CompTIA Security+ Contract Job Trends in West London

CompTIA Security+
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.33% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £500 £625 £275
% change year-on-year -20.00% +127.27% -54.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West London

CompTIA Security+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in West London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 95 38 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 31.05% 17.76% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 80
10th Percentile £204 £151 £246
25th Percentile £205 £213 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -31.82% +21.21%
75th Percentile £438 £471 £638
90th Percentile £505 £594 £653
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 5
10th Percentile £19.54 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% -62.88% +61.20%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile £25.93 £68.91 £69.20
London median hourly rate £25.47 £37.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -31.62% -29.05% +11.70%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

CompTIA Security+ job vacancy trend in West London

CompTIA Security+
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing CompTIA Security+.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CompTIA Security+ within the West London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Hillingdon - 1 - - 1
CompTIA Security+
London

CompTIA Security+
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable