPR
6 49 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 38 (4.50%) COBIT
8 37 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (3.43%) PCI DSS
10 20 (2.37%) PMO
11 18 (2.13%) QA
12 16 (1.89%) NIST 800
13 15 (1.78%) SOC 2
14 13 (1.54%) ITGC
15 10 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (1.18%) SLA
16 9 (1.07%) EU AI Act
17 7 (0.83%) Data Quality
17 7 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 58 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.42%) Docker
3 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.71%) NFS
4 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) Samba
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (1.42%) Ansible
5 9 (1.07%) CASB
6 6 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.59%) Puppet
7 5 (0.59%) QRadar
8 4 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.47%) Nessus
8 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.36%) Grafana
9 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.36%) SCCM
10 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.24%) MOM
10 2 (0.24%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.12%) Nagios
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 221 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.09%) ServiceNow
3 40 (4.73%) CrowdStrike
4 38 (4.50%) Splunk
5 37 (4.38%) CyberArk
6 23 (2.72%) Google
6 23 (2.72%) Tenable
7 20 (2.37%) Qualys
8 15 (1.78%) Cisco
9 14 (1.66%) Zscaler
10 13 (1.54%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.54%) VMware
11 12 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.18%) Oracle
13 9 (1.07%) Foundry
13 9 (1.07%) Rapid7
14 8 (0.95%) Netskope
14 8 (0.95%) Okta
15 6 (0.71%) BeyondTrust
15 6 (0.71%) Databricks