Cybersecurity Analyst Contract Job Trends

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 477 524
Rank change year-on-year -73 +47 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 117 77 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 49 29
10th Percentile £347 £300 £413
25th Percentile £409 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £775 £650 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £483 £550
% change year-on-year +24.12% -12.18% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £51.88
25th Percentile £49.06 £45.75 £54.69
Median hourly rate £57.05 £54.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -11.02% -
75th Percentile £65.26 £63.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £72.13 - £73.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,606 29,880 35,937
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.25% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,580 18,873 22,662
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,581 1,559 1,838
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.33 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +11.13%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cybersecurity Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 September 2026. 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
England -71 108 £600 +19.90% 65
UK excluding London -68 62 £600 +24.12% 49
London -65 48 £543 +3.39% 26
South East -34 39 £600 +26.21% 8
Work from Home -58 27 £475 - 30
South West -34 8 £650 +85.71% 9
North of England -65 6 £385 -30.09% 9
North West -53 4 £385 -26.76% 6
Scotland -29 3 £375 -22.52% 2
Wales - 3 £240 - 2
East of England - 3 - - 6
Yorkshire -35 2 £438 -30.00% 3

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 September 2026, 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 featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 117 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (44.44%) SIEM
3 50 (42.74%) Security Cleared
4 44 (37.61%) Security Operations
5 34 (29.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (24.79%) NIST
7 27 (23.08%) DV Cleared
7 27 (23.08%) Incident Response
8 24 (20.51%) Incident Management
8 24 (20.51%) Security Monitoring
9 22 (18.80%) Vulnerability Management
10 21 (17.95%) Microsoft
11 20 (17.09%) SC Cleared
11 20 (17.09%) Threat Detection
12 19 (16.24%) Azure
12 19 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (11.11%) Entra ID
15 13 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
15 13 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 12 (10.26%) Application Security
16 12 (10.26%) AWS
17 11 (9.40%) CISSP
17 11 (9.40%) Cloud Security
17 11 (9.40%) Information Security
17 11 (9.40%) Remediation Plan
17 11 (9.40%) Runbook
18 10 (8.55%) Risk Assessment
18 10 (8.55%) Risk Management

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.85%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.24%) Azure
2 13 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 12 (10.26%) AWS
4 8 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.56%) GCP
7 3 (2.56%) GitHub
8 2 (1.71%) Akamai
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.71%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.71%) SaaS
9 1 (0.85%) IaaS
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.85%) PaaS
9 1 (0.85%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) Network Security
2 4 (3.42%) Firewall
3 3 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.85%) Modbus
5 1 (0.85%) NAS
5 1 (0.85%) SAN
5 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) Power BI
2 1 (0.85%) Big Data
2 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (2.56%) GitLab
1 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.71%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.71%) JIRA
2 2 (1.71%) Snyk
2 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Finance
4 11 (9.40%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.27%) Military
7 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Law
8 2 (1.71%) Local Government
8 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) FIDO
1 6 (5.13%) WebAuthn
2 3 (2.56%) REST
3 2 (1.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) ADO
4 1 (0.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.24%) Operational Technology
2 7 (5.98%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.13%) CMDB
3 6 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.13%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.42%) NHS
5 4 (3.42%) SCADA
6 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.71%) CSOC
7 2 (1.71%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.71%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.71%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.71%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.42%) Windows
2 3 (2.56%) Linux
3 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (44.44%) SIEM
3 44 (37.61%) Security Operations
4 27 (23.08%) Incident Response
5 24 (20.51%) Incident Management
5 24 (20.51%) Security Monitoring
6 22 (18.80%) Vulnerability Management
7 20 (17.09%) Threat Detection
8 19 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
11 13 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 12 (10.26%) Application Security
13 11 (9.40%) Cloud Security
13 11 (9.40%) Information Security
13 11 (9.40%) Remediation Plan
13 11 (9.40%) Runbook
14 10 (8.55%) Risk Assessment
14 10 (8.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.27%) Python
2 3 (2.56%) Bash
2 3 (2.56%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.71%) Perl
4 1 (0.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (42.74%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 20 (17.09%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.40%) CISSP
5 8 (6.84%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (5.98%) Degree
6 7 (5.98%) GIAC
7 6 (5.13%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (4.27%) SANS
9 4 (3.42%) CEH
9 4 (3.42%) CISM
10 3 (2.56%) CISA
10 3 (2.56%) MCSE
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.71%) IIBA
12 1 (0.85%) CBAP
12 1 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (29.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (24.79%) NIST
3 7 (5.98%) GRC
4 6 (5.13%) GDPR
5 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.71%) COBIT
6 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.85%) NCSC
7 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.56%) Nessus
3 2 (1.71%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.98%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (4.27%) Splunk
4 3 (2.56%) ArcSight
4 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.56%) Google
4 3 (2.56%) Qualys
4 3 (2.56%) Tenable
5 2 (1.71%) Checkmarx
5 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.71%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.71%) Veracode
5 2 (1.71%) Workday
6 1 (0.85%) Clearswift
6 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.85%) NEC
6 1 (0.85%) Progress
6 1 (0.85%) Tripwire
6 1 (0.85%) VMware