Cybersecurity Contracts in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 63 88
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 583 1,053 1,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.28% 3.91% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 4.29% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 725 782
10th Percentile £406 £450 £400
25th Percentile £489 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £820 £788
England median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% +4.39% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £62.20 £22.03
25th Percentile - £62.50 £25.20
Median hourly rate £30.12 £67.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.38% +145.45% -54.17%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £33.94
90th Percentile - £84.75 £38.85
England median hourly rate £83.63 £67.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year +23.90% +70.89% -16.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,770 24,518 35,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 91.07% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,304 17,620 26,197
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 277 426
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.58 £17.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.75 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +6.43% +12.03%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.95 £67.81
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Central London +17 110 £625 -3.85% 36
East London +6 26 £650 -13.33% 11
West London -1 13 £525 -25.00% 19
South London +10 2 £675 +3.85% 3
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (1.89%) Confluence
1 11 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.69%) CMS
4 2 (0.34%) Apache
4 2 (0.34%) IIS
4 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.34%) nginx
4 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.51%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (22.81%) Azure
2 81 (13.89%) AWS
3 46 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (5.32%) GCP
5 22 (3.77%) Entra ID
5 22 (3.77%) SaaS
6 19 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (1.72%) IaaS
10 9 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.54%) GitHub
11 7 (1.20%) Mimecast
11 7 (1.20%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.69%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.69%) Serverless
13 4 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (9.78%) Firewall
2 36 (6.17%) Network Security
3 21 (3.60%) WAN
4 14 (2.40%) DNS
5 13 (2.23%) SD-WAN
6 12 (2.06%) LAN
6 12 (2.06%) Wireless
7 11 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.89%) VPN
8 8 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (1.20%) HTTP
10 6 (1.03%) Internet
10 6 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.03%) WLAN
11 5 (0.86%) DHCP
12 4 (0.69%) IPsec
13 3 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
13 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.51%) SSL
13 3 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.57%) Big Data
2 13 (2.23%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.20%) Power BI
5 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.17%) DB2
7 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.17%) MySQL
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.57%) GitLab
3 9 (1.54%) Artifactory
3 9 (1.54%) Git
4 8 (1.37%) Subversion
5 7 (1.20%) JIRA
6 3 (0.51%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.51%) Xcode
7 2 (0.34%) Maven
7 2 (0.34%) RStudio
7 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.17%) Appium
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.17%) JMeter
8 1 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 175 (30.02%) Finance
2 112 (19.21%) Social Skills
3 54 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (8.06%) Banking
6 29 (4.97%) Financial Institution
7 18 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.92%) Legal
9 13 (2.23%) Law
10 9 (1.54%) Local Government
10 9 (1.54%) Retail
11 8 (1.37%) Advertising
11 8 (1.37%) International Banking
11 8 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.03%) Marketing
12 6 (1.03%) Police
13 5 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (18.70%) Analyst
2 100 (17.15%) Architect
3 76 (13.04%) Consultant
4 60 (10.29%) Security Architect
5 53 (9.09%) Security Consultant
6 52 (8.92%) Security Analyst
7 49 (8.40%) Security Engineer
8 46 (7.89%) Security Manager
9 42 (7.20%) Project Manager
9 42 (7.20%) Senior
10 31 (5.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 31 (5.32%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 27 (4.63%) Security Project Manager
12 26 (4.46%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 25 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 25 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 21 (3.60%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
15 19 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.40%) SailPoint
2 11 (1.89%) Middleware
3 9 (1.54%) .NET
4 5 (0.86%) OAuth
5 4 (0.69%) HTML
5 4 (0.69%) JSON
5 4 (0.69%) Kafka
5 4 (0.69%) LDAP
5 4 (0.69%) OpenID
5 4 (0.69%) REST
5 4 (0.69%) SAML
6 3 (0.51%) CSS
6 3 (0.51%) iOS SDK
6 3 (0.51%) RESTful
6 3 (0.51%) YAML
7 2 (0.34%) J2EE
7 2 (0.34%) Jinja
7 2 (0.34%) SPML
7 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 2 (0.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 42 (7.20%) Security Posture
3 35 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (4.97%) PKI
5 19 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.57%) Data Centre
8 14 (2.40%) Operational Technology
8 14 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
9 12 (2.06%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.89%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.37%) IoT
13 7 (1.20%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 7 (1.20%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.03%) Cyber Security Posture
14 6 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.78%) Linux
2 54 (9.26%) Windows
3 16 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.72%) Unix
5 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.34%) CentOS
6 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (21.96%) Information Security
2 91 (15.61%) Agile
3 81 (13.89%) Risk Management
4 79 (13.55%) SIEM
5 70 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (11.15%) Cloud Security
6 65 (11.15%) Incident Response
7 64 (10.98%) DevOps
7 64 (10.98%) Security Architecture
8 61 (10.46%) Security Operations
9 50 (8.58%) Roadmaps
10 49 (8.40%) Identity Access Management
11 46 (7.89%) Project Management
12 44 (7.55%) Data Protection
12 44 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
14 40 (6.86%) Business Strategy
14 40 (6.86%) Penetration Testing
14 40 (6.86%) Vulnerability Management
15 38 (6.52%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.12%) PowerShell
2 48 (8.23%) Python
3 30 (5.15%) C#
4 19 (3.26%) Java
5 18 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.40%) SQL
7 10 (1.72%) C++
8 7 (1.20%) Go
8 7 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.03%) Rust
10 5 (0.86%) Bash
11 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.69%) Swift
12 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.34%) Clojure
13 2 (0.34%) Haskell
13 2 (0.34%) Perl
13 2 (0.34%) R
13 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 103 (17.67%) CISSP
2 102 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 80 (13.72%) CISM
4 74 (12.69%) SC Cleared
5 49 (8.40%) DV Cleared
6 47 (8.06%) Degree
7 42 (7.20%) CISA
8 26 (4.46%) CRISC
9 20 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (3.26%) CEH
11 14 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (2.23%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.23%) OSCP
13 12 (2.06%) GIAC
14 11 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.72%) SANS
16 8 (1.37%) CREST Certified
16 8 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
17 7 (1.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (19.73%) NIST
2 88 (15.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (5.15%) GDPR
4 29 (4.97%) PCI DSS
5 25 (4.29%) GRC
6 21 (3.60%) NCSC
7 16 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 14 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.89%) COBIT
9 11 (1.89%) ISO 31000
9 11 (1.89%) NIST 800
10 7 (1.20%) QA
11 6 (1.03%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.86%) SLA
13 4 (0.69%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.51%) GPG13
14 3 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 37 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.54%) Docker
3 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.34%) NFS
4 2 (0.34%) XenApp
5 1 (0.17%) Ceph
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (8.23%) Terraform
2 44 (7.55%) Ansible
3 20 (3.43%) Kubernetes
4 15 (2.57%) Puppet
5 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.37%) Nessus
6 7 (1.20%) ArcSight ESM
6 7 (1.20%) BladeLogic
6 7 (1.20%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (1.03%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.86%) QRadar
9 4 (0.69%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.51%) WSUS
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.34%) Packer
11 2 (0.34%) SCCM
11 2 (0.34%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 110 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 17 (2.92%) Cisco
3 15 (2.57%) Palo Alto
3 15 (2.57%) Splunk
4 14 (2.40%) Citrix
5 13 (2.23%) CyberArk
6 11 (1.89%) Rapid7
7 10 (1.72%) ArcSight
7 10 (1.72%) Qualys
8 9 (1.54%) Google
8 9 (1.54%) Oracle
9 8 (1.37%) Darktrace
10 7 (1.20%) Altiris
10 7 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.20%) VMware
11 6 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.86%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.86%) Juniper
12 5 (0.86%) McAfee
12 5 (0.86%) ServiceNow