Cybersecurity Analyst Contract Job Trends

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 442 479
Rank change year-on-year -117 +37 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 70 69 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 91
10th Percentile £321 £287 £400
25th Percentile £467 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £631 £538 £619
90th Percentile £761 £545 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £570
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £39.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £53.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% - -
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.25 -
90th Percentile £66.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,729 27,628 41,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 92.94% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,809 17,866 27,104
10th Percentile £313 £297 £270
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,476 879 2,491
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.32 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.08 £21.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +1.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £75.79 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -20.36%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -108 55 £585 +23.16% 21
UK excluding London -81 31 £475 - 16
London -51 26 £600 +33.33% 11
Work from Home -40 13 £506 +6.58% 6
Scotland +16 11 £350 -5.02%
Midlands -50 9 £363 - 6
North of England - 7 £520 - 3
West Midlands -60 6 £363 -
Yorkshire - 6 £530 - 2
South West -29 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 - - 6
South East -77 1 - - 6
North West - 1 £325 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 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 70 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (38.57%) Security Cleared
3 25 (35.71%) Incident Response
3 25 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 21 (30.00%) SIEM
5 20 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 19 (27.14%) AWS
7 18 (25.71%) Azure
7 18 (25.71%) NIST
8 17 (24.29%) CISSP
9 14 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (18.57%) Agile
11 12 (17.14%) CISM
11 12 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
11 12 (17.14%) Splunk
12 11 (15.71%) CEH
12 11 (15.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 11 (15.71%) Threat Intelligence
13 10 (14.29%) DevOps
13 10 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
13 10 (14.29%) Security Operations
14 9 (12.86%) Coaching
14 9 (12.86%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (12.86%) Forensic Analysis
14 9 (12.86%) GIAC
14 9 (12.86%) Information Security
14 9 (12.86%) Line Management
14 9 (12.86%) Mentoring

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 (4.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.14%) AWS
2 18 (25.71%) Azure
3 8 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.14%) GCP
6 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.29%) OCI
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.43%) Lucidchart
9 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.43%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.43%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) HTTP
3 1 (1.43%) Intranet
3 1 (1.43%) NAS
3 1 (1.43%) SAN
3 1 (1.43%) SMTP
3 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.43%) VLAN
3 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Finance
4 6 (8.57%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Military
7 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.43%) LDAP
2 1 (1.43%) OAuth
2 1 (1.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Operational Technology
2 10 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (12.86%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 6 (8.57%) Security Posture
6 5 (7.14%) Robotics
7 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) PMI
8 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.43%) SCADA
8 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (4.29%) Linux
3 1 (1.43%) AIX
3 1 (1.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (35.71%) Incident Response
3 21 (30.00%) SIEM
4 20 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 14 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (18.57%) Agile
7 11 (15.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 11 (15.71%) Threat Intelligence
8 10 (14.29%) DevOps
8 10 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
8 10 (14.29%) Security Operations
9 9 (12.86%) Coaching
9 9 (12.86%) Forensic Analysis
9 9 (12.86%) Information Security
9 9 (12.86%) Line Management
9 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
9 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (12.86%) Threat Detection
9 9 (12.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) SQL
2 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.71%) Python
3 2 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 25 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 17 (24.29%) CISSP
4 12 (17.14%) CISM
5 11 (15.71%) CEH
6 9 (12.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (12.86%) GIAC
7 8 (11.43%) Degree
8 5 (7.14%) CISA
9 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
9 4 (5.71%) GCIH
9 4 (5.71%) Master's Degree
10 3 (4.29%) GCIA
10 3 (4.29%) SSCP
11 2 (2.86%) CCNA
11 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (2.86%) CRISC
12 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.71%) NIST
2 12 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (8.57%) GDPR
4 5 (7.14%) GRC
5 4 (5.71%) NIST 800
5 4 (5.71%) PCI DSS
5 4 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.86%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.86%) NCSC
6 2 (2.86%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.43%) COBIT
7 1 (1.43%) GxP
7 1 (1.43%) ISA99
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) CSIRT
1 1 (1.43%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (1.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
1 12 (17.14%) Splunk
2 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.29%) Progress
3 3 (4.29%) Qualys
3 3 (4.29%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.86%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.43%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Tenable
5 1 (1.43%) Tripwire