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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 67 71
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 788 536 568
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 3.96% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.30% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 328 410
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £481 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £678 £725
90th Percentile £800 £763 £800
England median daily rate £561 £550 £581
% change year-on-year +2.05% -5.38% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £33.07 £33.15 £30.04
25th Percentile £48.50 £37.88 £30.09
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £43.81
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +24.40% -37.41%
75th Percentile £97.50 £63.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £103.30 - £71.75
England median hourly rate £82.50 £55.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -29.49% +4.00%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +12 107 £550 +3.19% 53
South London -17 8 £308 -41.43% 18
East London -4 5 £620 +3.33% 31
West London -17 5 £500 +14.29% 46
North London -4 1 £400 -38.46% 11
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 13 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.27%) Confluence
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) CMS
4 1 (0.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 217 (27.54%) Azure
2 126 (15.99%) AWS
3 80 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (9.39%) Entra ID
5 55 (6.98%) GCP
6 53 (6.73%) SaaS
7 42 (5.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 39 (4.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 21 (2.66%) Amazon Bedrock
10 19 (2.41%) PaaS
11 16 (2.03%) Azure AI
11 16 (2.03%) GitHub
11 16 (2.03%) IaaS
12 14 (1.78%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (1.40%) Mimecast
14 11 (1.40%) OpenShift
15 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.98%) Firewall
2 52 (6.60%) Network Security
3 24 (3.05%) DNS
4 16 (2.03%) VPN
5 10 (1.27%) Internet
6 9 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.02%) WAN
8 7 (0.89%) DHCP
8 7 (0.89%) LAN
8 7 (0.89%) NGFW
8 7 (0.89%) VLAN
9 6 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.63%) DKIM
10 5 (0.63%) DMARC
11 4 (0.51%) HTTP
11 4 (0.51%) Intranet
11 4 (0.51%) IPsec
11 4 (0.51%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.51%) NAS
11 4 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.52%) Power BI
2 10 (1.27%) Big Data
3 5 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (0.51%) Db2
4 4 (0.51%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (2.66%) JIRA
2 16 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.02%) Git
4 5 (0.63%) GitLab
5 4 (0.51%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.51%) Snyk
6 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.25%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.13%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 220 (27.92%) Finance
2 217 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 84 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.23%) Banking
6 39 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.43%) Legal
9 21 (2.66%) Local Government
10 19 (2.41%) Retail
11 13 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.02%) Military
15 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.51%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 122 (15.48%) Analyst
2 119 (15.10%) Architect
3 73 (9.26%) Security Architect
4 66 (8.38%) Senior
5 63 (7.99%) Project Manager
6 57 (7.23%) Consultant
6 57 (7.23%) Security Engineer
7 53 (6.73%) Lead
7 53 (6.73%) Security Analyst
8 50 (6.35%) Security Manager
9 45 (5.71%) Security Consultant
10 44 (5.58%) Business Analyst
11 39 (4.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 36 (4.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 35 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 33 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 28 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 28 (3.55%) Security Specialist
16 27 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 19 (2.41%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.28%) LDAP
2 17 (2.16%) SAML
3 16 (2.03%) OpenID
4 13 (1.65%) SailPoint
5 9 (1.14%) OAuth
6 8 (1.02%) Middleware
6 8 (1.02%) REST
7 5 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.38%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.38%) Django
8 3 (0.38%) FIDO
8 3 (0.38%) JSON
8 3 (0.38%) RESTful
9 2 (0.25%) NestJS
9 2 (0.25%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.25%) SOAP
9 2 (0.25%) Web Services
10 1 (0.13%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.13%) STL
10 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.14%) Security Posture
2 49 (6.22%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 35 (4.44%) Operational Technology
5 26 (3.30%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (2.16%) PKI
8 16 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.03%) SCADA
9 14 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.40%) CMDB
10 11 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.14%) BYOD
12 9 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
12 9 (1.14%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.46%) Windows
2 21 (2.66%) Linux
3 17 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.27%) Unix
5 8 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.51%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 117 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 113 (14.34%) Incident Response
4 111 (14.09%) Information Security
5 110 (13.96%) Risk Management
6 109 (13.83%) Security Operations
6 109 (13.83%) SIEM
7 104 (13.20%) Vulnerability Management
8 95 (12.06%) Cloud Security
9 84 (10.66%) Agile
10 83 (10.53%) AI
11 82 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 80 (10.15%) Security Architecture
13 77 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
14 76 (9.64%) Data Protection
15 75 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
16 73 (9.26%) Roadmaps
17 65 (8.25%) DevOps
18 63 (7.99%) Threat Modelling
19 62 (7.87%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.35%) Python
2 40 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 26 (3.30%) SQL
4 17 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
5 13 (1.65%) Bash
6 9 (1.14%) Bicep
7 6 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.63%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.38%) C#
9 3 (0.38%) Korn
9 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.25%) C++
10 2 (0.25%) Java
10 2 (0.25%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.25%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.25%) Rust
11 1 (0.13%) C
11 1 (0.13%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 194 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 149 (18.91%) SC Cleared
3 140 (17.77%) CISSP
4 90 (11.42%) CISM
5 63 (7.99%) Degree
6 41 (5.20%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (4.95%) DV Cleared
8 33 (4.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 29 (3.68%) GIAC
10 27 (3.43%) CRISC
11 26 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (3.05%) CEH
13 21 (2.66%) CISA
13 21 (2.66%) PMI Certification
14 20 (2.54%) PMP
15 16 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (1.90%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (1.78%) Azure Certification
17 14 (1.78%) CCSP
17 14 (1.78%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (22.21%) NIST
2 149 (18.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (8.38%) NCSC
4 64 (8.12%) GRC
5 63 (7.99%) GDPR
6 44 (5.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 36 (4.57%) COBIT
8 34 (4.31%) PCI DSS
9 32 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (2.79%) QA
11 19 (2.41%) SOC 2
12 17 (2.16%) NIST 800
13 15 (1.90%) ITGC
14 13 (1.65%) PMO
15 10 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (1.02%) EU AI Act
17 7 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.89%) SLA
18 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 53 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.65%) Docker
3 7 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) NFS
6 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Samba
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (4.19%) Terraform
2 29 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.40%) Ansible
6 9 (1.14%) CASB
7 5 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.63%) Puppet
7 5 (0.63%) QRadar
8 4 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.38%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.38%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.38%) Grafana
9 3 (0.38%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.25%) Nessus
10 2 (0.25%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 187 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.85%) Splunk
3 50 (6.35%) CyberArk
4 41 (5.20%) CrowdStrike
5 32 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.79%) Tenable
7 19 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.41%) Qualys
8 18 (2.28%) Google
9 17 (2.16%) Foundry
10 14 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.40%) Netskope
11 11 (1.40%) Zscaler
12 10 (1.27%) Cisco
13 9 (1.14%) Okta
13 9 (1.14%) VMware
14 8 (1.02%) Oracle
14 8 (1.02%) Rapid7
15 5 (0.63%) Apple
15 5 (0.63%) Cribl.io