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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 472 489
Rank change year-on-year -79 +17 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 110 81 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 56 32
10th Percentile £350 £287 £400
25th Percentile £406 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £547
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.16% +8.05%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £613
90th Percentile £725 £622 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £479 £547
% change year-on-year +25.16% -12.43% +0.37%
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 49,408 30,056 36,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.31% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,654 19,017 23,287
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% -1.87%
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 3,477 1,528 2,029
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.59 £14.23
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%
75th Percentile £67.98 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.13 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +71.50% -44.11% +23.29%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -70 102 £575 +21.05% 40
UK excluding London -78 59 £600 +25.16% 40
London -66 44 £525 +16.67% 18
South East -51 35 £600 +26.21% 11
Work from Home -52 29 £488 +14.98% 18
South West -42 9 £650 +85.71% 3
North of England -60 7 £385 -30.09% 10
North West -40 4 £385 -26.76% 7
Scotland -17 3 £375 -17.40% 2
Yorkshire -37 3 £438 -30.00% 3
East of England - 3 - - 1
Wales - 2 £240 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (42.73%) SIEM
3 46 (41.82%) Security Cleared
4 38 (34.55%) Security Operations
5 35 (31.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (28.18%) NIST
7 25 (22.73%) DV Cleared
8 22 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 22 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
9 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
10 19 (17.27%) Azure
10 19 (17.27%) Incident Management
11 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
12 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
12 17 (15.45%) Threat Detection
13 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (12.73%) GAP Analysis
15 13 (11.82%) CISSP
16 12 (10.91%) Cloud Security
16 12 (10.91%) Information Security
16 12 (10.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 11 (10.00%) Entra ID
17 11 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
18 10 (9.09%) Application Security
18 10 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
18 10 (9.09%) Project Delivery
19 9 (8.18%) AWS
19 9 (8.18%) Decision-Making

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 4 (3.64%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.91%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.27%) Azure
2 11 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (8.18%) AWS
4 7 (6.36%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.73%) GCP
7 3 (2.73%) GitHub
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.82%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.82%) SaaS
9 1 (0.91%) IaaS
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.91%) PaaS
9 1 (0.91%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) Network Security
2 4 (3.64%) Firewall
3 3 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.91%) Modbus
4 1 (0.91%) NAS
4 1 (0.91%) SAN
4 1 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) Power BI
2 1 (0.91%) Big Data
2 1 (0.91%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) GitLab
1 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.73%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.82%) Snyk
2 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (13.64%) Finance
4 11 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.55%) Banking
6 5 (4.55%) Military
7 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Local Government
8 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Advertising
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.64%) FIDO
1 4 (3.64%) WebAuthn
2 1 (0.91%) ADO
2 1 (0.91%) Middleware
2 1 (0.91%) REST
2 1 (0.91%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Operational Technology
2 6 (5.45%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.55%) SCADA
3 5 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.64%) CMDB
5 3 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.73%) NHS
6 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.82%) CSOC
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.82%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.82%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.82%) PKI
6 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (42.73%) SIEM
3 38 (34.55%) Security Operations
4 22 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 22 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
5 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
6 19 (17.27%) Incident Management
7 17 (15.45%) Threat Detection
8 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (12.73%) GAP Analysis
10 12 (10.91%) Cloud Security
10 12 (10.91%) Information Security
10 12 (10.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 11 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
12 10 (9.09%) Application Security
12 10 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.09%) Project Delivery
13 9 (8.18%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.45%) Python
2 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.73%) Bash
4 2 (1.82%) Perl
4 2 (1.82%) SQL
5 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 46 (41.82%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.82%) CISSP
5 8 (7.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 8 (7.27%) Degree
5 8 (7.27%) GIAC
6 6 (5.45%) CISM
6 6 (5.45%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (4.55%) CEH
7 5 (4.55%) SANS
8 4 (3.64%) CISA
9 3 (2.73%) MCSE
9 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.82%) IIBA
11 1 (0.91%) CBAP
11 1 (0.91%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (31.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (28.18%) NIST
3 7 (6.36%) GRC
4 5 (4.55%) GDPR
5 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.73%) COBIT
7 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.91%) ISA99
8 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.91%) NCSC
8 1 (0.91%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (2.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.82%) HP Fortify
2 2 (1.82%) Nessus
2 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.36%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (2.73%) ArcSight
3 3 (2.73%) Google
3 3 (2.73%) Splunk
3 3 (2.73%) Tenable
4 2 (1.82%) Checkmarx
4 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.82%) Veracode
4 2 (1.82%) Workday
5 1 (0.91%) Clearswift
5 1 (0.91%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.91%) Databricks
5 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.91%) NEC
5 1 (0.91%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.91%) Qualys
5 1 (0.91%) Snow
5 1 (0.91%) Tanium