Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in South London

Cybersecurity
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 3.06% 2.84% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 3.26% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £508 £474 -
25th Percentile £511 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £267
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +124.81% -49.14%
75th Percentile £563 £750 -
90th Percentile £608 £795 -
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.60 -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -18.26% -8.00% +27.55%

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 173 184 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.27% 87.20% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 122 164
10th Percentile £266 £226 £195
25th Percentile £419 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.69% -7.05%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £709 £760 £650
London median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 18
10th Percentile - - £15.59
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.81
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £46.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -58.39% +6.85%
75th Percentile £40.54 £35.91 £55.00
90th Percentile £54.08 £61.41 £69.00
London median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.67% +3.21% -3.11%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in South London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cybersecurity

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 18 November 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 0 4 £525 -25.00% 6
Kingston Upon Thames 0 1 - - 10
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) QA Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) CSOC
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) OWASP
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Application Security
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Decision Tree
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) CREST Certified
2 4 (66.67%) SANS
3 3 (50.00%) CEH
3 3 (50.00%) OSCP
4 1 (16.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk