Cyber Threat Contracts in London

Cyber Threats
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 325 386
Rank change year-on-year +16 +61 +146
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 44 66 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.12% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 49 71
10th Percentile £325 £473 £513
25th Percentile £471 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £623
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +0.40% +5.96%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £738
90th Percentile £708 £875 £813
England median daily rate £539 £590 £623
% change year-on-year -8.69% -5.22% +3.75%

All Generic Skills
London

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in London

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in London

Cyber Threat
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 Cyber Threat within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -5 4 £575 -11.54% 6
East London +16 2 £563 -10.00% 2
West London - 1 £525 - 3
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.27%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.55%) DHCP
3 2 (4.55%) DNS
3 2 (4.55%) FCoE
3 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (4.55%) HTTP
3 2 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
3 2 (4.55%) Network Security
3 2 (4.55%) SAN
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.27%) RTP
4 1 (2.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 9 (20.45%) Finance
2 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Military
6 2 (4.55%) Law
6 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Analyst
2 9 (20.45%) Security Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) Lead
3 4 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Consultant
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) QA Leader
4 3 (6.82%) Security Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Security Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Head of Operations
5 2 (4.55%) Head of Security
5 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 4 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (6.82%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.55%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (4.55%) Cyberattack
3 2 (4.55%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) BYOD
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) CSOC
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.27%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (4.55%) CentOS
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (47.73%) SIEM
3 17 (38.64%) Incident Response
4 12 (27.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 12 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
5 11 (25.00%) Threat Detection
6 10 (22.73%) Information Security
6 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (22.73%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (18.18%) SOAR
8 7 (15.91%) Agile
8 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (15.91%) Cyber Intelligence
8 7 (15.91%) Security Operations
9 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 6 (13.64%) Threat Management
10 5 (11.36%) Analytics
10 5 (11.36%) Data Protection
10 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
10 5 (11.36%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (2.27%) C++
5 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) CISM
3 5 (11.36%) CISSP
4 4 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.82%) GIAC
6 2 (4.55%) GCFA
6 2 (4.55%) GCIA
6 2 (4.55%) GCIH
7 1 (2.27%) CEH
7 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.27%) GPEN
7 1 (2.27%) GXPN
7 1 (2.27%) ISEB
7 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (18.18%) NIST
2 4 (9.09%) NCSC
3 3 (6.82%) GDPR
3 3 (6.82%) GRC
3 3 (6.82%) QA
4 2 (4.55%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.27%) ISO 31000
5 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.27%) SCCM
2 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Splunk
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco
3 3 (6.82%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (6.82%) Dell
3 3 (6.82%) F5
3 3 (6.82%) Hitachi
3 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.82%) VMware
4 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.27%) Alibaba
5 1 (2.27%) EMC
5 1 (2.27%) Exabeam
5 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.27%) Intel
5 1 (2.27%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.27%) Okta