Cybersecurity Analyst Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 482 528
Rank change year-on-year +45 +46 +118
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 66 52 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 64
10th Percentile £300 £400 £396
25th Percentile £390 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £535
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% - -2.73%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £600
90th Percentile £648 £737 £685
UK median daily rate £475 £547 £500
% change year-on-year -13.16% +9.40% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £51.88 -
25th Percentile £45.75 £54.69 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £61.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% - -
75th Percentile £63.25 £69.69 -
90th Percentile - £73.63 -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £61.25 -
% change year-on-year -11.02% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,317 31,120 43,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 92.89% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,428 20,500 30,340
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,309 1,828 1,343
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.73% +5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 5 August 2025. 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
London +17 41 £450 -12.20% 13
South East +36 15 £488 +14.71% 12
West Midlands -1 5 £525 +5.00%
Midlands -9 5 £525 +5.00% 1
South West +20 4 £350 -49.09% 1
North of England - 3 £550 - 11
North West - 2 £525 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 5
Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, Cybersecurity Analyst 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
4 20 (30.30%) Incident Response
4 20 (30.30%) SIEM
5 18 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
6 16 (24.24%) Security Operations
7 15 (22.73%) Information Security
8 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.70%) NIST
9 13 (19.70%) Azure
9 13 (19.70%) Security Posture
10 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (18.18%) Firewall
11 11 (16.67%) Python
12 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
12 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
12 10 (15.15%) Degree
12 10 (15.15%) Threat Intelligence
12 10 (15.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 9 (13.64%) Business Analysis
13 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
13 9 (13.64%) Finance
14 8 (12.12%) Windows
14 8 (12.12%) CISSP
14 8 (12.12%) AWS
15 7 (10.61%) Qualys
15 7 (10.61%) Incident Management
15 7 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.52%) Confluence
1 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) GNU Octave
3 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.70%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) AWS
3 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.09%) Akamai
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) Firewall
2 5 (7.58%) Network Security
3 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.55%) DNS
4 3 (4.55%) HTTP
4 3 (4.55%) SMTP
5 2 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.03%) Wireless
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.52%) Internet
6 1 (1.52%) VoIP
6 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Power BI
2 5 (7.58%) Tableau
General
1 26 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.55%) Legal
7 3 (4.55%) Local Government
7 3 (4.55%) Military
8 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) OAuth
2 2 (3.03%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.52%) LDAP
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.52%) OpenID
3 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.52%) REST
3 1 (1.52%) SAML
3 1 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Security Posture
2 6 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (6.06%) Cyber Security Posture
3 4 (6.06%) Operational Technology
3 4 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) PKI
6 1 (1.52%) PMI
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Windows
2 4 (6.06%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) AIX
4 1 (1.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (30.30%) Incident Response
2 20 (30.30%) SIEM
3 18 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 16 (24.24%) Security Operations
5 15 (22.73%) Information Security
6 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 10 (15.15%) Threat Intelligence
9 9 (13.64%) Business Analysis
9 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
10 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.61%) Incident Management
10 7 (10.61%) Threat Detection
11 6 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 6 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
11 6 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
12 5 (7.58%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (7.58%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.58%) Bash
5 4 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Degree
1 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) CISSP
3 6 (9.09%) CEH
3 6 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
3 6 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.58%) GCIH
5 4 (6.06%) CCNA
6 3 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.55%) CCSP
6 3 (4.55%) CISA
6 3 (4.55%) CISM
6 3 (4.55%) FFIEC
6 3 (4.55%) OSCP
6 3 (4.55%) SSCP
7 2 (3.03%) CASP
7 2 (3.03%) CRISC
7 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) NIST
2 7 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (9.09%) NIST 800
4 5 (7.58%) GDPR
5 3 (4.55%) GRC
6 2 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (3.03%) HIPAA
6 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (3.03%) NCSC
7 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.52%) ISO 31000
7 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.52%) QA
7 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.52%) SLA
7 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) Qualys
3 6 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (7.58%) Splunk
5 4 (6.06%) Imperva
5 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.55%) F5
6 3 (4.55%) Google
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.55%) SAP
7 2 (3.03%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 2 (3.03%) Darktrace
7 2 (3.03%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.52%) Aruba
8 1 (1.52%) Cisco
8 1 (1.52%) Okta
8 1 (1.52%) Zscaler