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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 609 526 654
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 3.69% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.09% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 324 447
10th Percentile £413 £413 £400
25th Percentile £485 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £584 £620
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.85% -0.80%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £745
90th Percentile £788 £792 £805
England median daily rate £536 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 2
10th Percentile £26.11 £41.29 £53.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £52.88 £55.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £73.60 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.14% +17.76% +47.93%
75th Percentile £72.50 £80.80 £70.63
90th Percentile £90.50 £83.20 £74.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -19.54% -22.07% +11.54%

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 13,159 12,860 16,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.43% 90.25% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 8,233 11,465
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 159 244
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.50 £54.34
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -25 74 £525 -8.70% 94
West London -15 5 £423 -3.43% 29
North London - 5 £650 - 1
East London -7 3 £675 +15.38% 33
South London -19 3 £525 +4.90% 21
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 19 (3.12%) Confluence
2 11 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.48%) Apache
4 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.49%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.16%) Eikon
3 1 (0.16%) Eze OMS
3 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 133 (21.84%) Azure
2 76 (12.48%) AWS
3 56 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (5.75%) Entra ID
5 30 (4.93%) GCP
6 29 (4.76%) GitHub
7 24 (3.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (3.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 17 (2.79%) SaaS
11 16 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.13%) Serverless
13 9 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (0.99%) Azure AKS
16 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.99%) Mimecast
17 5 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 84 (13.79%) Firewall
2 48 (7.88%) Network Security
3 13 (2.13%) DNS
3 13 (2.13%) WAN
4 12 (1.97%) VPN
5 11 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (1.31%) Wireless
8 7 (1.15%) Internet
8 7 (1.15%) SSL
9 6 (0.99%) LAN
9 6 (0.99%) Modbus
10 5 (0.82%) HTTP
11 4 (0.66%) BGP
11 4 (0.66%) OSPF
12 3 (0.49%) Broadband
12 3 (0.49%) DHCP
12 3 (0.49%) SMTP
12 3 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.13%) Power BI
2 8 (1.31%) Big Data
2 8 (1.31%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.66%) Tableau
5 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.33%) Metadata
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.33%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.16%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.16%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (4.60%) JIRA
2 10 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.82%) GitLab
4 4 (0.66%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.49%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.33%) Git
7 1 (0.16%) Ant
7 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.16%) Snyk
7 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 180 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 144 (23.65%) Finance
3 62 (10.18%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.36%) Banking
6 20 (3.28%) Investment Banking
6 20 (3.28%) Local Government
7 18 (2.96%) Legal
8 16 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.81%) Retail
12 10 (1.64%) Military
13 8 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.15%) Law
15 6 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 93 (15.27%) Analyst
2 79 (12.97%) Security Engineer
3 61 (10.02%) Senior
4 58 (9.52%) Consultant
5 50 (8.21%) Architect
6 46 (7.55%) Security Manager
7 45 (7.39%) Security Analyst
8 41 (6.73%) Project Manager
9 38 (6.24%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 37 (6.08%) Security Architect
11 36 (5.91%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 32 (5.25%) Security Consultant
13 31 (5.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 30 (4.93%) Tester
15 28 (4.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 28 (4.60%) Lead
16 25 (4.11%) Penetration Tester
17 23 (3.78%) Business Analyst
18 22 (3.61%) Security Specialist
19 17 (2.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.79%) Kafka
2 13 (2.13%) React
3 12 (1.97%) REST
4 11 (1.81%) SAML
5 10 (1.64%) OpenID
6 8 (1.31%) .NET
6 8 (1.31%) SailPoint
7 7 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (1.15%) OAuth
8 6 (0.99%) LangChain
9 5 (0.82%) Node.js
10 4 (0.66%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.66%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.66%) LDAP
10 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.66%) NestJS
11 3 (0.49%) Jest
11 3 (0.49%) Next.js
11 3 (0.49%) pytest
11 3 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.88%) Cyber Threat
2 45 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 44 (7.22%) Security Posture
4 29 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 27 (4.43%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 24 (3.94%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (2.96%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.63%) Operational Technology
10 15 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.64%) PKI
12 9 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.15%) NHS
15 6 (0.99%) IoT
16 5 (0.82%) BYOD
16 5 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.67%) Windows
2 44 (7.22%) Linux
3 15 (2.46%) Mac OS
4 14 (2.30%) Unix
5 11 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.48%) VMS
7 8 (1.31%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) CentOS
9 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (20.69%) Incident Response
2 115 (18.88%) SIEM
3 99 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 92 (15.11%) Agile
5 91 (14.94%) Cloud Security
6 90 (14.78%) Information Security
7 87 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 87 (14.29%) Security Operations
8 69 (11.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 63 (10.34%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 63 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (10.34%) Threat Intelligence
10 61 (10.02%) Vulnerability Management
11 56 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (9.03%) Identity Access Management
13 53 (8.70%) CI/CD
14 52 (8.54%) Security Architecture
15 51 (8.37%) AI
16 50 (8.21%) DevOps
17 44 (7.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 59 (9.69%) Python
2 44 (7.22%) PowerShell
3 32 (5.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 19 (3.12%) Bash
5 13 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.97%) Java
7 9 (1.48%) C#
7 9 (1.48%) C++
8 8 (1.31%) SQL
9 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.16%) Bicep
10 1 (0.16%) Go
10 1 (0.16%) Haskell
10 1 (0.16%) Rust
10 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 181 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 154 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 94 (15.44%) CISSP
4 57 (9.36%) CISM
5 56 (9.20%) Degree
6 38 (6.24%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.11%) CHECK Team Leader
7 25 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
8 24 (3.94%) CEH
8 24 (3.94%) CHECK Team Member
9 15 (2.46%) GIAC
10 14 (2.30%) OSCP
11 12 (1.97%) CISA
11 12 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.81%) PMI Certification
12 11 (1.81%) PMP
13 10 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
13 10 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
14 9 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (18.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 100 (16.42%) NIST
3 44 (7.22%) GDPR
4 28 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (4.43%) GRC
6 22 (3.61%) PCI DSS
7 21 (3.45%) NCSC
8 14 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (2.13%) QA
10 9 (1.48%) EU AI Act
11 8 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 8 (1.31%) SLA
12 7 (1.15%) Accessibility
12 7 (1.15%) COBIT
12 7 (1.15%) HIPAA
12 7 (1.15%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.66%) ITGC
13 4 (0.66%) PMO
14 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 42 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.66%) Docker
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (5.09%) Terraform
2 21 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (2.96%) SCCM
5 13 (2.13%) Ansible
5 13 (2.13%) CASB
6 7 (1.15%) CSIRT
7 6 (0.99%) Nessus
7 6 (0.99%) QRadar
7 6 (0.99%) SCOrch
8 5 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.66%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.49%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.49%) WSUS
11 2 (0.33%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.33%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.33%) Nmap
11 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.69%) Splunk
3 28 (4.60%) CrowdStrike
4 24 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.12%) CyberArk
5 19 (3.12%) Google
6 17 (2.79%) Palo Alto
6 17 (2.79%) Tenable
7 13 (2.13%) Darktrace
7 13 (2.13%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.81%) SAP
9 10 (1.64%) Cisco
9 10 (1.64%) Oracle
10 7 (1.15%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.99%) Okta
11 6 (0.99%) Qualys
11 6 (0.99%) Rapid7
11 6 (0.99%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.82%) Netskope
12 5 (0.82%) OpenAI