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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 55 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 886 593 584
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.37% 4.48% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 4.84% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 359 379
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £810 £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% -58.46%
75th Percentile £57.13 £58.44 £61.25
90th Percentile £61.10 £62.75 £70.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +60.00% -13.04% -23.33%

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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +3 103 £550 +3.19% 208
West London -14 12 £645 +43.33% 79
East London +2 8 £525 -10.64% 26
South London -12 6 £495 -20.80% 29
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 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.35%) 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 13 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.90%) 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
1 247 (27.88%) Azure
2 159 (17.95%) AWS
3 94 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (10.05%) Entra ID
5 67 (7.56%) GCP
6 53 (5.98%) SaaS
7 44 (4.97%) Azure Sentinel
8 43 (4.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 30 (3.39%) Power Platform
10 22 (2.48%) GitHub
11 21 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.81%) 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%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (1.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.77%) Firewall
2 49 (5.53%) Network Security
3 26 (2.93%) DNS
4 19 (2.14%) VPN
5 12 (1.35%) Internet
5 12 (1.35%) WAN
6 11 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.90%) DHCP
7 8 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.79%) IPsec
9 6 (0.68%) LAN
9 6 (0.68%) NAS
9 6 (0.68%) SAN
9 6 (0.68%) 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 (1.92%) Power BI
2 7 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (0.79%) Big Data
3 6 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.56%) Db2
5 4 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.23%) Metadata
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%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (3.05%) JIRA
2 10 (1.13%) Git
3 9 (1.02%) 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
General
1 272 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 214 (24.15%) Finance
3 95 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.45%) Banking
6 33 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
7 32 (3.61%) Legal
8 26 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 20 (2.26%) Local Government
11 19 (2.14%) Retail
12 18 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
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
1 155 (17.49%) Analyst
2 131 (14.79%) Architect
3 78 (8.80%) Senior
4 77 (8.69%) Security Analyst
5 76 (8.58%) Security Architect
6 67 (7.56%) Lead
7 65 (7.34%) Consultant
8 64 (7.22%) Security Engineer
9 59 (6.66%) Project Manager
9 59 (6.66%) Security Manager
10 54 (6.09%) Business Analyst
11 48 (5.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 43 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 43 (4.85%) Security Consultant
13 32 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 27 (3.05%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 26 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 25 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.60%) IT Manager
18 21 (2.37%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.64%) Terraform
2 14 (1.58%) OAuth
3 12 (1.35%) REST
4 11 (1.24%) SailPoint
5 10 (1.13%) SAML
6 8 (0.90%) OpenID
7 7 (0.79%) FIDO
7 7 (0.79%) LDAP
7 7 (0.79%) Middleware
7 7 (0.79%) WebAuthn
8 5 (0.56%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (0.56%) Django
8 5 (0.56%) JSON
8 5 (0.56%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.34%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.34%) RESTful
10 2 (0.23%) JWT
10 2 (0.23%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.56%) Onboarding
2 62 (7.00%) Security Posture
3 52 (5.87%) Operational Technology
4 34 (3.84%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.84%) Security Operations Centre
5 33 (3.72%) Cyber Threat
6 31 (3.50%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.93%) Cyber Defence
8 19 (2.14%) SCADA
9 18 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.69%) CMDB
12 14 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.47%) PKI
14 12 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.53%) Windows
2 27 (3.05%) Linux
3 17 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.24%) Unix
6 9 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (27.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 162 (18.28%) Risk Management
3 159 (17.95%) Incident Response
4 148 (16.70%) Security Operations
5 143 (16.14%) Vulnerability Management
6 139 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 125 (14.11%) Cloud Security
8 124 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (13.54%) SIEM
10 113 (12.75%) Roadmaps
11 112 (12.64%) Security Architecture
12 108 (12.19%) Agile
13 102 (11.51%) Information Security
14 98 (11.06%) Identity Access Management
15 96 (10.84%) AI
16 90 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
17 85 (9.59%) Data Protection
18 83 (9.37%) Decision-Making
19 74 (8.35%) DevOps
20 68 (7.67%) Cyber Resilience
Programming Languages
1 49 (5.53%) Python
2 46 (5.19%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.60%) SQL
4 17 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (1.58%) Bash
5 14 (1.58%) Bicep
6 6 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.45%) Korn
8 2 (0.23%) C#
8 2 (0.23%) Java
8 2 (0.23%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.11%) C
9 1 (0.11%) Go
9 1 (0.11%) Groovy
9 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 219 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 168 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 155 (17.49%) CISSP
4 99 (11.17%) CISM
5 66 (7.45%) Degree
6 46 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 42 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (4.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (3.72%) PMP
10 32 (3.61%) PMI Certification
11 30 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
12 29 (3.27%) CRISC
13 28 (3.16%) Azure Certification
13 28 (3.16%) GIAC
14 26 (2.93%) CEH
15 22 (2.48%) AWS Certification
16 18 (2.03%) CCSP
16 18 (2.03%) CISA
17 16 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
17 16 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (20.54%) NIST
2 178 (20.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (7.90%) NCSC
4 64 (7.22%) GRC
5 52 (5.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 48 (5.42%) GDPR
7 39 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 33 (3.72%) COBIT
9 29 (3.27%) PCI DSS
10 22 (2.48%) PMO
11 19 (2.14%) NIST 800
11 19 (2.14%) QA
12 15 (1.69%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (1.13%) ITGC
15 8 (0.90%) EU AI Act
15 8 (0.90%) SLA
16 7 (0.79%) Data Quality
16 7 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 58 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.03%) Docker
3 11 (1.24%) 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 30 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.69%) Ansible
4 14 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.68%) CASB
5 6 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.56%) Puppet
6 5 (0.56%) QRadar
7 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.45%) Nessus
7 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.34%) Grafana
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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 234 (26.41%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.42%) Splunk
3 45 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 39 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
5 36 (4.06%) CyberArk
6 25 (2.82%) Tenable
7 24 (2.71%) Qualys
8 23 (2.60%) Google
9 14 (1.58%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.58%) VMware
10 13 (1.47%) Cisco
11 12 (1.35%) Oracle
12 11 (1.24%) Zscaler
13 10 (1.13%) Okta
13 10 (1.13%) Rapid7
14 8 (0.90%) Netskope
15 7 (0.79%) BeyondTrust
16 6 (0.68%) Apple
16 6 (0.68%) Databricks
17 5 (0.56%) Siemens