SANS Contract Job Trends in London

SANS Institute
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 361 372
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +171
Contract jobs citing SANS 11 12 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.076% 0.079% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% 0.31% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 20
10th Percentile £480 £548 £525
25th Percentile £511 £600 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £758 £750 £771
90th Percentile £965 £765 £825
England median daily rate £537 £650 £673
% change year-on-year -17.38% -3.38% +17.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,073 3,906 4,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.31% 25.68% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,467 2,985
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 57 89
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.75 £19.20
25th Percentile - £27.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -28.57% +11.70%
75th Percentile £53.13 £60.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +16.67%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SANS job vacancy trend in London

SANS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SANS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SANS

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in London

SANS
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 SANS within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +7 3 £563 -
South London - 3 £525 -
SANS
England

SANS
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 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) OCI
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) VLAN
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Burp Suite
2 2 (18.18%) Metasploit
2 2 (18.18%) sqlmap
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Head of Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Information
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Security
3 1 (9.09%) Security Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technology Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Technology Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Security Posture
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
4 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
2 6 (54.55%) Application Security
2 6 (54.55%) OWASP
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Security Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) DevSecOps
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (27.27%) Decision Tree
5 3 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Information Security
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (27.27%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CISSP
1 6 (54.55%) OSCP
2 3 (27.27%) CEH
2 3 (27.27%) CISA
2 3 (27.27%) CISM
2 3 (27.27%) CREST Certified
2 3 (27.27%) GIAC
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) GPEN
3 2 (18.18%) GSEC
3 2 (18.18%) GXPN
3 2 (18.18%) ISACA
3 2 (18.18%) OSCE
3 2 (18.18%) SSCP
4 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CRISC
4 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (63.64%) NIST
3 4 (36.36%) NIST 800
4 1 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (9.09%) GRC
4 1 (9.09%) NCSC
4 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Nessus
1 2 (18.18%) Nmap
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Rapid7
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) Qualys
2 1 (9.09%) Tenable