Cybersecurity Contracts in West London

Cybersecurity
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 24 30 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 7 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 3.33% 3.66% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.17% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 25
10th Percentile £378 £318 £626
25th Percentile £400 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -25.00% +20.17%
75th Percentile £488 £563 -
90th Percentile £510 £676 £838
London median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 312 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.57% 87.89% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 223 383
10th Percentile £231 £215 £350
25th Percentile £339 £316 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £483 £575 £638
90th Percentile £628 £650 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 49
10th Percentile £18.99 £16.25 £29.60
25th Percentile £20.24 £16.56 £52.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -52.88% +176.58%
75th Percentile £30.79 £50.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.50 £85.00
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 West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in West London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in West London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in West London

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the West 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
Hounslow +7 2 £400 -40.52% 10
Hillingdon +5 2 £463 -7.50% 4
Wembley -3 1 - - 2
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP ERP
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) 5G
2 1 (14.29%) DECT
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Aviation
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Document Manager
2 1 (14.29%) ERP Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CCTV
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Life Science
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Document Management
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) SABSA
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) SOAR
2 1 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (14.29%) EMC
1 1 (14.29%) HP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Mitel
1 1 (14.29%) NetApp
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas
1 1 (14.29%) VMware