Cybersecurity Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 328 369
Rank change year-on-year -32 +41 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 33 29 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 18
10th Percentile £350 - £425
25th Percentile £423 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -8.26% +6.34%
75th Percentile £543 £545 £600
90th Percentile £575 £598 £611
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.50% - -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,356 13,848 18,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.36% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,052 8,265 12,022
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,646 795 1,208
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.41 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cybersecurity Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
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 Cybersecurity Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England -41 9 £520 -
Midlands -33 8 £525 - 2
South East -37 7 £520 +4.00% 4
Scotland +6 6 £300 -35.14% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £525 -
West Midlands -28 5 £525 - 2
South West -8 3 £350 -51.72%
North West -24 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 3 - -
Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Cybersecurity Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 11 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (30.30%) NIST
3 10 (30.30%) SIEM
4 9 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
6 7 (21.21%) CISSP
6 7 (21.21%) GIAC
6 7 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (21.21%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (18.18%) Azure
7 6 (18.18%) Business Analysis
7 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
8 5 (15.15%) Agile
8 5 (15.15%) AWS
8 5 (15.15%) CEH
8 5 (15.15%) Data Loss Prevention
8 5 (15.15%) Firewall
8 5 (15.15%) GRC
8 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (15.15%) Information Security
8 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
8 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.15%) Threat Detection
9 4 (12.12%) Analytical Thinking
9 4 (12.12%) CISM
9 4 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) GCP
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) OCI
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) Wireless
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.03%) Intranet
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Military
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) LDAP
1 1 (3.03%) OAuth
1 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (15.15%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) PMI
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) AIX
3 1 (3.03%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 11 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 10 (30.30%) SIEM
4 9 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (21.21%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (18.18%) Business Analysis
6 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
7 5 (15.15%) Agile
7 5 (15.15%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (15.15%) Information Security
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (15.15%) Threat Detection
8 4 (12.12%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (12.12%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Threat Analysis
8 4 (12.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.03%) Python
1 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) CISSP
2 7 (21.21%) GIAC
3 5 (15.15%) CEH
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) CISM
4 4 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) GCIA
4 4 (12.12%) GCIH
5 3 (9.09%) SSCP
6 2 (6.06%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.03%) CAPM
7 1 (3.03%) CASP
7 1 (3.03%) CBAP
7 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) NIST
2 7 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (15.15%) GRC
4 3 (9.09%) GDPR
4 3 (9.09%) NIST 800
4 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (9.09%) F5
2 3 (9.09%) Qualys
2 3 (9.09%) Rapid7
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (3.03%) ArcSight
3 1 (3.03%) Aruba
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.03%) Meraki
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow