Cybersecurity Contracts in South London

Cybersecurity
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity 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 14 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 21 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 11.35% 0.83% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.96% 0.88% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 1
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £463 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £538 £713 £675
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +8.70%
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 £73.60 £30.12 £67.50
% change year-on-year +144.36% -55.38% +145.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in South London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in South London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in South London

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity 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 +20 15 £475 -29.63% 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 5 - - 1
Merton - 4 £525 - 1
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (9.52%) LAN
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) NAS
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Games
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Local Government
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 6 (28.57%) Security Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Operations Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 3 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
3 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
3 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.52%) Cyber Assurance
5 2 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
5 2 (9.52%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
6 1 (4.76%) Agile
6 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (4.76%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.76%) Network Design
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.76%) TOGAF
6 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) CISM
2 2 (9.52%) CRISC
2 2 (9.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.76%) GIAC
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (19.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (19.05%) NIST
3 3 (14.29%) GDPR
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Dell
3 1 (4.76%) EMC
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) SonicWALL