Cyberattack Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 335 361
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 +85
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 36 20 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.43% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 37
10th Percentile £440 £234 £342
25th Percentile £484 £383 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £563 £613
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -8.16% +2.08%
75th Percentile £654 £731 £650
90th Percentile £680 £788 £703
UK median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.67% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £48.94 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.19 - -
90th Percentile £84.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £52.50

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,017 4,624 6,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.89% 31.31% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,729 2,602 3,859
10th Percentile £204 £200 £210
25th Percentile £358 £358 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -5.70% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 248 377
10th Percentile £13.08 £17.63 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.05 £22.50 £20.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -28.11% +53.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.76 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyberattack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyberattack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyberattack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
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 Cyberattack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
East of England -10 15 £680 +134.48% 9
South East -9 8 £640 +54.22% 13
Scotland +11 7 £610 - 48
Yorkshire -40 3 £450 -20.00% 3
North of England -46 3 £450 -33.33% 14
Midlands - 3 £368 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £368 -
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
1 1 (2.78%) AWS
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (72.22%) DNS
2 16 (44.44%) Network Security
3 15 (41.67%) FTP
3 15 (41.67%) HTTP
3 15 (41.67%) SMTP
3 15 (41.67%) SSL
4 12 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.33%) Internet
6 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (86.11%) Analyst
2 30 (83.33%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Lead
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Business Continuity Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Service Design Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Service Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Service Transition Manager
6 1 (2.78%) SIEM Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (69.44%) Security Operations Centre
2 20 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (38.89%) Management Information System
4 13 (36.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (36.11%) CSOC
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
1 12 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (86.11%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (80.56%) Incident Response
3 27 (75.00%) SIEM
4 25 (69.44%) Security Operations
5 16 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (41.67%) Information Security
6 15 (41.67%) Network Packet Capture
7 14 (38.89%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (38.89%) Runbook
7 14 (38.89%) SOAR
8 13 (36.11%) AI
8 13 (36.11%) Analytics
8 13 (36.11%) Behavioural Analytics
8 13 (36.11%) Information Management
8 13 (36.11%) Machine Learning
8 13 (36.11%) Threat Detection
9 12 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
10 9 (25.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (8.33%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) PowerShell
1 13 (36.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (52.78%) SC Cleared
3 18 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 9 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (25.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) BMC
2 1 (2.78%) Intel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft