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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 55 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 887 607 592
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.39% 4.51% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.87% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 370 378
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £511
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 £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
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 £47.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +70.21% -18.26% -21.31%

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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +4 103 £550 +3.19% 225
West London -16 14 £550 +22.22% 75
East London +3 8 £525 -8.70% 24
South London -9 6 £495 -28.00% 24
North London -2 2 £400 -38.46% 8
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 17 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.13%) Confluence
3 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) 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
1 248 (27.96%) Azure
2 158 (17.81%) AWS
3 95 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (10.15%) Entra ID
5 65 (7.33%) GCP
6 52 (5.86%) SaaS
7 44 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
8 43 (4.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 30 (3.38%) Power Platform
10 22 (2.48%) GitHub
11 21 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.80%) PaaS
14 14 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (1.58%) IaaS
15 11 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.24%) OCI
16 10 (1.13%) AWS Control Tower
16 10 (1.13%) Google Workspace
16 10 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.22%) Firewall
2 51 (5.75%) Network Security
3 27 (3.04%) DNS
4 20 (2.25%) VPN
5 13 (1.47%) Internet
5 13 (1.47%) WAN
6 12 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.90%) DHCP
7 8 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.79%) IPsec
8 7 (0.79%) LAN
9 6 (0.68%) NAS
9 6 (0.68%) SAN
10 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.56%) DKIM
10 5 (0.56%) DMARC
10 5 (0.56%) HTTP
10 5 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.56%) VLAN
10 5 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.92%) Power BI
2 9 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.56%) Db2
4 5 (0.56%) Metadata
5 4 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (0.45%) Big Data
6 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.23%) 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 25 (2.82%) JIRA
2 10 (1.13%) Git
3 9 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.90%) GitLab
5 6 (0.68%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.56%) Snyk
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.23%) MSI
8 2 (0.23%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 273 (30.78%) Social Skills
2 207 (23.34%) Finance
3 99 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.33%) Banking
6 34 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (3.72%) Legal
8 32 (3.61%) Manufacturing
9 26 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.59%) Local Government
11 19 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.03%) Retail
13 17 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.69%) Military
15 13 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.56%) Aviation
18 4 (0.45%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 152 (17.14%) Analyst
2 136 (15.33%) Architect
3 78 (8.79%) Security Architect
4 77 (8.68%) Senior
5 76 (8.57%) Security Analyst
6 69 (7.78%) Consultant
7 68 (7.67%) Lead
8 63 (7.10%) Security Engineer
9 59 (6.65%) Project Manager
9 59 (6.65%) Security Manager
10 51 (5.75%) Business Analyst
11 48 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 43 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 43 (4.85%) Security Consultant
13 30 (3.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 28 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 26 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 25 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (2.71%) IT Manager
18 21 (2.37%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.64%) Terraform
2 15 (1.69%) OAuth
3 13 (1.47%) REST
4 11 (1.24%) SailPoint
4 11 (1.24%) SAML
5 9 (1.01%) OpenID
6 8 (0.90%) LDAP
6 8 (0.90%) Middleware
7 7 (0.79%) FIDO
7 7 (0.79%) WebAuthn
8 6 (0.68%) 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 71 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 63 (7.10%) Security Posture
3 59 (6.65%) Operational Technology
4 40 (4.51%) Cyber Threat
5 35 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 34 (3.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 33 (3.72%) Cloud Native
8 27 (3.04%) Cyber Defence
9 22 (2.48%) SCADA
10 19 (2.14%) Data Centre
10 19 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.92%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.69%) CMDB
12 15 (1.69%) PKI
13 14 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.24%) Cyber Security Posture
14 11 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.86%) Windows
2 28 (3.16%) Linux
3 17 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.24%) 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 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (27.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 163 (18.38%) Risk Management
3 158 (17.81%) Incident Response
4 148 (16.69%) Vulnerability Management
5 147 (16.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 144 (16.23%) Security Operations
7 126 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (14.09%) Cloud Security
9 116 (13.08%) Security Architecture
9 116 (13.08%) SIEM
10 112 (12.63%) Roadmaps
11 108 (12.18%) Agile
12 101 (11.39%) Information Security
13 100 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
14 94 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
15 89 (10.03%) AI
16 88 (9.92%) Decision-Making
17 86 (9.70%) Data Protection
18 76 (8.57%) DevOps
19 72 (8.12%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (5.52%) Python
2 48 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.48%) SQL
4 17 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (1.58%) Bicep
6 13 (1.47%) Bash
7 6 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.45%) Korn
9 2 (0.23%) C#
9 2 (0.23%) Java
9 2 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.11%) C
10 1 (0.11%) Go
10 1 (0.11%) Groovy
10 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 227 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 176 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 156 (17.59%) CISSP
4 101 (11.39%) CISM
5 67 (7.55%) Degree
6 47 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 37 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (4.17%) PMP
8 36 (4.06%) PMI Certification
9 32 (3.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 31 (3.49%) CRISC
11 29 (3.27%) Azure Certification
11 29 (3.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 28 (3.16%) GIAC
13 25 (2.82%) CEH
14 23 (2.59%) AWS Certification
15 19 (2.14%) CCSP
15 19 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (1.92%) CISA
17 16 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (21.65%) NIST
2 187 (21.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 77 (8.68%) NCSC
4 67 (7.55%) GRC
5 54 (6.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 49 (5.52%) GDPR
7 40 (4.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 30 (3.38%) COBIT
9 28 (3.16%) PCI DSS
10 22 (2.48%) PMO
11 21 (2.37%) NIST 800
12 19 (2.14%) QA
13 16 (1.80%) SOC 2
14 11 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (1.13%) ITGC
16 9 (1.01%) SLA
17 8 (0.90%) EU AI Act
18 7 (0.79%) Data Quality
18 7 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 59 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.03%) Docker
3 12 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) NFS
4 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.34%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) Firmware
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) 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 32 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.80%) Ansible
4 14 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
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 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.23%) MOM
9 2 (0.23%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
10 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 231 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.41%) Splunk
3 45 (5.07%) ServiceNow
4 38 (4.28%) CrowdStrike
5 34 (3.83%) CyberArk
6 27 (3.04%) Qualys
7 25 (2.82%) Tenable
8 24 (2.71%) Google
9 17 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.69%) VMware
11 14 (1.58%) Cisco
12 13 (1.47%) Zscaler
13 12 (1.35%) Oracle
14 11 (1.24%) Rapid7
15 9 (1.01%) Okta
16 7 (0.79%) Netskope
17 6 (0.68%) Apple
17 6 (0.68%) BeyondTrust
17 6 (0.68%) Databricks
17 6 (0.68%) Siemens