Information Security Contract Job Trends in London

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 130 109
Rank change year-on-year -21 -21 +22
Contract jobs citing Information Security 270 308 429
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 2.05% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.27% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 187 330
10th Percentile £413 £404 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £700 £697 £725
90th Percentile £823 £842 £800
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile - £15.23 £13.61
25th Percentile - £17.67 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £14.18
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +48.10% -62.19%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 £18.93
90th Percentile £77.00 £35.70 £22.55
England median hourly rate £33.50 £22.09 £50.00
% change year-on-year +51.65% -55.82% -23.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Information Security 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 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Information Security job vacancy trend in London

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Security

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in London

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Security

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in London

Information Security
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 Information Security within the London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 -21 37 £600 - 24
South London - 9 £538 -
East London 0 1 £625 +4.17% 4
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 15 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.22%) Confluence
3 6 (2.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.37%) Navisworks
5 1 (0.37%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.37%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.74%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.74%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 72 (26.67%) Azure
2 33 (12.22%) AWS
3 27 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (7.04%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.07%) GCP
6 9 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (3.33%) SaaS
7 8 (2.96%) OneDrive
8 7 (2.59%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.11%) PaaS
11 2 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.74%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.74%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.37%) dbt
12 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.07%) Firewall
2 14 (5.19%) Network Security
2 14 (5.19%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.44%) DNS
4 10 (3.70%) DHCP
4 10 (3.70%) WAN
5 9 (3.33%) VPN
6 8 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.48%) NGFW
8 4 (1.48%) SSH
9 3 (1.11%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (1.11%) HTTP
9 3 (1.11%) SAN
10 2 (0.74%) Internet
10 2 (0.74%) LAN
10 2 (0.74%) Modbus
10 2 (0.74%) SMTP
11 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.22%) Power BI
2 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.74%) DB2
3 2 (0.74%) EDRMS
3 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.74%) Tableau
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.37%) Metadata
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.37%) Power Query
4 1 (0.37%) QGIS
4 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (3.70%) JIRA
2 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
2 3 (1.11%) Git
2 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.37%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.37%) GCC
4 1 (0.37%) MSI
4 1 (0.37%) Snyk
4 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 95 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 87 (32.22%) Finance
3 36 (13.33%) Banking
4 34 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.30%) Legal
7 9 (3.33%) Military
8 7 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.59%) Law
8 7 (2.59%) Local Government
8 7 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.22%) Spanish Language
10 5 (1.85%) Retail
10 5 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.11%) Police
12 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (17.78%) Analyst
2 32 (11.85%) Consultant
3 26 (9.63%) Senior
4 25 (9.26%) Architect
5 23 (8.52%) Security Engineer
6 19 (7.04%) Security Manager
7 18 (6.67%) Security Analyst
8 17 (6.30%) Lead
9 14 (5.19%) Security Architect
9 14 (5.19%) Support Analyst
10 13 (4.81%) Coordinator
11 12 (4.44%) Security Specialist
12 10 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) IT Manager
13 9 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.33%) Security Consultant
14 8 (2.96%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) Operations Support Analyst
14 8 (2.96%) SharePoint Analyst
14 8 (2.96%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.96%) OpenID
2 7 (2.59%) SailPoint
2 7 (2.59%) SAML
3 4 (1.48%) OAuth
4 3 (1.11%) LDAP
4 3 (1.11%) Middleware
4 3 (1.11%) REST
5 2 (0.74%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.74%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.37%) EDI
6 1 (0.37%) FHIR
6 1 (0.37%) HATEOAS
6 1 (0.37%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.37%) React
6 1 (0.37%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.37%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 54 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 33 (12.22%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.19%) PKI
4 13 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.48%) CMDB
9 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.48%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.11%) NHS
10 3 (1.11%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.74%) Blackberry
11 2 (0.74%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.00%) Windows
2 15 (5.56%) Linux
3 12 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.19%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (25.56%) Risk Management
3 52 (19.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (14.44%) Cloud Security
6 38 (14.07%) Incident Response
7 36 (13.33%) Agile
8 33 (12.22%) ITIL
9 32 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (11.11%) Data Protection
10 30 (11.11%) Security Operations
11 26 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (9.26%) SIEM
13 24 (8.89%) Security Management
14 23 (8.52%) Due Diligence
15 22 (8.15%) Identity Access Management
15 22 (8.15%) Security Architecture
16 21 (7.78%) Information Security Management
16 21 (7.78%) ISMS
17 19 (7.04%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.63%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.41%) SQL
3 17 (6.30%) Python
4 5 (1.85%) Bash
5 3 (1.11%) Java
5 3 (1.11%) R
6 2 (0.74%) C#
6 2 (0.74%) Go
6 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.37%) PHP
7 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (21.85%) CISSP
2 48 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 42 (15.56%) Degree
4 37 (13.70%) CISM
5 28 (10.37%) SC Cleared
6 19 (7.04%) CISA
7 15 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 13 (4.81%) DV Cleared
9 11 (4.07%) CRISC
10 10 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.96%) ISACA
13 7 (2.59%) Azure Certification
14 6 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (2.22%) IISP
14 6 (2.22%) Master's Degree
15 5 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.85%) CEH
15 5 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (25.19%) NIST
3 45 (16.67%) GDPR
4 23 (8.52%) GRC
5 11 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.07%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.33%) COBIT
7 5 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.85%) NCSC
7 5 (1.85%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.85%) PMO
8 4 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (1.11%) QA
10 2 (0.74%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.74%) PERC
System Software
1 36 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Docker
4 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (6.30%) SCCM
2 16 (5.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (3.70%) QRadar
4 8 (2.96%) Ansible
4 8 (2.96%) HP SiteScope
4 8 (2.96%) SCOM
5 7 (2.59%) CASB
5 7 (2.59%) SCOrch
6 6 (2.22%) WSUS
7 5 (1.85%) Terraform
8 4 (1.48%) CSIRT
8 4 (1.48%) Kubernetes
9 3 (1.11%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.37%) Grafana
11 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 65 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.93%) Splunk
3 12 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.70%) Remedy
5 8 (2.96%) Cisco
5 8 (2.96%) CyberArk
5 8 (2.96%) Fortinet
5 8 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.59%) Sophos
7 6 (2.22%) Google
7 6 (2.22%) Qualys
8 5 (1.85%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.85%) SAP
9 4 (1.48%) Ariba
9 4 (1.48%) Oracle
9 4 (1.48%) Tenable
9 4 (1.48%) VMware
10 3 (1.11%) Citrix
10 3 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.11%) IBM