Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 418 564
Rank change year-on-year +52 +146 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 27 69 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 50 37
10th Percentile £378 £474 £360
25th Percentile £420 £569 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% +5.26%
75th Percentile £641 £786 £725
90th Percentile £650 £800 £750
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +26 7 £550 -8.33% 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (33.33%) SIEM
4 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
4 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (29.63%) Security Posture
5 7 (25.93%) Incident Response
5 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
5 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (22.22%) CISSP
7 5 (18.52%) NIST
7 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (18.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (18.52%) Threat Detection
8 4 (14.81%) Threat Analysis
8 4 (14.81%) QRadar
8 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
8 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.81%) Degree
8 4 (14.81%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.81%) CISM
8 4 (14.81%) Log Aggregation
8 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (14.81%) Functional Safety
8 4 (14.81%) Safety Engineering
9 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
9 3 (11.11%) Public Sector

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.70%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DHCP
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) FTP
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
2 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Law
3 1 (3.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) HTML5
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Insider Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (33.33%) SIEM
3 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) Incident Response
5 5 (18.52%) Threat Detection
5 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Log Aggregation
6 4 (14.81%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (14.81%) Safety Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
6 4 (14.81%) Threat Analysis
7 3 (11.11%) Information Security
8 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
8 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (7.41%) Problem Management
8 2 (7.41%) Risk Analysis
8 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Perl
1 2 (7.41%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) CISSP
4 5 (18.52%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (14.81%) CISM
5 4 (14.81%) Degree
6 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.41%) GCIA
6 2 (7.41%) GCIH
6 2 (7.41%) GIAC
6 2 (7.41%) SANS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.70%) CHFI
7 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.70%) EC-Council LPT
7 1 (3.70%) GCED
7 1 (3.70%) GCFE
7 1 (3.70%) GPPA
7 1 (3.70%) GWAPT
7 1 (3.70%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.70%) NCSC
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Functional Safety
1 4 (14.81%) QRadar
2 2 (7.41%) CSIRT
3 1 (3.70%) CASB
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.70%) Nessus
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.70%) VMware