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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 82 59
Rank change year-on-year +12 -23 +3
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 623 426 623
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.88% 3.26% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.59% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 261 457
10th Percentile £400 £313 £424
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £538 £620
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -13.31% -0.80%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £743
90th Percentile £810 £788 £825
England median daily rate £539 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -2.05% -6.42% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 1
10th Percentile £26.11 £48.88 -
25th Percentile £27.58 £56.20 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £73.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +40.19% -18.60%
75th Percentile £94.38 £82.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £83.20 -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £73.60 £72.91
% change year-on-year -38.23% +0.95% +11.31%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -12 83 £525 -8.70% 69
South London -26 7 £339 -28.68% 13
West London -16 6 £423 -0.59% 29
North London +3 4 - - 14
East London -3 3 £717 +13.81% 33
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 (2.73%) Confluence
2 15 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.93%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.48%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (25.04%) Azure
2 93 (14.93%) AWS
3 68 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (6.74%) Entra ID
5 32 (5.14%) GCP
6 30 (4.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (3.85%) SaaS
8 23 (3.69%) GitHub
9 18 (2.89%) Power Platform
10 16 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (2.25%) Azure AI
13 13 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (2.09%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.93%) Amazon Bedrock
14 12 (1.93%) PaaS
15 10 (1.61%) Mimecast
16 8 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (1.28%) IaaS
16 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 79 (12.68%) Firewall
2 41 (6.58%) Network Security
3 12 (1.93%) WAN
4 11 (1.77%) DNS
5 10 (1.61%) VPN
6 9 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.12%) Wireless
8 6 (0.96%) BGP
8 6 (0.96%) LAN
8 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.80%) Broadband
9 5 (0.80%) Internet
9 5 (0.80%) NGFW
9 5 (0.80%) OSPF
10 4 (0.64%) DHCP
10 4 (0.64%) HTTP
11 3 (0.48%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.48%) Modbus
12 2 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.25%) Power BI
2 10 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.28%) Big Data
4 4 (0.64%) Tableau
5 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.32%) Metadata
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.16%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 22 (3.53%) JIRA
2 21 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.48%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.32%) Git
5 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.16%) GitLab
General
1 200 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 159 (25.52%) Finance
3 73 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.03%) Banking
6 34 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.37%) Legal
9 19 (3.05%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.57%) Retail
12 13 (2.09%) Local Government
13 12 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.77%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.28%) Military
17 7 (1.12%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.96%) Spanish Language
19 5 (0.80%) Law
20 3 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 85 (13.64%) Analyst
2 71 (11.40%) Architect
3 68 (10.91%) Senior
4 61 (9.79%) Security Engineer
5 58 (9.31%) Consultant
6 53 (8.51%) Security Manager
7 50 (8.03%) Project Manager
8 40 (6.42%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 38 (6.10%) Security Architect
10 36 (5.78%) Lead
10 36 (5.78%) Security Analyst
10 36 (5.78%) Security Consultant
11 35 (5.62%) Security Specialist
12 29 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 29 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 25 (4.01%) Business Analyst
13 25 (4.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 23 (3.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 20 (3.21%) Security Project Manager
16 18 (2.89%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.69%) SAML
2 22 (3.53%) OpenID
3 14 (2.25%) LDAP
4 13 (2.09%) REST
5 9 (1.44%) SailPoint
6 8 (1.28%) Kafka
7 7 (1.12%) .NET
8 6 (0.96%) OAuth
8 6 (0.96%) React
9 5 (0.80%) NestJS
10 4 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (0.64%) Middleware
10 4 (0.64%) Node.js
10 4 (0.64%) RESTful
11 3 (0.48%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.48%) Web Services
12 2 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.32%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.32%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.87%) Security Posture
2 40 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 39 (6.26%) Management Information System
4 34 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 25 (4.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
7 20 (3.21%) Cyber Defence
8 16 (2.57%) PKI
8 16 (2.57%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.41%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.25%) Operational Technology
11 13 (2.09%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.77%) BYOD
13 11 (1.77%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.96%) NHS
16 5 (0.80%) Private Cloud
16 5 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.15%) Windows
2 33 (5.30%) Linux
3 14 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.93%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.61%) Unix
6 8 (1.28%) VMS
6 8 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) CentOS
8 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (18.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (18.30%) Information Security
3 105 (16.85%) SIEM
4 101 (16.21%) Incident Response
5 96 (15.41%) Cloud Security
6 93 (14.93%) Agile
7 87 (13.96%) Risk Management
8 79 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 71 (11.40%) Security Operations
10 69 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (10.59%) AI
11 66 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (10.27%) Vulnerability Management
13 61 (9.79%) Identity Access Management
14 59 (9.47%) CI/CD
15 55 (8.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 55 (8.83%) Threat Intelligence
16 52 (8.35%) DevOps
17 50 (8.03%) Data Protection
18 48 (7.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.54%) Python
2 38 (6.10%) PowerShell
3 21 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
4 17 (2.73%) Bash
4 17 (2.73%) SQL
5 9 (1.44%) Java
6 8 (1.28%) C++
6 8 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.12%) C#
8 4 (0.64%) Rust
9 3 (0.48%) Go
10 2 (0.32%) Haskell
11 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.16%) Bicep
11 1 (0.16%) Korn
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 198 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 170 (27.29%) SC Cleared
3 102 (16.37%) CISSP
4 69 (11.08%) CISM
5 55 (8.83%) Degree
6 33 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 19 (3.05%) CEH
9 16 (2.57%) GIAC
10 15 (2.41%) CRISC
11 14 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.25%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.93%) PMP
13 10 (1.61%) CESG Certified Professional
13 10 (1.61%) CHECK Team Leader
13 10 (1.61%) CISA
13 10 (1.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (20.87%) NIST
2 124 (19.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (8.67%) GDPR
4 44 (7.06%) GRC
5 38 (6.10%) NCSC
6 29 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (4.49%) PCI DSS
8 15 (2.41%) COBIT
9 14 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (1.61%) QA
11 10 (1.61%) SLA
11 10 (1.61%) SOC 2
12 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 7 (1.12%) PMO
13 6 (0.96%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.96%) ITGC
14 5 (0.80%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 41 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.12%) Docker
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.65%) Terraform
3 26 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (3.21%) SCCM
5 13 (2.09%) Ansible
6 11 (1.77%) CASB
7 7 (1.12%) AirWatch
8 6 (0.96%) SCOrch
9 5 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.64%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.48%) logstash
11 3 (0.48%) Nessus
11 3 (0.48%) QRadar
11 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.48%) WSUS
12 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.32%) Nagios
12 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 153 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.63%) Splunk
3 29 (4.65%) CyberArk
4 28 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.05%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (2.89%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.57%) Google
7 16 (2.57%) Tenable
8 14 (2.25%) Foundry
9 12 (1.93%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.61%) Cisco
10 10 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.44%) Netskope
12 8 (1.28%) Qualys
13 7 (1.12%) Okta
13 7 (1.12%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.96%) VMware
15 5 (0.80%) Ariba
15 5 (0.80%) Ping Identity
15 5 (0.80%) SAP