Security Specialist Contracts in London

Security Specialist
England > London

The median Security Specialist daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 369 461
Rank change year-on-year +31 +92 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 15 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 15
10th Percentile - £340 £425
25th Percentile £513 £364 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £533 £570
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% -6.58% -4.60%
75th Percentile £663 £575 £644
90th Percentile £688 £670 £656
England median daily rate £600 £500 £591
% change year-on-year +20.00% -15.34% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £32.69
England median hourly rate £61.50 - £68.27
% change year-on-year - - +15.71%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Specialist in London

Security Specialist
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 Specialist 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 +3 3 £575 +69.12% 3
North London - 2 £650 -
Security Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Security Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Firewall
4 4 (26.67%) CISSP
4 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) CISM
5 3 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (20.00%) SIEM
5 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 2 (13.33%) NIST
6 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (13.33%) GDPR
6 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
6 2 (13.33%) Tenable
6 2 (13.33%) Infographics
6 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (13.33%) Threat Detection

Security Specialist 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 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) IPsec
3 1 (6.67%) MPLS
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Local Government
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (13.33%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Analytics
2 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Infographics
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (13.33%) Threat Detection
4 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Time Management
5 1 (6.67%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CISSP
2 3 (20.00%) CISM
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CCNA
4 1 (6.67%) CEH
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) Nessus
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Qualys
2 2 (13.33%) Tenable
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Okta
3 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Tripwire