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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 52 63
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 927 612 590
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.55% 4.57% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 4.93% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 365 368
10th Percentile £430 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £677 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £775 £788
England median daily rate £550 £550 £598
% change year-on-year - -7.95% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £40.85 £33.75 £27.62
25th Percentile £48.50 £41.00 £35.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.98% -15.70% -23.10%
75th Percentile £66.88 £62.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.95 £77.33
England median hourly rate £76.25 £45.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +69.44% -21.74% -21.57%

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 18,094 12,405 14,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,846 8,173 9,340
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £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 338 241 182
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -18.14% -7.51%
75th Percentile £58.44 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 7 October 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 October 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 October 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 -8 96 £550 +4.76% 215
West London -8 16 £575 +31.43% 54
East London +4 8 £525 -8.70% 24
South London -9 5 £495 -28.00% 19
North London -2 2 £400 -38.46% 4
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 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.97%) Confluence
4 3 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
5 1 (0.11%) nginx
5 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Eloqua
1 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 262 (28.26%) Azure
2 165 (17.80%) AWS
3 104 (11.22%) Entra ID
4 101 (10.90%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (7.23%) GCP
6 56 (6.04%) SaaS
7 44 (4.75%) Microsoft Purview
8 43 (4.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 41 (4.42%) Power Platform
10 30 (3.24%) GitHub
11 26 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.40%) OCI
14 13 (1.40%) PaaS
14 13 (1.40%) Serverless
15 12 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.19%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.19%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.12%) Firewall
2 60 (6.47%) Network Security
3 26 (2.80%) DNS
4 22 (2.37%) VPN
5 17 (1.83%) WAN
6 14 (1.51%) Internet
7 11 (1.19%) LAN
8 10 (1.08%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.97%) DHCP
10 8 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (0.86%) IPsec
10 8 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.65%) Modbus
13 5 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.54%) DKIM
13 5 (0.54%) MQTT
13 5 (0.54%) NAS
13 5 (0.54%) NGFW
13 5 (0.54%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.80%) Power BI
2 10 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.86%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.76%) Metadata
5 6 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.43%) Db2
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.43%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.32%) Big Data
7 3 (0.32%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (2.80%) JIRA
2 9 (0.97%) GitLab
3 8 (0.86%) Git
3 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.65%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.54%) Snyk
6 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.22%) MSI
7 2 (0.22%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.11%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.11%) NUnit
8 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 302 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 217 (23.41%) Finance
3 105 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 74 (7.98%) Banking
6 42 (4.53%) Manufacturing
7 38 (4.10%) Legal
8 36 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.83%) Local Government
10 17 (1.83%) Military
10 17 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (1.83%) Retail
10 17 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.65%) Law
12 6 (0.65%) Police
13 5 (0.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 152 (16.40%) Analyst
2 147 (15.86%) Architect
3 86 (9.28%) Consultant
4 82 (8.85%) Senior
5 77 (8.31%) Lead
5 77 (8.31%) Security Analyst
5 77 (8.31%) Security Architect
6 65 (7.01%) Project Manager
6 65 (7.01%) Security Engineer
7 55 (5.93%) Security Manager
8 50 (5.39%) Security Consultant
9 48 (5.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 46 (4.96%) Business Analyst
11 37 (3.99%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 34 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 34 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 29 (3.13%) IT Manager
14 28 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 19 (2.05%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.47%) Terraform
2 18 (1.94%) REST
3 16 (1.73%) OAuth
4 11 (1.19%) SAML
5 9 (0.97%) OpenID
5 9 (0.97%) SailPoint
6 8 (0.86%) Middleware
6 8 (0.86%) WebAuthn
7 7 (0.76%) FIDO
7 7 (0.76%) LDAP
7 7 (0.76%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.65%) JSON
9 5 (0.54%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.54%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.54%) JWT
9 5 (0.54%) Kafka
9 5 (0.54%) RESTful
10 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.32%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.32%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 79 (8.52%) Onboarding
2 73 (7.87%) Operational Technology
3 68 (7.34%) Security Posture
4 49 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
4 49 (5.29%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 34 (3.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 28 (3.02%) Cyber Defence
8 26 (2.80%) SCADA
9 24 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.48%) Data Centre
11 20 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.94%) PKI
13 17 (1.83%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.73%) CMDB
15 14 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.29%) Cyberattack
16 12 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.36%) Windows
2 31 (3.34%) Linux
3 20 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.73%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.76%) Unix
7 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (30.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 175 (18.88%) Risk Management
3 162 (17.48%) Incident Response
4 158 (17.04%) Vulnerability Management
5 149 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 145 (15.64%) Cloud Security
6 145 (15.64%) Security Operations
7 143 (15.43%) Roadmaps
8 140 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (12.94%) Security Architecture
9 120 (12.94%) SIEM
10 116 (12.51%) Information Security
11 114 (12.30%) Agile
12 108 (11.65%) Identity Access Management
13 98 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
14 94 (10.14%) AI
14 94 (10.14%) Data Protection
15 92 (9.92%) Decision-Making
16 87 (9.39%) DevOps
17 81 (8.74%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 55 (5.93%) Python
2 54 (5.83%) PowerShell
3 25 (2.70%) SQL
4 19 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
5 18 (1.94%) Bicep
6 14 (1.51%) Bash
7 6 (0.65%) Korn
7 6 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (0.43%) C#
8 4 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.32%) Java
10 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.22%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.11%) Go
11 1 (0.11%) Groovy
11 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 236 (25.46%) Security Cleared
2 186 (20.06%) SC Cleared
3 160 (17.26%) CISSP
4 107 (11.54%) CISM
5 70 (7.55%) Degree
6 45 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 39 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (4.10%) PMP
9 37 (3.99%) PMI Certification
10 35 (3.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 34 (3.67%) CRISC
12 33 (3.56%) Azure Certification
13 29 (3.13%) AWS Certification
13 29 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
14 26 (2.80%) GIAC
15 23 (2.48%) CISA
16 22 (2.37%) CCSP
16 22 (2.37%) CEH
17 21 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
18 16 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (22.01%) NIST
2 202 (21.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (8.85%) NCSC
4 76 (8.20%) GRC
5 52 (5.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 48 (5.18%) GDPR
7 38 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 33 (3.56%) PCI DSS
9 28 (3.02%) COBIT
10 24 (2.59%) NIST 800
11 21 (2.27%) PMO
12 18 (1.94%) QA
13 17 (1.83%) SOC 2
14 13 (1.40%) Data Quality
15 10 (1.08%) SLA
16 8 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.86%) ITGC
17 7 (0.76%) EU AI Act
17 7 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (7.34%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.94%) Docker
3 13 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.54%) NFS
6 4 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.32%) vSphere
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) KVM
9 1 (0.11%) Samba
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (2.27%) Ansible
4 13 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.08%) Grafana
6 7 (0.76%) QRadar
7 6 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.54%) Puppet
9 4 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.32%) Nessus
10 3 (0.32%) SCCM
11 2 (0.22%) Argo
11 2 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) logstash
11 2 (0.22%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 251 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.39%) ServiceNow
3 46 (4.96%) Splunk
4 38 (4.10%) CrowdStrike
5 36 (3.88%) CyberArk
6 31 (3.34%) Google
7 29 (3.13%) Qualys
8 24 (2.59%) Tenable
9 20 (2.16%) Cisco
9 20 (2.16%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.83%) VMware
11 15 (1.62%) Oracle
12 14 (1.51%) Rapid7
13 13 (1.40%) Zscaler
14 12 (1.29%) Okta
15 11 (1.19%) Databricks
16 10 (1.08%) Fortinet
17 9 (0.97%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (0.97%) Dynatrace
18 7 (0.76%) Siemens