Security Specialist Contracts in London

Security Specialist
England > London

The median Security Specialist daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 July 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
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 363 421
Rank change year-on-year +10 +58 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 18 27 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 33
10th Percentile £485 £418 £425
25th Percentile £513 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £715 £770
England median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £32.69
England median hourly rate £61.50 £93.00 £68.27
% change year-on-year -33.88% +36.22% +8.37%

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 12,647 15,465 23,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 94.23% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,562 10,999 17,046
10th Percentile £329 £343 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 220 249
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.00 £23.46
Median hourly rate £29.54 £32.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% -14.28% +15.03%
75th Percentile £50.38 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.31 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £43.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -39.53% -1.58% +70.73%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +4 2 £588 -2.08% 1
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 30 July 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 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (27.78%) AWS
4 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 4 (22.22%) Firewall
5 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 4 (22.22%) Azure
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Information Security
6 3 (16.67%) CISM
6 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 3 (16.67%) CISSP
6 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) Qualys
6 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (11.11%) Threat Detection
7 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (11.11%) GCP

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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.56%) NAS
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) NGFW
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Local Government
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Regular Expression
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
3 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (16.67%) Information Security
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Data Security
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Information Assurance
6 2 (11.11%) ISMS
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CISM
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CEH
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Nessus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Qualys
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Tenable
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) NetApp
4 1 (5.56%) Okta
4 1 (5.56%) Ping Identity
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Tripwire
4 1 (5.56%) Varonis
4 1 (5.56%) VMware