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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 833 561 562
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.15% 4.17% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.51% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 349 395
10th Percentile £421 £375 £400
25th Percentile £496 £495 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £563 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £31.72 £31.88 £27.14
25th Percentile £35.75 £34.69 £30.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.87% +52.72% -62.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £92.45 £62.95 £70.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +42.22% -13.46% -14.10%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +15 105 £550 +4.76% 67
West London -16 10 £550 +22.22% 51
East London -4 7 £620 +6.90% 29
South London -15 4 £475 -24.00% 17
North London -4 1 £400 -38.46% 14
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 (1.56%) Confluence
1 13 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.12%) CMS
3 1 (0.12%) IIS
3 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (29.29%) Azure
2 146 (17.53%) AWS
3 85 (10.20%) Entra ID
4 84 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (8.16%) GCP
6 61 (7.32%) SaaS
7 42 (5.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 41 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
9 26 (3.12%) Power Platform
10 20 (2.40%) PaaS
11 18 (2.16%) IaaS
11 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.04%) GitHub
13 16 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
14 14 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (1.44%) Azure AI
16 9 (1.08%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.08%) OCI
17 8 (0.96%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.44%) Firewall
2 54 (6.48%) Network Security
3 28 (3.36%) DNS
4 19 (2.28%) VPN
5 13 (1.56%) Internet
6 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.20%) WAN
8 8 (0.96%) DHCP
8 8 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.84%) LAN
9 7 (0.84%) VLAN
10 6 (0.72%) NAS
10 6 (0.72%) SAN
11 5 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.60%) DKIM
11 5 (0.60%) DMARC
11 5 (0.60%) IPsec
11 5 (0.60%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.60%) NGFW
12 4 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.92%) Power BI
2 11 (1.32%) Big Data
3 7 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.60%) Db2
5 4 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.36%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.36%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.12%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (3.24%) JIRA
2 8 (0.96%) Git
2 8 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.84%) GitLab
4 5 (0.60%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.60%) Snyk
5 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
General
1 251 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 214 (25.69%) Finance
3 89 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.20%) Banking
6 30 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.36%) Legal
8 27 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (2.76%) Local Government
10 20 (2.40%) Retail
11 17 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.96%) Military
15 5 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 137 (16.45%) Analyst
2 124 (14.89%) Architect
3 74 (8.88%) Security Architect
4 73 (8.76%) Senior
5 63 (7.56%) Lead
6 60 (7.20%) Security Analyst
7 59 (7.08%) Consultant
8 56 (6.72%) Security Engineer
9 55 (6.60%) Project Manager
10 54 (6.48%) Business Analyst
10 54 (6.48%) Security Manager
11 43 (5.16%) Security Consultant
12 42 (5.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 38 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 30 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 26 (3.12%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 26 (3.12%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 23 (2.76%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 20 (2.40%) Operations Analyst
17 20 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.56%) SailPoint
2 12 (1.44%) OAuth
2 12 (1.44%) REST
3 9 (1.08%) Middleware
4 8 (0.96%) LDAP
5 7 (0.84%) OpenID
5 7 (0.84%) SAML
6 5 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
6 5 (0.60%) FIDO
6 5 (0.60%) JSON
6 5 (0.60%) WebAuthn
7 4 (0.48%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.48%) RESTful
8 3 (0.36%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.36%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.36%) Django
9 2 (0.24%) JWT
9 2 (0.24%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.24%) SOAP
9 2 (0.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.92%) Security Posture
2 54 (6.48%) Onboarding
3 41 (4.92%) Operational Technology
4 35 (4.20%) Cloud Native
5 33 (3.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 26 (3.12%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.92%) CMDB
11 16 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.80%) PKI
12 15 (1.80%) SCADA
13 14 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.08%) BYOD
15 9 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.76%) Windows
2 27 (3.24%) Linux
3 16 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.32%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.32%) Unix
5 8 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.48%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (25.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 131 (15.73%) Incident Response
3 128 (15.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 123 (14.77%) Risk Management
4 123 (14.77%) Security Operations
5 120 (14.41%) Cloud Security
6 117 (14.05%) Vulnerability Management
7 110 (13.21%) SIEM
8 108 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (12.85%) Information Security
10 98 (11.76%) AI
11 97 (11.64%) Security Architecture
12 96 (11.52%) Roadmaps
13 95 (11.40%) Agile
13 95 (11.40%) Identity Access Management
14 83 (9.96%) Data Protection
15 79 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
16 70 (8.40%) DevOps
17 67 (8.04%) Decision-Making
18 63 (7.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.64%) Python
2 46 (5.52%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.60%) SQL
4 16 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (1.80%) Bash
5 15 (1.80%) Bicep
6 6 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.24%) C#
9 2 (0.24%) Java
9 2 (0.24%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.12%) C
10 1 (0.12%) Groovy
10 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 195 (23.41%) Security Cleared
2 150 (18.01%) CISSP
3 147 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 96 (11.52%) CISM
5 69 (8.28%) Degree
6 44 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (4.80%) DV Cleared
8 36 (4.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (3.96%) PMP
10 30 (3.60%) PMI Certification
11 28 (3.36%) CEH
11 28 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 28 (3.36%) GIAC
12 24 (2.88%) CRISC
13 21 (2.52%) Azure Certification
14 19 (2.28%) CISA
15 17 (2.04%) AWS Certification
15 17 (2.04%) CCSP
16 16 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
17 15 (1.80%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (22.21%) NIST
2 163 (19.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (7.68%) NCSC
4 58 (6.96%) GRC
5 56 (6.72%) GDPR
6 48 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 36 (4.32%) COBIT
8 34 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (3.48%) PCI DSS
10 19 (2.28%) PMO
10 19 (2.28%) QA
11 17 (2.04%) NIST 800
11 17 (2.04%) SOC 2
12 16 (1.92%) ITGC
13 11 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (1.08%) EU AI Act
15 7 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.84%) SLA
16 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 59 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.80%) Docker
3 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) NFS
4 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) Samba
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.92%) Terraform
2 20 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.56%) Ansible
6 9 (1.08%) CASB
7 6 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.60%) Puppet
8 5 (0.60%) QRadar
9 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.48%) Nessus
9 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.36%) Grafana
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) SCCM
11 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.24%) MOM
11 2 (0.24%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 223 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.92%) CrowdStrike
2 41 (4.92%) ServiceNow
3 39 (4.68%) CyberArk
3 39 (4.68%) Splunk
4 25 (3.00%) Tenable
5 23 (2.76%) Google
6 22 (2.64%) Qualys
7 15 (1.80%) Cisco
8 14 (1.68%) Zscaler
9 13 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.44%) Foundry
11 11 (1.32%) VMware
12 10 (1.20%) Oracle
13 9 (1.08%) Okta
13 9 (1.08%) Rapid7
14 8 (0.96%) Netskope
15 6 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
15 6 (0.72%) Databricks