Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Cybersecurity
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 5.97% - 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% - 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £583 - -
25th Percentile £599 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £252
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £665 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +3.19% -11.17% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West End of 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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 36 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 92.54% 87.80% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 29
10th Percentile £228 £233 £233
25th Percentile £400 £384 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £628 £675 £550
90th Percentile £675 £793 £623
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £42.09 £43.55 £28.28
25th Percentile £51.50 £46.57 £32.60
Median hourly rate £57.50 £49.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% +41.43% +34.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.10 £36.81
90th Percentile £78.75 £51.74 £40.08
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.06% -16.94% +27.27%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in West End of London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Westminster - 1 £675 - 9
Cybersecurity
Central London

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) SIAM
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NCSC
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple