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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 319 398
Rank change year-on-year -9 +79 +151
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 47 67 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 1.22% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 58
10th Percentile £358 £496 £461
25th Percentile £475 £563 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £609
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +2.63% +4.10%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £725
90th Percentile £690 £788 £793
England median daily rate £525 £650 £593
% change year-on-year -19.23% +9.57% -5.46%

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 5,116 5,470 8,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.27% 33.72% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 3,838 6,195
10th Percentile £335 £325 £360
25th Percentile £438 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £863 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 80 82
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.25 £18.06
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.00 £24.44
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.11 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -13.52% -1.94%
75th Percentile £45.75 £54.06 £53.56
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £77.38
England median hourly rate £31.00 £47.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.74% +17.02% +56.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -7 6 £525 -16.00% 4
East London - 2 £540 - 1
West London - 1 £525 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) AWS
2 11 (23.40%) Azure
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.38%) GCP
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.26%) SaaS
5 1 (2.13%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.13%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) FCoE
2 2 (4.26%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.26%) HTTP
2 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
2 2 (4.26%) SAN
2 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) DHCP
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) Internet
3 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) SMTP
3 1 (2.13%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
2 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Military
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Analyst
2 12 (25.53%) Security Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Security Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Security Operations Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Information Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Information Security Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) QA Leader
6 3 (6.38%) SIEM Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) SOC Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Head of Cybersecurity
7 2 (4.26%) Head of Operations
7 2 (4.26%) Head of Security
7 2 (4.26%) Security Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Security Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
1 1 (2.13%) OAuth
1 1 (2.13%) Resque
1 1 (2.13%) RESTful
1 1 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (2.13%) Sidekiq
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (6.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.13%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Linux
3 2 (4.26%) CentOS
4 1 (2.13%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (59.57%) Incident Response
3 21 (44.68%) SIEM
4 14 (29.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (29.79%) Threat Intelligence
5 12 (25.53%) Information Security
6 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (21.28%) Security Operations
8 9 (19.15%) Decision-Making
8 9 (19.15%) Threat Detection
9 8 (17.02%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 8 (17.02%) SOAR
9 8 (17.02%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (14.89%) Agile
10 7 (14.89%) Cyber Intelligence
10 7 (14.89%) Roadmaps
10 7 (14.89%) Threat Modelling
11 6 (12.77%) Migration
11 6 (12.77%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.64%) Bash
3 5 (10.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.26%) Java
5 1 (2.13%) C++
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.13%) Ruby
5 1 (2.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) SC Cleared
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) CISSP
3 5 (10.64%) CISM
4 4 (8.51%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.38%) GIAC
6 2 (4.26%) GCFA
6 2 (4.26%) GCIA
6 2 (4.26%) GCIH
6 2 (4.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (4.26%) OSCP
7 1 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.13%) CEH
7 1 (2.13%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (2.13%) CISA
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.13%) GPEN
7 1 (2.13%) GXPN
7 1 (2.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (19.15%) NIST
3 3 (6.38%) GRC
3 3 (6.38%) NCSC
3 3 (6.38%) QA
4 2 (4.26%) GDPR
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.13%) ISO 31000
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (2.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Snort
3 1 (2.13%) Squid
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Nessus
3 1 (2.13%) Nexpose
3 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.13%) Suricata
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) Splunk
3 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.51%) VMware
4 3 (6.38%) Cisco
4 3 (6.38%) Dell
4 3 (6.38%) F5
4 3 (6.38%) Hitachi
5 2 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.26%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.13%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.13%) EMC
6 1 (2.13%) FireEye
6 1 (2.13%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.13%) Intel
6 1 (2.13%) Qualys
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce