Cyber Essentials Contracts in Central London

Cyber Essentials
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 145 203
Rank change year-on-year +20 +58 -13
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.17% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.05% 1.08% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £443 £304 £493
25th Percentile £469 £438 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £663
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -32.08% +15.22%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £775
90th Percentile £660 £630 £895
London median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +23.81%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 381 462 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.30% 15.29% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 349 457
10th Percentile £349 £395 £363
25th Percentile £450 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £700
90th Percentile £750 £811 £812
London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile - - £16.65
25th Percentile - £71.25 £18.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £72.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.72% +137.70% +7.02%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £60.19
90th Percentile - - £62.25
London median hourly rate £35.00 £33.75 £26.65
% change year-on-year +3.70% +26.67% -1.31%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Central London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in Central London

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Central London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in Central London

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
City of London +27 4 £525 -12.50% 5
Cyber Essentials
London

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Information Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Security Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) e-Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk