Cyber Essentials Contracts in South London

Cyber Essentials
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.16% 0.41% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.39% 6.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £290 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
London median daily rate £469 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -6.25% -14.89% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70.24 - -
25th Percentile £72.40 - -
Median hourly rate £78.40 - -
75th Percentile £82.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £78.40 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South London

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 23 15 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 12.43% 6.20% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 34
10th Percentile £213 - £131
25th Percentile £240 £200 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £428 £428
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% - -14.50%
75th Percentile £522 £533 £568
90th Percentile £624 £616 £716
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70.24 - -
25th Percentile £72.40 - -
Median hourly rate £78.40 - -
75th Percentile £82.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in South London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in South London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in South London

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in South London

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the South 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
Croydon +8 2 £375 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 - -
Merton - 2 - -
Cyber Essentials
London

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Assurance
3 2 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Compliance Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CRISC
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) GDPR
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (25.00%) VMware