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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 66 70
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 788 514 563
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 3.87% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.20% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 314 414
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £475 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £683 £725
90th Percentile £800 £772 £800
England median daily rate £560 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +1.82% -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £33.07 £31.58 £30.02
25th Percentile £48.50 £33.94 £30.06
Median hourly rate £67.50 £42.25 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +59.76% +40.27% -56.97%
75th Percentile £97.50 £54.94 £53.19
90th Percentile £103.30 £59.93 £67.02
England median hourly rate £82.50 £54.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -30.13% +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 17,240 12,243 15,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.20% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,454 8,171 11,099
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £439 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +4 105 £550 +3.19% 160
South London -10 8 £308 -38.50% 16
East London -5 5 £620 +4.64% 26
West London -25 4 £500 +14.29% 52
North London -1 2 £400 -28.09% 9
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 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 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
2 130 (16.50%) AWS
3 78 (9.90%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (8.38%) Entra ID
5 57 (7.23%) GCP
6 56 (7.11%) SaaS
7 43 (5.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 39 (4.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 21 (2.66%) Amazon Bedrock
9 21 (2.66%) PaaS
10 19 (2.41%) GitHub
11 18 (2.28%) IaaS
12 16 (2.03%) Azure AI
13 14 (1.78%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.65%) Mimecast
15 12 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (1.52%) OpenShift
16 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.98%) Firewall
2 49 (6.22%) Network Security
3 22 (2.79%) DNS
4 15 (1.90%) VPN
5 10 (1.27%) Internet
6 8 (1.02%) WAN
7 7 (0.89%) DHCP
7 7 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (0.89%) LAN
7 7 (0.89%) NGFW
7 7 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.89%) VLAN
8 5 (0.63%) DKIM
8 5 (0.63%) DMARC
9 4 (0.51%) Intranet
9 4 (0.51%) IPsec
9 4 (0.51%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.51%) NAS
9 4 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.52%) Power BI
2 9 (1.14%) Big Data
3 4 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (0.51%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.51%) Db2
3 4 (0.51%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (2.66%) JIRA
2 17 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.27%) 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
1 223 (28.30%) Finance
2 213 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 88 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.11%) Banking
6 39 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.43%) Legal
9 22 (2.79%) Local Government
10 19 (2.41%) Retail
11 14 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.89%) Military
16 4 (0.51%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.51%) Aviation
16 4 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 119 (15.10%) Architect
2 118 (14.97%) Analyst
3 72 (9.14%) Security Architect
4 65 (8.25%) Project Manager
5 63 (7.99%) Senior
6 60 (7.61%) Security Engineer
7 55 (6.98%) Consultant
8 52 (6.60%) Security Manager
9 51 (6.47%) Security Analyst
10 50 (6.35%) Lead
11 44 (5.58%) Business Analyst
12 43 (5.46%) Security Consultant
13 38 (4.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 37 (4.70%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 36 (4.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 35 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 29 (3.68%) Security Specialist
18 27 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Architect
19 26 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
20 19 (2.41%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.41%) LDAP
2 18 (2.28%) SAML
3 17 (2.16%) OpenID
4 13 (1.65%) SailPoint
5 11 (1.40%) REST
6 9 (1.14%) OAuth
7 8 (1.02%) Middleware
8 5 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.51%) NestJS
9 4 (0.51%) RESTful
10 3 (0.38%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.38%) Django
10 3 (0.38%) JSON
10 3 (0.38%) Web Services
11 2 (0.25%) .NET
11 2 (0.25%) FIDO
11 2 (0.25%) Node.js
11 2 (0.25%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.25%) SOAP
12 1 (0.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.01%) Security Posture
2 48 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 46 (5.84%) Onboarding
4 34 (4.31%) Operational Technology
5 26 (3.30%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (2.16%) SCADA
8 16 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.03%) PKI
9 14 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.27%) CMDB
11 10 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.27%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.14%) BYOD
12 9 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
13 8 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.71%) Windows
2 23 (2.92%) 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
1 165 (20.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (14.47%) Information Security
3 113 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 111 (14.09%) Incident Response
4 111 (14.09%) Risk Management
5 106 (13.45%) SIEM
6 102 (12.94%) Vulnerability Management
7 101 (12.82%) Security Operations
8 97 (12.31%) Cloud Security
9 84 (10.66%) AI
9 84 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 82 (10.41%) Agile
11 81 (10.28%) Security Architecture
12 78 (9.90%) Data Protection
13 77 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
14 76 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
15 72 (9.14%) Roadmaps
16 66 (8.38%) DevOps
16 66 (8.38%) Threat Modelling
17 64 (8.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.60%) Python
2 40 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 25 (3.17%) SQL
4 18 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (1.78%) Bash
6 9 (1.14%) Bicep
7 8 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (0.51%) Java
10 3 (0.38%) C#
10 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.38%) Korn
10 3 (0.38%) Rust
10 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Go
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) Groovy
12 1 (0.13%) Haskell
12 1 (0.13%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 192 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 146 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 140 (17.77%) CISSP
4 90 (11.42%) CISM
5 65 (8.25%) Degree
6 41 (5.20%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 34 (4.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 28 (3.55%) GIAC
10 27 (3.43%) CRISC
11 25 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 23 (2.92%) CEH
13 21 (2.66%) CISA
14 20 (2.54%) PMI Certification
15 18 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (2.28%) PMP
16 15 (1.90%) CCSP
17 14 (1.78%) Azure Certification
18 12 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
18 12 (1.52%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (22.46%) NIST
2 152 (19.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (8.50%) GDPR
3 67 (8.50%) NCSC
4 66 (8.38%) GRC
5 46 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 36 (4.57%) COBIT
6 36 (4.57%) PCI DSS
7 34 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 22 (2.79%) QA
9 18 (2.28%) SOC 2
10 16 (2.03%) NIST 800
11 14 (1.78%) ITGC
12 12 (1.52%) PMO
13 9 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (1.02%) EU AI Act
14 8 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.76%) SLA
16 4 (0.51%) JSP 440
System Software
1 50 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.90%) 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 36 (4.57%) Terraform
2 32 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.40%) Ansible
6 9 (1.14%) CASB
7 5 (0.63%) AirWatch
7 5 (0.63%) Puppet
7 5 (0.63%) QRadar
8 4 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
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
1 185 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.98%) Splunk
3 50 (6.35%) CyberArk
4 42 (5.33%) CrowdStrike
5 34 (4.31%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.79%) Tenable
7 20 (2.54%) Google
7 20 (2.54%) Qualys
8 19 (2.41%) OpenAI
9 17 (2.16%) Foundry
10 14 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.65%) Netskope
12 10 (1.27%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.14%) Cisco
13 9 (1.14%) Okta
13 9 (1.14%) VMware
13 9 (1.14%) Zscaler
14 8 (1.02%) Oracle
15 5 (0.63%) Apple
16 4 (0.51%) Sybase