Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in West London

Cybersecurity
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 34 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 +9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 7 4 41
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.63% 1.48% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 1.65% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 37
10th Percentile £308 £363 £320
25th Percentile £375 £419 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -25.00% +31.46%
75th Percentile £472 £619 £838
90th Percentile £511 £668 £843
London median daily rate £600 £600 £613
% change year-on-year - -2.04% +2.08%

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 231 242 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.84% 89.30% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 173 394
10th Percentile £210 £250 £250
25th Percentile £331 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £554
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -14.22% +7.52%
75th Percentile £500 £577 £648
90th Percentile £558 £638 £775
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 20
10th Percentile £25.00 £19.44 £39.19
25th Percentile - £23.04 £57.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.05 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.13% -52.72% +278.95%
75th Percentile £33.58 £65.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £43.00 £71.50 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £39.63
% change year-on-year -18.14% -7.51% +9.31%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in West London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in West London over the 6 months to 7 October 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 7 October 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 - 3 - - 8
Richmond upon Thames +10 1 £525 +50.00% 4
Hounslow +1 1 £425 -39.29% 4
Harrow - 1 £275 - 7
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) 5G
2 1 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) WLAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aviation
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) CCTV
2 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP