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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 58 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 635 580 723
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 3.72% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 4.14% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 360 491
10th Percentile £413 £412 £413
25th Percentile £486 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -3.61%
75th Percentile £688 £679 £749
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
England median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.57% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 2
10th Percentile £30.00 £38.62 £53.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £52.44 £55.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.55 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +4.88% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67.88 £82.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.20 £74.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -15.81% -25.52% +10.69%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -17 75 £530 -7.83% 80
West London -7 8 £423 -23.18% 45
North London - 5 £650 - 13
South London -13 4 £525 - 30
East London -9 3 £675 +13.92% 37
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 20 (3.15%) Confluence
2 19 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.73%) Apache
4 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.47%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.31%) 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
1 137 (21.57%) Azure
2 89 (14.02%) AWS
3 53 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (6.30%) GCP
5 35 (5.51%) Entra ID
6 27 (4.25%) SaaS
7 25 (3.94%) GitHub
8 19 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (2.68%) Power Platform
10 15 (2.36%) Serverless
11 13 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.42%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.10%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.94%) PaaS
16 5 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.81%) Firewall
2 43 (6.77%) Network Security
3 17 (2.68%) DNS
4 14 (2.20%) WAN
5 13 (2.05%) VPN
6 12 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (1.73%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (1.42%) SSL
9 8 (1.26%) Internet
9 8 (1.26%) Wireless
10 6 (0.94%) DHCP
10 6 (0.94%) HTTP
10 6 (0.94%) LAN
11 5 (0.79%) IP Telephony
11 5 (0.79%) Modbus
12 4 (0.63%) VLAN
13 3 (0.47%) SMTP
13 3 (0.47%) SSH
13 3 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.20%) Power BI
2 10 (1.57%) Big Data
3 8 (1.26%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (0.79%) Tableau
5 4 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) Metadata
6 2 (0.31%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.16%) GIS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.16%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (4.72%) JIRA
2 9 (1.42%) Burp Suite
2 9 (1.42%) Metasploit
3 6 (0.94%) SonarQube
4 5 (0.79%) GitLab
5 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.47%) Git
6 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) Ant
7 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) Snyk
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 209 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 148 (23.31%) Finance
3 69 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 60 (9.45%) Banking
6 21 (3.31%) Legal
7 18 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.20%) Local Government
12 12 (1.89%) Military
12 12 (1.89%) Retail
13 9 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.10%) Law
16 6 (0.94%) Spanish Language
17 5 (0.79%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 105 (16.54%) Analyst
2 87 (13.70%) Security Engineer
3 68 (10.71%) Senior
4 60 (9.45%) Architect
5 57 (8.98%) Consultant
6 56 (8.82%) Security Analyst
7 43 (6.77%) Security Architect
7 43 (6.77%) Security Manager
8 41 (6.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 39 (6.14%) Project Manager
10 36 (5.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 33 (5.20%) Lead
12 31 (4.88%) Tester
13 30 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 28 (4.41%) Security Consultant
15 26 (4.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 26 (4.09%) Penetration Tester
16 23 (3.62%) Business Analyst
17 19 (2.99%) Security Specialist
18 17 (2.68%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.99%) Kafka
2 14 (2.20%) React
3 12 (1.89%) REST
4 11 (1.73%) SAML
5 10 (1.57%) .NET
5 10 (1.57%) OAuth
6 9 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
6 9 (1.42%) OpenID
7 8 (1.26%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.94%) LangChain
9 5 (0.79%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.79%) Node.js
10 4 (0.63%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.63%) NestJS
10 4 (0.63%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.63%) Regular Expression
10 4 (0.63%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.47%) Jest
11 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.47%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.40%) Management Information System
2 45 (7.09%) Security Posture
3 44 (6.93%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (4.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 27 (4.25%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.94%) Cyber Defence
7 24 (3.78%) Product Ownership
8 22 (3.46%) Data Centre
9 20 (3.15%) Cloud Native
10 18 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (2.20%) Operational Technology
11 14 (2.20%) PKI
12 9 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.10%) CSOC
14 7 (1.10%) IoT
15 6 (0.94%) CMDB
15 6 (0.94%) NHS
16 5 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 69 (10.87%) Windows
2 46 (7.24%) Linux
3 25 (3.94%) Mac OS
4 14 (2.20%) Unix
5 12 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.73%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.79%) Android
8 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.47%) VMS
10 2 (0.31%) CentOS
10 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (18.90%) Incident Response
2 117 (18.43%) SIEM
3 103 (16.22%) Cloud Security
4 101 (15.91%) Information Security
4 101 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 100 (15.75%) Agile
6 93 (14.65%) Security Operations
7 85 (13.39%) Risk Management
8 76 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 67 (10.55%) Threat Intelligence
11 66 (10.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 62 (9.76%) Vulnerability Management
13 58 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (8.82%) Security Architecture
15 53 (8.35%) AI
15 53 (8.35%) Roadmaps
16 52 (8.19%) Penetration Testing
17 50 (7.87%) CI/CD
18 48 (7.56%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (11.34%) Python
2 47 (7.40%) PowerShell
3 30 (4.72%) Bash
4 28 (4.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (2.36%) Java
6 14 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.89%) C#
7 12 (1.89%) C++
7 12 (1.89%) SQL
8 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.31%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) C
9 1 (0.16%) R
9 1 (0.16%) Ruby
9 1 (0.16%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 186 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 157 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 98 (15.43%) CISSP
4 58 (9.13%) Degree
5 56 (8.82%) CISM
6 35 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 28 (4.41%) CHECK Team Member
8 26 (4.09%) CEH
9 25 (3.94%) CHECK Team Leader
9 25 (3.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (3.15%) OSCP
11 16 (2.52%) GIAC
12 15 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.89%) PMI Certification
13 12 (1.89%) PMP
14 11 (1.73%) CISA
14 11 (1.73%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.73%) CREST Certified
14 11 (1.73%) FFIEC
14 11 (1.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (17.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 112 (17.64%) NIST
3 49 (7.72%) GDPR
4 30 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (4.25%) GRC
6 23 (3.62%) NCSC
6 23 (3.62%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.36%) QA
8 14 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.42%) COBIT
9 9 (1.42%) EU AI Act
9 9 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 9 (1.42%) SLA
10 7 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (1.10%) HIPAA
10 7 (1.10%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.79%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.63%) ITGC
12 4 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.94%) Docker
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (3.62%) Terraform
2 18 (2.83%) SCCM
3 15 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.05%) CASB
4 13 (2.05%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.73%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.26%) CSIRT
7 7 (1.10%) Nessus
7 7 (1.10%) Nmap
7 7 (1.10%) SCOrch
8 6 (0.94%) QRadar
9 5 (0.79%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.63%) Ansible
10 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.47%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.31%) logstash
12 2 (0.31%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 140 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.61%) Splunk
3 30 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 26 (4.09%) CrowdStrike
5 18 (2.83%) Tenable
6 16 (2.52%) CyberArk
6 16 (2.52%) Oracle
7 15 (2.36%) Google
7 15 (2.36%) SAP
8 14 (2.20%) Palo Alto
9 13 (2.05%) Darktrace
10 11 (1.73%) Cisco
10 11 (1.73%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.26%) Zscaler
13 7 (1.10%) Okta
13 7 (1.10%) Qualys
14 6 (0.94%) Forcepoint
14 6 (0.94%) Rapid7
14 6 (0.94%) Veracode