Cybersecurity Analyst Contract Job Trends

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 449 490
Rank change year-on-year -101 +41 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 96 74 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 74
10th Percentile £334 £287 £413
25th Percentile £459 £339 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.16% -12.91% +0.23%
75th Percentile £601 £538 £745
90th Percentile £631 £638 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £479 £570
% change year-on-year +25.16% -15.96% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £47.00 - £51.88
25th Percentile £48.13 £45.75 £54.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £54.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -11.02% -18.33%
75th Percentile £59.38 £63.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £65.00 - £73.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.75 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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 46,354 27,333 40,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.29% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,205 17,581 26,034
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,093 1,154 2,952
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.52 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.48% -26.63% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 15 June 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 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 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 -85 79 £600 +19.90% 33
UK excluding London -97 51 £600 +25.16% 31
London -71 32 £525 - 3
Work from Home -50 24 £525 +16.67% 10
South East -58 17 £600 +22.97% 17
Scotland -17 12 £375 -17.40%
South West -21 9 £645 +84.29% 4
Midlands -51 7 £250 -55.75% 1
North of England - 6 £472 - 6
Yorkshire - 5 £600 - 1
West Midlands -60 4 £250 -55.75%
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
North West - 1 £344 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 96 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 31 (32.29%) SIEM
4 28 (29.17%) Azure
5 25 (26.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (25.00%) NIST
7 21 (21.88%) SC Cleared
8 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (20.83%) Security Operations
9 18 (18.75%) DV Cleared
10 17 (17.71%) Incident Response
11 15 (15.63%) DevOps
11 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
12 14 (14.58%) CISSP
13 13 (13.54%) Analytics
13 13 (13.54%) Power Platform
14 12 (12.50%) AWS
14 12 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
14 12 (12.50%) Power BI
15 11 (11.46%) Cloud Security
15 11 (11.46%) Degree
15 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
15 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
15 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (11.46%) Security Monitoring
15 11 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
16 10 (10.42%) Validation

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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.04%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.17%) Azure
2 13 (13.54%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.50%) AWS
4 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.29%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.13%) GCP
8 3 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.04%) Lucidchart
10 1 (1.04%) SaaS
10 1 (1.04%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (2.08%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) Modbus
4 1 (1.04%) NAS
4 1 (1.04%) SAN
4 1 (1.04%) VLAN
4 1 (1.04%) VoIP
4 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) Big Data
2 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) GitLab
2 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.08%) Snyk
3 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Finance
4 7 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.08%) Military
9 1 (1.04%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.04%) ADO
2 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.29%) Security Posture
4 6 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (4.17%) Robotics
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.08%) CSOC
8 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.08%) SCADA
8 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.04%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.04%) PKI
9 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Windows
2 4 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) AIX
3 1 (1.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (32.29%) SIEM
3 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (20.83%) Security Operations
4 17 (17.71%) Incident Response
5 15 (15.63%) DevOps
5 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
6 13 (13.54%) Analytics
7 12 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
8 11 (11.46%) Cloud Security
8 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
8 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.46%) Security Monitoring
8 11 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (10.42%) Validation
10 9 (9.38%) Remediation Plan
10 9 (9.38%) Risk Assessment
10 9 (9.38%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.33%) SQL
2 6 (6.25%) Python
3 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (2.08%) Perl
6 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 14 (14.58%) CISSP
5 11 (11.46%) Degree
6 8 (8.33%) CISM
6 8 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (7.29%) CEH
7 7 (7.29%) GIAC
8 6 (6.25%) CISA
9 5 (5.21%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (5.21%) SANS
10 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
10 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (3.13%) MCSE
12 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.08%) CBAP
12 2 (2.08%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (25.00%) NIST
3 8 (8.33%) GRC
4 3 (3.13%) COBIT
4 3 (3.13%) GDPR
5 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.08%) SLA
6 1 (1.04%) GxP
6 1 (1.04%) ISA99
6 1 (1.04%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.08%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (4.17%) Progress
3 4 (4.17%) Qualys
4 3 (3.13%) ArcSight
4 3 (3.13%) Splunk
5 2 (2.08%) Checkmarx
5 2 (2.08%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.08%) Tripwire
5 2 (2.08%) Veracode
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco
6 1 (1.04%) Clearswift
6 1 (1.04%) Databricks
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) NEC
6 1 (1.04%) Snow
6 1 (1.04%) Tanium
6 1 (1.04%) Tenable