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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 53 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 903 600 593
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 4.49% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 4.85% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 361 379
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £782
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £38.30 £33.13 £27.62
25th Percentile £42.13 £38.63 £30.03
Median hourly rate £49.50 £47.00 £42.06
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +11.75% -40.97%
75th Percentile £57.13 £58.44 £59.94
90th Percentile £61.10 £62.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £80.00 £47.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +70.21% -18.26% -21.05%

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £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 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +10 105 £550 +3.19% 200
West London -17 14 £550 +22.22% 78
East London +5 8 £525 -15.32% 23
South London -8 6 £495 -28.00% 15
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 18 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.22%) Confluence
3 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.11%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 252 (27.91%) Azure
2 164 (18.16%) AWS
3 98 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (10.08%) Entra ID
5 69 (7.64%) GCP
6 52 (5.76%) SaaS
7 45 (4.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 44 (4.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 31 (3.43%) Power Platform
10 22 (2.44%) GitHub
11 21 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.66%) PaaS
14 14 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (1.44%) IaaS
16 12 (1.33%) OCI
16 12 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (1.11%) Amazon S3
18 10 (1.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 65 (7.20%) Firewall
2 54 (5.98%) Network Security
3 28 (3.10%) DNS
4 21 (2.33%) VPN
5 13 (1.44%) Internet
5 13 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.44%) WAN
6 9 (1.00%) DHCP
7 8 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (0.89%) IPsec
8 7 (0.78%) LAN
9 6 (0.66%) NAS
9 6 (0.66%) SAN
9 6 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.55%) DKIM
10 5 (0.55%) HTTP
10 5 (0.55%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.55%) VLAN
10 5 (0.55%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.99%) Power BI
2 9 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.66%) Data Lake
3 6 (0.66%) DynamoDB
4 5 (0.55%) Db2
4 5 (0.55%) Metadata
5 4 (0.44%) Big Data
6 3 (0.33%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (2.88%) JIRA
2 9 (1.00%) Git
3 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.78%) GitLab
5 6 (0.66%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.55%) Snyk
7 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 284 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 211 (23.37%) Finance
3 99 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 67 (7.42%) Banking
6 36 (3.99%) Manufacturing
7 35 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
8 33 (3.65%) Legal
9 25 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.33%) Local Government
11 19 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.99%) Retail
13 17 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.77%) Military
15 15 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.55%) Aviation
18 5 (0.55%) Law
19 4 (0.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 151 (16.72%) Analyst
2 141 (15.61%) Architect
3 80 (8.86%) Security Architect
4 76 (8.42%) Senior
5 75 (8.31%) Security Analyst
6 73 (8.08%) Consultant
7 68 (7.53%) Lead
8 65 (7.20%) Security Engineer
9 63 (6.98%) Project Manager
10 56 (6.20%) Security Manager
11 49 (5.43%) Business Analyst
12 46 (5.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 45 (4.98%) Security Consultant
14 40 (4.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 31 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 30 (3.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 28 (3.10%) IT Manager
18 27 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
19 25 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Architect
20 21 (2.33%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.09%) Terraform
2 16 (1.77%) OAuth
3 13 (1.44%) REST
4 12 (1.33%) SAML
5 10 (1.11%) OpenID
6 9 (1.00%) SailPoint
7 8 (0.89%) LDAP
7 8 (0.89%) Middleware
8 7 (0.78%) FIDO
8 7 (0.78%) WebAuthn
9 6 (0.66%) AWS CDK
9 6 (0.66%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.55%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (0.55%) JSON
11 4 (0.44%) Django
11 4 (0.44%) JWT
11 4 (0.44%) RESTful
12 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
12 3 (0.33%) OpenAPI
12 3 (0.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.08%) Onboarding
2 65 (7.20%) Security Posture
3 63 (6.98%) Operational Technology
4 41 (4.54%) Cyber Threat
5 37 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 36 (3.99%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 26 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
9 23 (2.55%) SCADA
10 20 (2.21%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.77%) CMDB
13 16 (1.77%) PKI
14 14 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (1.11%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.98%) Windows
2 28 (3.10%) Linux
3 18 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.77%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.11%) Unix
6 9 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 169 (18.72%) Risk Management
3 160 (17.72%) Incident Response
4 150 (16.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 148 (16.39%) Vulnerability Management
6 144 (15.95%) Security Operations
7 132 (14.62%) Cloud Security
8 126 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (13.40%) Security Architecture
10 119 (13.18%) Roadmaps
11 117 (12.96%) SIEM
12 111 (12.29%) Agile
13 108 (11.96%) Information Security
14 102 (11.30%) Identity Access Management
15 97 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
16 92 (10.19%) AI
17 87 (9.63%) Data Protection
18 86 (9.52%) Decision-Making
19 77 (8.53%) DevOps
20 73 (8.08%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 53 (5.87%) Python
2 50 (5.54%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.55%) SQL
4 18 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (1.66%) Bicep
6 13 (1.44%) Bash
7 6 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.55%) Korn
8 5 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.22%) C#
9 2 (0.22%) Java
9 2 (0.22%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.22%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.11%) C
10 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.11%) Go
10 1 (0.11%) Groovy
10 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 233 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 181 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 160 (17.72%) CISSP
4 104 (11.52%) CISM
5 68 (7.53%) Degree
6 48 (5.32%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (4.21%) PMP
9 37 (4.10%) PMI Certification
10 35 (3.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 31 (3.43%) Azure Certification
11 31 (3.43%) CRISC
12 29 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 28 (3.10%) GIAC
14 27 (2.99%) AWS Certification
15 25 (2.77%) CEH
16 20 (2.21%) CCSP
17 19 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
18 18 (1.99%) CISA
19 16 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (21.59%) NIST
2 190 (21.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 79 (8.75%) NCSC
4 70 (7.75%) GRC
5 53 (5.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 48 (5.32%) GDPR
7 40 (4.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (3.21%) COBIT
9 28 (3.10%) PCI DSS
10 22 (2.44%) NIST 800
10 22 (2.44%) PMO
11 18 (1.99%) QA
12 16 (1.77%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.00%) ITGC
13 9 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (1.00%) SLA
14 8 (0.89%) EU AI Act
15 7 (0.78%) Data Quality
15 7 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 61 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.99%) Docker
3 13 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.66%) NFS
4 6 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.33%) vSphere
6 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) Samba
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.77%) Ansible
4 12 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.55%) Puppet
6 5 (0.55%) QRadar
7 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.44%) Grafana
8 3 (0.33%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.33%) Nessus
8 3 (0.33%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.22%) MOM
9 2 (0.22%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
10 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 241 (26.69%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.43%) Splunk
3 45 (4.98%) ServiceNow
4 39 (4.32%) CrowdStrike
5 34 (3.77%) CyberArk
6 27 (2.99%) Google
7 26 (2.88%) Qualys
8 24 (2.66%) Tenable
9 17 (1.88%) Palo Alto
9 17 (1.88%) VMware
10 14 (1.55%) Cisco
11 13 (1.44%) Oracle
11 13 (1.44%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.22%) Rapid7
13 10 (1.11%) Okta
14 8 (0.89%) Databricks
15 7 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
15 7 (0.78%) Netskope
16 6 (0.66%) Apple
16 6 (0.66%) Siemens