Security Administrator Contracts in London

Security Administrator
England > London

The median Security Administrator daily rate in London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 393 465
Rank change year-on-year +46 +72 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Security Administrator 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.006% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.006% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £338 - £241
25th Percentile £356 - £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £338
Median % change year-on-year - - -51.79%
75th Percentile £481 - £389
90th Percentile £493 - £400
England median daily rate £500 £475 £338
% change year-on-year +5.26% +40.74% -44.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,802 16,538 23,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,993 11,885 17,371
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 321 274
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.56 £46.48 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.38 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

Security Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Security Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Administrator in London

Security Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Administrator in London

Security Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Administrator in London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Administrator in London

Security Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Administrator in London

Security Administrator
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 Security Administrator within the London region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
West London - 2 £375 - 3
Security Administrator
England

Security Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Security Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Security Administrator in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP

Security Administrator Skill Set
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) WALLIX