Cybersecurity Analyst Contracts

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 480 595
Rank change year-on-year +31 +115 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 71 102 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 79 79
10th Percentile £279 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £504 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.27%
75th Percentile £538 £689 £663
90th Percentile £596 £750 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £63.73
25th Percentile £45.75 - £65.19
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £70.25
75th Percentile £63.25 - £75.19
90th Percentile - - £76.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.25
% change year-on-year - - +6.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 9 Contract 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 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
England +39 59 £500 -9.09% 35
London +43 38 £450 -14.29% 18
Work from Home +47 27 £463 -10.19% 31
UK excluding London +26 26 £475 -16.67% 31
South East +54 16 £500 -8.09% 12
Scotland +1 7 £287 -45.33% 9
Midlands +25 4 £565 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £565 - 1
East of England +27 1 £600 +12.15% 1

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cybersecurity Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (33.80%) Python
3 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
4 21 (29.58%) Power Platform
4 21 (29.58%) Power BI
4 21 (29.58%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (26.76%) Security Operations
6 18 (25.35%) Incident Response
7 17 (23.94%) SIEM
8 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
9 14 (19.72%) CISSP
10 13 (18.31%) Vulnerability Management
10 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.90%) Azure
11 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
11 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
12 11 (15.49%) CISM
12 11 (15.49%) Information Security
12 11 (15.49%) Asset Management
12 11 (15.49%) NIST
12 11 (15.49%) Security Posture
13 10 (14.08%) Analytics
13 10 (14.08%) GDPR
13 10 (14.08%) Firewall
13 10 (14.08%) Risk Management
14 9 (12.68%) Network Security
14 9 (12.68%) Degree
14 9 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 8 (11.27%) Data Analysis

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Power Platform
2 12 (16.90%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) AWS
4 5 (7.04%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.04%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) Akamai
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.41%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) Firewall
2 9 (12.68%) Network Security
3 5 (7.04%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) DNS
4 3 (4.23%) HTTP
4 3 (4.23%) SMTP
5 1 (1.41%) FTP
5 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.41%) SSL
5 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.58%) Power BI
2 7 (9.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.41%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 4 (5.63%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Local Government
7 2 (2.82%) Advertising
7 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Legal
7 2 (2.82%) Military
7 2 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.41%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.41%) LDAP
2 1 (1.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Security Posture
2 6 (8.45%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.04%) Cyber Security Posture
3 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.04%) Operational Technology
4 4 (5.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.82%) CSOC
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.82%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
1 3 (4.23%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (29.58%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (26.76%) Security Operations
4 18 (25.35%) Incident Response
5 17 (23.94%) SIEM
6 13 (18.31%) Vulnerability Management
7 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (15.49%) Asset Management
8 11 (15.49%) Information Security
9 10 (14.08%) Analytics
9 10 (14.08%) Risk Management
10 8 (11.27%) Data Analysis
11 7 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.86%) Customer Service
11 7 (9.86%) Scorecard
11 7 (9.86%) Security Testing
12 6 (8.45%) Visualisation
12 6 (8.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 5 (7.04%) Data Loss Prevention
13 5 (7.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) Python
2 7 (9.86%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.23%) Bash
4 3 (4.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) CISSP
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) CISM
4 9 (12.68%) Degree
5 7 (9.86%) CEH
5 7 (9.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.23%) CISA
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.23%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (4.23%) GCIA
8 2 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.82%) CCNA
8 2 (2.82%) CCSP
8 2 (2.82%) CRISC
8 2 (2.82%) GCIH
8 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.82%) OSCP
9 1 (1.41%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) NIST
2 10 (14.08%) GDPR
3 9 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (11.27%) HIPAA
5 7 (9.86%) PCI DSS
6 5 (7.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (7.04%) NIST 800
7 4 (5.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (5.63%) GRC
8 3 (4.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (2.82%) NCSC
10 1 (1.41%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (1.41%) QA
10 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) CASB
1 2 (2.82%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.41%) Nessus
2 1 (1.41%) Nmap
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.86%) Qualys
3 5 (7.04%) Splunk
4 3 (4.23%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.23%) Okta
5 2 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.82%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.82%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) Imperva
5 2 (2.82%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.82%) Tenable
6 1 (1.41%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.41%) FireEye
6 1 (1.41%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.41%) Tanium