Cybersecurity Analyst Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Analyst
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 358 440
Rank change year-on-year +43 +82 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 38 33 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 36
10th Percentile £286 £400 £353
25th Percentile £413 £425 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £566
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -7.28% +13.25%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £691
90th Percentile £650 £682 £798
England median daily rate £500 £550 £554
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.68% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 - £70.25
% change year-on-year - - +6.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in London

Cybersecurity Analyst
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 Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South London - 6 £525 -
Central London +1 2 £425 -15.00% 1
North London - 2 £650 -
Cybersecurity Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (39.47%) Incident Response
3 13 (34.21%) Python
3 13 (34.21%) SIEM
4 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
5 11 (28.95%) Security Operations
5 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
5 11 (28.95%) NIST
6 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
6 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
6 10 (26.32%) Azure
6 10 (26.32%) CISSP
7 9 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (23.68%) Power BI
7 9 (23.68%) Power Platform
8 8 (21.05%) GDPR
8 8 (21.05%) Firewall
9 7 (18.42%) CISM
9 7 (18.42%) Degree
9 7 (18.42%) AWS
10 6 (15.79%) HIPAA
10 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (15.79%) Network Security
10 6 (15.79%) CEH
10 6 (15.79%) Information Security
10 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
10 6 (15.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (15.79%) Security Posture
11 5 (13.16%) NIST 800

Cybersecurity Analyst 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) Power Platform
3 7 (18.42%) AWS
4 5 (13.16%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.63%) Akamai
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) Firewall
2 6 (15.79%) Network Security
3 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.26%) DNS
4 2 (5.26%) HTTP
4 2 (5.26%) SMTP
5 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Power BI
2 4 (10.53%) Tableau
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Local Government
6 2 (5.26%) Advertising
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 2 (5.26%) Military
6 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) OAuth
1 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Security Posture
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.63%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (39.47%) Incident Response
3 13 (34.21%) SIEM
4 11 (28.95%) Security Operations
5 9 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.79%) Information Security
6 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.16%) Asset Management
7 5 (13.16%) Data Analysis
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.53%) Analytics
8 4 (10.53%) Cloud Security
8 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
8 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.53%) Forensic Analysis
8 4 (10.53%) Scorecard
8 4 (10.53%) Security Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Threat Detection
8 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
8 4 (10.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) CISSP
1 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) CISM
2 7 (18.42%) Degree
3 6 (15.79%) CEH
3 6 (15.79%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (13.16%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.89%) CISA
5 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.89%) GCIA
6 2 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (5.26%) CCNA
6 2 (5.26%) CCSP
6 2 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (5.26%) CRISC
6 2 (5.26%) GCIH
6 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (5.26%) OSCP
7 1 (2.63%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) NIST
2 8 (21.05%) GDPR
3 6 (15.79%) HIPAA
3 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (13.16%) NIST 800
4 5 (13.16%) PCI DSS
5 3 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (5.26%) GRC
7 1 (2.63%) ISO 31000
7 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (2.63%) NCSC
7 1 (2.63%) QA
7 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Splunk
3 2 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Tenable
4 1 (2.63%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.63%) Okta