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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 60 80
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 567 1,002 1,244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.23% 3.98% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 4.38% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 710 854
10th Percentile £400 £450 £400
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £643 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.69% +9.45% +6.82%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £700
90th Percentile £800 £830 £788
England median daily rate £589 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.83% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £30.02 £63.60 -
25th Percentile £30.06 £66.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £30.12 £70.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.97% +129.51% -49.17%
75th Percentile £53.19 £81.88 £34.88
90th Percentile £67.02 £89.00 £39.55
England median hourly rate £81.27 £72.98 £35.50
% change year-on-year +11.35% +105.58% -29.00%

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 15,493 22,867 35,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.25% 90.91% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,090 16,561 26,167
10th Percentile £340 £375 £393
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £778
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.26
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 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
Central London +5 111 £625 -3.85% 40
East London +6 24 £627 -16.40% 9
West London -4 7 £525 -25.00% 9
South London +6 3 £713 +55.40% 1
North London +3 2 £380 -33.91% 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%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 11 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.53%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 113 (19.93%) Azure
2 82 (14.46%) AWS
3 43 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (6.00%) GCP
5 22 (3.88%) SaaS
6 18 (3.17%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (1.76%) GitHub
10 10 (1.76%) IaaS
11 6 (1.06%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.06%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.88%) PaaS
13 4 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (0.71%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.53%) Figma
14 3 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.52%) Firewall
2 34 (6.00%) Network Security
3 19 (3.35%) DNS
4 17 (3.00%) WAN
5 15 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.76%) HTTP
6 10 (1.76%) Internet
7 9 (1.59%) DHCP
7 9 (1.59%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (1.23%) LAN
10 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.88%) VPN
10 5 (0.88%) Wireless
11 4 (0.71%) VoIP
11 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.53%) FTP
12 3 (0.53%) IPsec
12 3 (0.53%) SSL
13 2 (0.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.29%) Big Data
2 12 (2.12%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.06%) Power BI
5 4 (0.71%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.18%) DB2
8 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 14 (2.47%) GitLab
3 10 (1.76%) JIRA
4 9 (1.59%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.41%) Subversion
6 5 (0.88%) Git
7 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.35%) Appium
8 2 (0.35%) Maven
8 2 (0.35%) Postman
8 2 (0.35%) RStudio
8 2 (0.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) GoCD
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 167 (29.45%) Finance
2 103 (18.17%) Social Skills
3 55 (9.70%) Banking
4 51 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.59%) Financial Institution
7 19 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.17%) Legal
9 13 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.76%) Retail
12 8 (1.41%) International Banking
12 8 (1.41%) Law
13 7 (1.23%) Advertising
14 6 (1.06%) Local Government
14 6 (1.06%) Marketing
15 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.88%) Police
16 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (17.64%) Analyst
1 100 (17.64%) Architect
2 81 (14.29%) Consultant
3 66 (11.64%) Security Architect
4 57 (10.05%) Security Consultant
5 56 (9.88%) Security Engineer
6 51 (8.99%) Security Manager
7 40 (7.05%) Security Analyst
8 39 (6.88%) Project Manager
9 38 (6.70%) Senior
10 32 (5.64%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 29 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 29 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 28 (4.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 26 (4.59%) Security Project Manager
14 24 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 22 (3.88%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
16 19 (3.35%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.35%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.29%) SailPoint
2 12 (2.12%) Middleware
2 12 (2.12%) OpenID
3 9 (1.59%) .NET
3 9 (1.59%) JWT
4 6 (1.06%) Kafka
4 6 (1.06%) OAuth
4 6 (1.06%) SAML
5 3 (0.53%) CSS
5 3 (0.53%) HTML
5 3 (0.53%) REST
5 3 (0.53%) RESTful
5 3 (0.53%) YAML
6 2 (0.35%) Bazel
6 2 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.35%) gRPC
6 2 (0.35%) Jinja
6 2 (0.35%) LDAP
6 2 (0.35%) Web Services
6 2 (0.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 41 (7.23%) Security Posture
3 30 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
4 28 (4.94%) Product Ownership
5 27 (4.76%) PKI
6 17 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
8 14 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.76%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.06%) Cyberattack
14 5 (0.88%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.88%) Cyber Security Posture
14 5 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.17%) Windows
2 49 (8.64%) Linux
3 18 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.59%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (21.87%) Information Security
2 81 (14.29%) SIEM
3 78 (13.76%) Agile
4 76 (13.40%) Cloud Security
5 73 (12.87%) Risk Management
6 66 (11.64%) Incident Response
6 66 (11.64%) Security Operations
7 65 (11.46%) Security Architecture
8 62 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (10.58%) DevOps
10 49 (8.64%) Identity Access Management
11 46 (8.11%) Roadmaps
12 43 (7.58%) Data Protection
13 42 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management
14 41 (7.23%) Business Strategy
15 40 (7.05%) Disaster Recovery
16 39 (6.88%) Project Management
16 39 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (6.70%) Penetration Testing
18 37 (6.53%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 54 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 44 (7.76%) Python
3 28 (4.94%) Java
4 24 (4.23%) C#
5 16 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.47%) SQL
7 13 (2.29%) C++
8 8 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.06%) Rust
10 5 (0.88%) Bash
10 5 (0.88%) Perl
11 4 (0.71%) Go
11 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) Clojure
12 2 (0.35%) Haskell
12 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.35%) R
12 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.18%) Swift
13 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 103 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 101 (17.81%) CISSP
3 83 (14.64%) SC Cleared
4 76 (13.40%) CISM
5 46 (8.11%) Degree
6 40 (7.05%) DV Cleared
7 33 (5.82%) CISA
8 19 (3.35%) CRISC
9 18 (3.17%) CEH
10 16 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.47%) GIAC
12 12 (2.12%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.76%) OSCP
13 10 (1.76%) SANS
14 8 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
15 7 (1.23%) GCIA
15 7 (1.23%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (18.52%) NIST
2 82 (14.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (5.64%) GDPR
4 26 (4.59%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.00%) GRC
6 16 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 15 (2.65%) NCSC
8 12 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.94%) COBIT
10 8 (1.41%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.41%) QA
11 6 (1.06%) ISO 22301
11 6 (1.06%) ISO 31000
11 6 (1.06%) SLA
12 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.53%) GPG13
14 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.59%) Docker
4 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) NFS
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
5 2 (0.35%) XenApp
6 1 (0.18%) Ceph
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (7.58%) Terraform
2 39 (6.88%) Ansible
3 25 (4.41%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.94%) Puppet
5 10 (1.76%) Nessus
6 9 (1.59%) CSIRT
6 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.23%) ArcSight ESM
7 7 (1.23%) BladeLogic
7 7 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
7 7 (1.23%) QRadar
7 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.88%) FortiGate
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%) Istio
11 2 (0.35%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 109 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.29%) Citrix
3 12 (2.12%) CyberArk
4 11 (1.94%) Cisco
4 11 (1.94%) Google
4 11 (1.94%) Oracle
5 10 (1.76%) Rapid7
5 10 (1.76%) Splunk
6 9 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 9 (1.59%) Qualys
7 8 (1.41%) ArcSight
7 8 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.23%) Altiris
8 7 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.06%) VMware
10 5 (0.88%) Darktrace
10 5 (0.88%) McAfee
10 5 (0.88%) Okta
10 5 (0.88%) SAP