CompTIA CySA+ Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CompTIA CySA+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 360 424
Rank change year-on-year -1 +64 +80
Contract jobs citing CompTIA CySA+ 10 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.039% 0.018%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.11% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £380 £440 £441
25th Percentile £421 £481 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £493 £663 £505
90th Percentile £500 £730 £517
UK median daily rate £483 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -12.18% +4.76% -8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CompTIA CySA+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,360 6,183 7,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.96% 34.61% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,235 3,666 4,588
10th Percentile £219 £288 £300
25th Percentile £395 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 669 581 589
10th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.55% +0.95% +16.77%
75th Percentile £41.55 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% -9.09% +22.22%

CompTIA CySA+
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CompTIA CySA+ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CompTIA CySA+ in the UK excluding London

CompTIA CySA+
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CompTIA CySA+.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CompTIA CySA+

CompTIA CySA+
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CompTIA CySA+ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Scotland +6 6 £493 +1.03% 1
South East - 2 £410 - 10
North of England - 1 £473 - 8
East of England - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £473 - 2
CompTIA CySA+
UK

CompTIA CySA+
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Azure Sentinel
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Analyst
2 7 (70.00%) Security Analyst
3 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (90.00%) SIEM
2 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (60.00%) OSINT
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 4 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case
5 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Event Correlation
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (20.00%) Log Correlation
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Open Source
6 2 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
7 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) CISSP
2 9 (90.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) GCIH
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) CASP
3 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) GCIA
4 1 (10.00%) CEH
4 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Tenable
3 1 (10.00%) VMware