Cybersecurity Analyst Contract Job Trends

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £523, 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 510 469 520
Rank change year-on-year -41 +51 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 74 75 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 51 60
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £546
90th Percentile £747 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +4.00% -8.26% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.20 - -
25th Percentile £38.63 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.13 - -
90th Percentile £61.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 33,513 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,975 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 13 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 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
England -32 67 £525 +5.00% 13
UK excluding London -32 33 £520 +4.00% 10
London -22 32 £525 - 8
Work from Home +1 24 £459 -8.20% 18
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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 featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (43.24%) Incident Response
3 31 (41.89%) SIEM
4 27 (36.49%) Security Cleared
5 21 (28.38%) Microsoft
5 21 (28.38%) Vulnerability Management
6 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
6 19 (25.68%) Security Operations
7 18 (24.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (24.32%) Threat Intelligence
8 17 (22.97%) CEH
8 17 (22.97%) CISSP
8 17 (22.97%) GIAC
8 17 (22.97%) NIST
9 16 (21.62%) AWS
9 16 (21.62%) Splunk
10 15 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (18.92%) Agile
11 14 (18.92%) Threat Detection
12 12 (16.22%) Information Security
13 11 (14.86%) CISM
13 11 (14.86%) CompTIA Security+
13 11 (14.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 10 (13.51%) DV Cleared
14 10 (13.51%) Firewall
14 10 (13.51%) Forensic Analysis
14 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
15 9 (12.16%) Azure
15 9 (12.16%) Business Analysis

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 5 (6.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.35%) GNU Octave
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) AWS
2 9 (12.16%) Azure
3 5 (6.76%) GCP
4 3 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.05%) OCI
5 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.35%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.51%) Firewall
2 5 (6.76%) Internet
2 5 (6.76%) Network Security
3 2 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) HTTP
3 2 (2.70%) SMTP
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.70%) Wireless
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.35%) Intranet
4 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) JIRA
General
1 34 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (37.84%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.11%) Finance
5 5 (6.76%) Retail
6 4 (5.41%) Banking
6 4 (5.41%) Law
6 4 (5.41%) Military
7 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Local Government
8 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) LDAP
1 1 (1.35%) OAuth
1 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.35%) SAML
1 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (17.57%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (10.81%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (6.76%) Cybercrime
4 5 (6.76%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.41%) Operational Technology
6 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) PMI
7 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (4.05%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) AIX
3 1 (1.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (43.24%) Incident Response
3 31 (41.89%) SIEM
4 21 (28.38%) Vulnerability Management
5 19 (25.68%) Security Operations
6 18 (24.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (24.32%) Threat Intelligence
7 15 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (18.92%) Agile
8 14 (18.92%) Threat Detection
9 12 (16.22%) Information Security
10 10 (13.51%) Forensic Analysis
10 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
11 9 (12.16%) Business Analysis
11 9 (12.16%) Coaching
11 9 (12.16%) Risk Management
11 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (10.81%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.11%) Python
2 5 (6.76%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.41%) Bash
4 3 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (36.49%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.97%) CEH
3 17 (22.97%) CISSP
3 17 (22.97%) GIAC
4 11 (14.86%) CISM
4 11 (14.86%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (13.51%) DV Cleared
6 9 (12.16%) CompTIA CySA+
7 7 (9.46%) Degree
7 7 (9.46%) OSCP
8 6 (8.11%) GCIH
9 5 (6.76%) GREM
10 4 (5.41%) GCIA
10 4 (5.41%) SSCP
11 3 (4.05%) CRISC
12 2 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (2.70%) CCNA
12 2 (2.70%) CCSP
12 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.97%) NIST
2 11 (14.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.46%) GDPR
4 5 (6.76%) GRC
4 5 (6.76%) NIST 800
5 4 (5.41%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.05%) NCSC
7 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (28.38%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.62%) Splunk
3 5 (6.76%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.05%) F5
4 3 (4.05%) Qualys
4 3 (4.05%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.70%) Darktrace
5 2 (2.70%) Google
5 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.70%) Tenable
6 1 (1.35%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.35%) Aruba
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.35%) Meraki
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) SAP
6 1 (1.35%) Zscaler