Cybersecurity Contracts in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 71 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 514 560 1,037
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.87% 3.18% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 3.59% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 411 737
10th Percentile £363 £400 £450
25th Percentile £466 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £750
90th Percentile £772 £800 £835
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £31.58 £30.02 £63.60
25th Percentile £33.94 £30.06 £66.00
Median hourly rate £42.25 £30.12 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.27% -56.97% +118.75%
75th Percentile £54.94 £53.19 £81.88
90th Percentile £59.93 £67.02 £89.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 £78.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -30.13% +4.00% +23.11%

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 12,246 15,579 23,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.54% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,177 11,085 16,913
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 294 268
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -26.42% +13.25%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 -9 79 £533 -14.72% 336
South London +13 14 £500 -29.82% 33
East London +2 10 £593 -1.25% 43
West London +12 8 £438 -16.67% 91
North London -1 4 £556 +46.38% 22
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.36%) Confluence
4 5 (0.97%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
5 1 (0.19%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 149 (28.99%) Azure
2 107 (20.82%) AWS
3 58 (11.28%) GCP
4 37 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (6.03%) SaaS
6 26 (5.06%) Amazon S3
7 23 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (4.09%) Entra ID
9 21 (4.09%) GitHub
10 16 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 13 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (2.53%) Serverless
12 9 (1.75%) IaaS
12 9 (1.75%) PaaS
13 6 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (9.34%) Firewall
2 32 (6.23%) Network Security
3 19 (3.70%) DNS
3 19 (3.70%) VPN
4 17 (3.31%) TCP/IP
5 13 (2.53%) WAN
6 12 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (2.14%) DHCP
8 10 (1.95%) LAN
9 9 (1.75%) HTTP
10 8 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (1.36%) SSL
12 6 (1.17%) VLAN
12 6 (1.17%) VoIP
13 5 (0.97%) IP Telephony
13 5 (0.97%) Wireless
14 4 (0.78%) SMTP
14 4 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
15 3 (0.58%) SD-WAN
16 2 (0.39%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.72%) Power BI
2 11 (2.14%) Big Data
3 6 (1.17%) Tableau
4 4 (0.78%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.78%) GIS
5 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.58%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.19%) Looker
6 1 (0.19%) MySQL
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.19%) QGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (2.92%) Burp Suite
2 14 (2.72%) JIRA
2 14 (2.72%) Metasploit
3 13 (2.53%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.17%) Git
5 5 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.78%) Postman
6 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.58%) Mocha
8 2 (0.39%) GitLab
9 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.19%) MSI
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 165 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 130 (25.29%) Finance
3 66 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 55 (10.70%) Banking
6 37 (7.20%) Legal
7 27 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.53%) Military
10 12 (2.33%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.75%) Law
12 7 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.36%) Games
13 6 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.97%) Local Government
15 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.78%) Marketing
16 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 97 (18.87%) Analyst
2 91 (17.70%) Architect
3 59 (11.48%) Security Architect
4 51 (9.92%) Security Engineer
5 48 (9.34%) Security Analyst
6 42 (8.17%) Consultant
7 39 (7.59%) Lead
7 39 (7.59%) Senior
8 37 (7.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 28 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 25 (4.86%) Security Consultant
11 24 (4.67%) Security Manager
12 22 (4.28%) Business Analyst
13 19 (3.70%) Project Manager
13 19 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.72%) IT Manager
15 11 (2.14%) Support Engineer
16 10 (1.95%) IT Engineer
16 10 (1.95%) Security Specialist
17 9 (1.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.75%) REST
2 6 (1.17%) OAuth
2 6 (1.17%) React
3 5 (0.97%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.78%) .NET
4 4 (0.78%) GraphQL
4 4 (0.78%) Kafka
4 4 (0.78%) Node.js
5 3 (0.58%) CSS
5 3 (0.58%) HTML
5 3 (0.58%) HTML5
5 3 (0.58%) LDAP
5 3 (0.58%) SAML
5 3 (0.58%) SVG
5 3 (0.58%) Swagger
5 3 (0.58%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.58%) Vue
5 3 (0.58%) Web Services
5 3 (0.58%) WebRTC
5 3 (0.58%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.34%) Security Posture
2 42 (8.17%) Onboarding
3 40 (7.78%) Management Information System
4 32 (6.23%) Cyber Threat
5 29 (5.64%) Security Operations Centre
6 22 (4.28%) CSOC
7 13 (2.53%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.53%) PKI
8 12 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.95%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.56%) Cyber Security Posture
11 8 (1.56%) iPhone
12 7 (1.36%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.97%) iPad
13 5 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 59 (11.48%) Windows
2 38 (7.39%) Linux
3 19 (3.70%) Mac OS
4 18 (3.50%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.75%) Unix
7 8 (1.56%) Android
8 6 (1.17%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.97%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.58%) AIX
10 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.58%) Solaris
11 2 (0.39%) VMS
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.19%) HPUX
12 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (17.32%) SIEM
3 88 (17.12%) Cloud Security
4 86 (16.73%) Security Operations
5 81 (15.76%) Information Security
6 79 (15.37%) Incident Response
7 74 (14.40%) Risk Management
8 73 (14.20%) Agile
9 55 (10.70%) Vulnerability Management
10 47 (9.14%) SOAR
11 46 (8.95%) DevSecOps
12 45 (8.75%) Project Management
12 45 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (8.56%) Penetration Testing
14 43 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (8.17%) CI/CD
16 39 (7.59%) Roadmaps
16 39 (7.59%) Security Architecture
17 38 (7.39%) Data Protection
18 37 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.87%) Python
2 42 (8.17%) PowerShell
3 39 (7.59%) Bash
4 20 (3.89%) SQL
5 11 (2.14%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.36%) Java
8 6 (1.17%) C++
9 5 (0.97%) C#
10 4 (0.78%) Perl
11 3 (0.58%) Bicep
11 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.39%) C
12 2 (0.39%) R
12 2 (0.39%) Ruby
12 2 (0.39%) Rust
12 2 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.19%) Groovy
13 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 123 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 105 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 83 (16.15%) CISSP
4 51 (9.92%) Degree
5 47 (9.14%) CISM
6 25 (4.86%) OSCP
7 20 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.89%) CREST Certified
8 19 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (3.50%) CEH
10 17 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (2.53%) PMP
12 13 (2.53%) Tigerscheme
13 12 (2.33%) CCSP
13 12 (2.33%) DV Cleared
13 12 (2.33%) PMI Certification
14 11 (2.14%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.95%) CHECK Team Member
15 10 (1.95%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (19.65%) NIST
2 95 (18.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (9.53%) GDPR
4 26 (5.06%) NCSC
5 23 (4.47%) GRC
6 20 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (2.92%) QA
8 12 (2.33%) PCI DSS
8 12 (2.33%) SLA
9 11 (2.14%) Data Quality
9 11 (2.14%) NIST 800
10 10 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (1.75%) HIPAA
12 7 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (1.36%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.58%) COBIT
13 3 (0.58%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.58%) RMADS
System Software
1 45 (8.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.78%) Docker
5 3 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.31%) SCCM
3 15 (2.92%) Terraform
4 14 (2.72%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (2.72%) Nmap
5 11 (2.14%) Ansible
6 10 (1.95%) CASB
7 8 (1.56%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.78%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.78%) QRadar
10 3 (0.58%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.58%) Grafana
10 3 (0.58%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.58%) SCOrch
10 3 (0.58%) WSUS
11 2 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.39%) Puppet
12 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 121 (23.54%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.73%) Splunk
3 21 (4.09%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.70%) Google
5 14 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
5 14 (2.72%) Veracode
5 14 (2.72%) VMware
6 13 (2.53%) Cisco
7 12 (2.33%) Apple
8 11 (2.14%) Oracle
9 10 (1.95%) CyberArk
9 10 (1.95%) Qualys
10 9 (1.75%) SAP
10 9 (1.75%) Zscaler
11 8 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.36%) Okta
12 7 (1.36%) Planview
13 6 (1.17%) Tenable
13 6 (1.17%) Veritas