Cyber Defence Contracts in the City of London

Cyber Defence
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 147 196
Rank change year-on-year +22 +49 -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.094% 0.11% 0.045%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.34% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £800
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £775 - £850
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £750 £600 £800
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% -

All Generic Skills
City of London

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 646 871 1,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.43% 31.36% 38.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 566 1,034
10th Percentile £375 £313 £363
25th Percentile £471 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.65%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £738
90th Percentile £838 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £590 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.13% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 28
10th Percentile £32.05 £17.00 £18.66
25th Percentile £39.63 £17.97 £21.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £36.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -30.10% +41.10%
75th Percentile £76.13 £49.88 £62.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £68.75 £82.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £27.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -1.82% -45.54% +38.36%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the City of London

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the City of London

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) OpenVAS
1 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AlienVault
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm