Cybersecurity Contracts in Central London

Cybersecurity
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 44 49 97
Rank change year-on-year +5 +48 +1
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 111 152 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.61% 4.14% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 4.54% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 105 75
10th Percentile £406 £453 £400
25th Percentile £500 £525 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% +6.36%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £704
90th Percentile £835 £825 £783
London median daily rate £600 £643 £588
% change year-on-year -6.69% +9.45% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.25
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £31.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £30.12 £70.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -56.97% +129.51% -49.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,181 3,349 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.65% 91.28% 92.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 2,253 3,118
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +7.55%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Central London

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +9 105 £625 -3.85% 34
West End of London +4 3 £252 -19.30%
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.72%) Azure
2 8 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.31%) AWS
4 5 (4.50%) SaaS
5 4 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (3.60%) GCP
5 4 (3.60%) Mimecast
6 3 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub
7 2 (1.80%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) Network Security
2 8 (7.21%) Firewall
3 5 (4.50%) WAN
4 4 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.70%) Internet
5 3 (2.70%) VoIP
6 2 (1.80%) LAN
6 2 (1.80%) Softphone
6 2 (1.80%) Wireless
7 1 (0.90%) 5G
7 1 (0.90%) Broadband
7 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.90%) Big Data
1 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.90%) GitLab
2 1 (0.90%) GoCD
2 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.90%) JIRA
2 1 (0.90%) RStudio
2 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 42 (37.84%) Finance
2 22 (19.82%) Banking
2 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.71%) Financial Institution
5 8 (7.21%) International Banking
6 6 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.50%) Advertising
7 5 (4.50%) Legal
7 5 (4.50%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.80%) Marketing
10 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Law
10 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (16.22%) Analyst
1 18 (16.22%) Consultant
2 16 (14.41%) Architect
3 15 (13.51%) Senior
4 12 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 12 (10.81%) Security Consultant
5 11 (9.91%) Security Manager
6 10 (9.01%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 8 (7.21%) Security Analyst
7 8 (7.21%) Security Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Lead
9 6 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Security Project Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.80%) OpenID
2 1 (0.90%) JWT
2 1 (0.90%) Kafka
2 1 (0.90%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 11 (9.91%) Security Posture
3 10 (9.01%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.31%) PKI
6 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.70%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.80%) CMDB
8 2 (1.80%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.80%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.90%) CSOC
9 1 (0.90%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) NHS
9 1 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.11%) Windows
2 6 (5.41%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.73%) Information Security
2 22 (19.82%) Risk Management
3 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (13.51%) Agile
5 13 (11.71%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (11.71%) Security Operations
6 12 (10.81%) Cloud Security
7 11 (9.91%) Data Loss Prevention
8 10 (9.01%) Data Protection
8 10 (9.01%) Incident Response
8 10 (9.01%) Security Architecture
8 10 (9.01%) SIEM
9 9 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.21%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.21%) Migration
10 8 (7.21%) Project Management
11 7 (6.31%) Analytics
11 7 (6.31%) Process Improvement
11 7 (6.31%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.21%) Python
2 4 (3.60%) Java
3 3 (2.70%) C#
3 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.80%) Clojure
4 2 (1.80%) Go
4 2 (1.80%) Haskell
4 2 (1.80%) Rust
5 1 (0.90%) C
5 1 (0.90%) C++
5 1 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (16.22%) CISSP
2 17 (15.32%) CISM
3 9 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.21%) CRISC
5 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.50%) Degree
7 4 (3.60%) CISA
7 4 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.70%) GIAC
9 2 (1.80%) FFIEC
9 2 (1.80%) GCIA
9 2 (1.80%) GCIH
10 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.13%) NIST
2 23 (20.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (8.11%) PCI DSS
4 8 (7.21%) GDPR
5 7 (6.31%) GRC
6 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (2.70%) COBIT
7 3 (2.70%) ISO 31000
7 3 (2.70%) NCSC
7 3 (2.70%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.90%) QA
9 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.01%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.80%) Docker
3 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.80%) XenApp
4 1 (0.90%) Ceph
4 1 (0.90%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.41%) QRadar
2 5 (4.50%) CSIRT
3 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.80%) CASB
4 2 (1.80%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.80%) Nessus
4 2 (1.80%) SCCM
4 2 (1.80%) SCOrch
4 2 (1.80%) Terraform
5 1 (0.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.90%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.90%) Mesos
5 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.50%) Palo Alto
2 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.70%) Google
4 2 (1.80%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (1.80%) Citrix
4 2 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.80%) Darktrace
4 2 (1.80%) Imperva
4 2 (1.80%) McAfee
4 2 (1.80%) Netskope
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle
4 2 (1.80%) VMware
5 1 (0.90%) Avaya
5 1 (0.90%) BT
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco
5 1 (0.90%) IBM
5 1 (0.90%) Okta
5 1 (0.90%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.90%) Rapid7