Behavioural Analytics Contracts

Behavioural Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Behavioural Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Behavioural Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 579 707
Rank change year-on-year +71 +128 +142
Contract jobs citing Behavioural Analytics 12 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.007% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.008% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £550 - £370
25th Percentile £575 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +56.25% -25.93%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £620
90th Percentile £638 - £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £400
% change year-on-year -4.00% +56.25% -25.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £81.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.68 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Behavioural Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Behavioural Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Behavioural Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Behavioural Analytics in the UK

Behavioural Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Behavioural Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Behavioural Analytics in the UK

Behavioural Analytics
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Behavioural Analytics within the UK 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
UK excluding London +72 10 £600 -4.00% 9
England +64 10 £600 -4.00% 13
East of England - 7 £600 -
Work from Home - 3 - - 9
London +38 2 £575 -8.00% 5
Wales - 2 - -
South West +46 1 - -

Behavioural Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
1 7 (58.33%) FTP
1 7 (58.33%) HTTP
1 7 (58.33%) Network Security
1 7 (58.33%) SMTP
1 7 (58.33%) SSL
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Law
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Information Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Research Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Researcher
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (58.33%) Cyberattack
2 7 (58.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (50.00%) CSOC
3 6 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Analytics
2 11 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (75.00%) Threat Detection
4 8 (66.67%) Information Security
4 8 (66.67%) SIEM
5 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (58.33%) Incident Response
5 7 (58.33%) Information Management
5 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
5 7 (58.33%) Network Packet Capture
6 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
7 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (16.67%) Psychology
8 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
8 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
8 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Change
8 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
8 1 (8.33%) SOAR
8 1 (8.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) Varonis