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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 56 88
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 +3
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 567 1,060 1,198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.24% 4.07% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 4.48% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 747 815
10th Percentile £406 £450 £400
25th Percentile £493 £525 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +8.51% +8.05%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £824 £788
England median daily rate £581 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -5.10% +6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £62.15 -
25th Percentile - £62.38 £26.25
Median hourly rate £30.12 £67.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.38% +126.89% -50.42%
75th Percentile - £75.94 £35.81
90th Percentile - £86.63 £40.25
England median hourly rate £83.63 £71.49 £42.50
% change year-on-year +16.98% +68.21% -15.00%

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 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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 20 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 20 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 +7 115 £625 -3.85% 36
East London +6 23 £640 -14.67% 94
West London -8 9 £525 -25.00% 13
South London +4 2 £675 +47.22% 4
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 12 (2.12%) Confluence
2 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) IIS
4 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.35%) nginx
4 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.53%) Trello
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (21.34%) Azure
2 78 (13.76%) AWS
3 42 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (4.76%) GCP
5 21 (3.70%) SaaS
6 20 (3.53%) Entra ID
7 16 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 14 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (1.59%) GitHub
11 8 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.41%) IaaS
12 7 (1.23%) Mimecast
12 7 (1.23%) Power Platform
13 5 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.71%) Serverless
15 3 (0.53%) Figma
15 3 (0.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 3 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 56 (9.88%) Firewall
2 35 (6.17%) Network Security
3 20 (3.53%) WAN
4 14 (2.47%) DNS
5 12 (2.12%) SD-WAN
5 12 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.76%) LAN
7 9 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (1.41%) HTTP
8 8 (1.41%) Internet
9 7 (1.23%) VPN
9 7 (1.23%) Wireless
10 6 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.88%) DHCP
11 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.71%) IPsec
12 4 (0.71%) VoIP
12 4 (0.71%) WLAN
13 3 (0.53%) SSL
14 2 (0.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.47%) Big Data
2 12 (2.12%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.23%) Power BI
5 4 (0.71%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) DB2
7 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.65%) GitLab
3 9 (1.59%) Artifactory
4 8 (1.41%) Git
4 8 (1.41%) JIRA
4 8 (1.41%) Subversion
5 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.53%) Xcode
6 2 (0.35%) Maven
6 2 (0.35%) RStudio
6 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.18%) Appium
7 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.18%) JMeter
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 172 (30.34%) Finance
2 111 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 53 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.47%) Banking
4 48 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 18 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (2.82%) Legal
8 15 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.94%) Law
10 9 (1.59%) Retail
11 8 (1.41%) International Banking
11 8 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.23%) Advertising
13 6 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.06%) Local Government
14 5 (0.88%) Police
15 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 106 (18.69%) Analyst
2 104 (18.34%) Architect
3 72 (12.70%) Consultant
4 66 (11.64%) Security Architect
5 54 (9.52%) Security Engineer
6 49 (8.64%) Security Consultant
7 47 (8.29%) Security Analyst
7 47 (8.29%) Security Manager
8 40 (7.05%) Project Manager
9 39 (6.88%) Senior
10 31 (5.47%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 29 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 27 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 26 (4.59%) Security Project Manager
14 25 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 24 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 22 (3.88%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
17 19 (3.35%) Business Analyst
17 19 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
18 18 (3.17%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.47%) SailPoint
2 12 (2.12%) Middleware
3 10 (1.76%) .NET
4 6 (1.06%) OAuth
5 5 (0.88%) Kafka
5 5 (0.88%) REST
5 5 (0.88%) SAML
6 4 (0.71%) HTML
6 4 (0.71%) JSON
6 4 (0.71%) LDAP
6 4 (0.71%) OpenID
7 3 (0.53%) CSS
7 3 (0.53%) iOS SDK
7 3 (0.53%) RESTful
7 3 (0.53%) Web Services
7 3 (0.53%) YAML
8 2 (0.35%) J2EE
8 2 (0.35%) Jinja
8 2 (0.35%) SPML
8 2 (0.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.99%) Management Information System
2 43 (7.58%) Security Posture
3 33 (5.82%) Cyber Threat
4 28 (4.94%) PKI
5 21 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.47%) Operational Technology
8 13 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
9 12 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (1.23%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (1.06%) IoT
13 6 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.88%) Linux
2 51 (8.99%) Windows
3 16 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.94%) Unix
5 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (24.16%) Information Security
2 83 (14.64%) Risk Management
3 81 (14.29%) Agile
4 74 (13.05%) SIEM
5 70 (12.35%) Cloud Security
6 68 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (11.64%) Incident Response
7 66 (11.64%) Security Architecture
7 66 (11.64%) Security Operations
8 63 (11.11%) DevOps
9 52 (9.17%) Identity Access Management
10 49 (8.64%) Roadmaps
11 44 (7.76%) Vulnerability Management
12 42 (7.41%) Business Strategy
12 42 (7.41%) Data Protection
13 40 (7.05%) Project Management
14 39 (6.88%) Data Loss Prevention
14 39 (6.88%) Penetration Testing
15 38 (6.70%) Disaster Recovery
15 38 (6.70%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.88%) PowerShell
2 46 (8.11%) Python
3 27 (4.76%) C#
4 21 (3.70%) Java
5 18 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.47%) SQL
7 13 (2.29%) C++
8 7 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.06%) Rust
10 5 (0.88%) Bash
10 5 (0.88%) Go
11 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.71%) Swift
12 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.53%) Perl
13 2 (0.35%) Clojure
13 2 (0.35%) Haskell
13 2 (0.35%) R
13 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 105 (18.52%) CISSP
2 101 (17.81%) Security Cleared
3 80 (14.11%) CISM
4 76 (13.40%) SC Cleared
5 48 (8.47%) Degree
6 47 (8.29%) DV Cleared
7 38 (6.70%) CISA
8 23 (4.06%) CRISC
9 19 (3.35%) CEH
9 19 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (2.29%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (1.94%) OSCP
13 10 (1.76%) GIAC
13 10 (1.76%) SANS
14 8 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
15 7 (1.23%) PMI Certification
16 6 (1.06%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (19.75%) NIST
2 89 (15.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (5.11%) GDPR
4 27 (4.76%) PCI DSS
5 23 (4.06%) GRC
6 20 (3.53%) NCSC
7 16 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 14 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (2.12%) COBIT
10 9 (1.59%) ISO 31000
10 9 (1.59%) NIST 800
11 8 (1.41%) QA
12 6 (1.06%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.88%) SLA
14 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.53%) GPG13
15 3 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 31 (5.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.59%) Docker
3 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) NFS
5 2 (0.35%) XenApp
6 1 (0.18%) Ceph
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (7.94%) Terraform
2 41 (7.23%) Ansible
3 20 (3.53%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.12%) Puppet
5 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.41%) Nessus
6 7 (1.23%) ArcSight ESM
6 7 (1.23%) BladeLogic
6 7 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (1.06%) CSIRT
7 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.88%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.88%) QRadar
9 4 (0.71%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.71%) SCCM
10 3 (0.53%) CASB
10 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.53%) WSUS
11 2 (0.35%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.35%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 104 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.47%) CyberArk
3 13 (2.29%) Citrix
4 12 (2.12%) Cisco
4 12 (2.12%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.12%) Splunk
5 11 (1.94%) Rapid7
6 10 (1.76%) Oracle
6 10 (1.76%) Qualys
7 9 (1.59%) ArcSight
8 8 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (1.41%) Google
9 7 (1.23%) Altiris
9 7 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.06%) Darktrace
11 5 (0.88%) McAfee
11 5 (0.88%) VMware
12 4 (0.71%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.71%) Juniper