Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 475 610
Rank change year-on-year +85 +135 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 3 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.047% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.050% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - £490 £531
25th Percentile - £600 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £694
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -11.71% +16.84%
75th Percentile - £650 £798
90th Percentile - £691 £852
England median daily rate £538 £600 £461
% change year-on-year -10.42% +30.22% -22.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South London - 1 - -
Cybersecurity Specialist
England

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cybersecurity Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (33.33%) Mimecast
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (33.33%) Darktrace
3 1 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Red Team
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Team

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Team
3 1 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Information Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Red Team
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Darktrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys