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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 458 505
Rank change year-on-year -84 +47 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 71 74 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 50 83
10th Percentile £320 £413 £403
25th Percentile £500 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £545 £594
90th Percentile £765 £614 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £570
% change year-on-year -0.50% -12.28% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.52% - -
75th Percentile £42.75 £63.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 36,628 28,781 41,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 92.94% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,025 17,777 27,347
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 824 2,299
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.94 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.86 £21.25 £16.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.52 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -4.23% -2.23%
75th Percentile £61.94 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -9.26% -

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 13 February 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
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 13 February 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 -94 56 £600 +17.07% 23
UK excluding London -67 31 £498 -0.50% 23
London -39 25 £625 +19.05% 7
Work from Home -17 15 £520 +4.00% 7
Scotland +18 12 £350 -24.32%
Midlands -47 9 £363 - 2
North of England -51 7 £520 - 5
West Midlands -43 6 £363 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £525 - 2
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
South West -14 2 - - 4
North West -33 1 £325 - 2
South East -63 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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 71 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (43.66%) Security Cleared
3 26 (36.62%) Incident Response
4 24 (33.80%) SC Cleared
4 24 (33.80%) SIEM
5 19 (26.76%) AWS
6 17 (23.94%) Azure
6 17 (23.94%) CEH
6 17 (23.94%) CISSP
6 17 (23.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (23.94%) Threat Intelligence
6 17 (23.94%) Vulnerability Management
7 16 (22.54%) GIAC
8 15 (21.13%) NIST
9 14 (19.72%) Splunk
10 13 (18.31%) CISM
10 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
11 12 (16.90%) Security Operations
12 11 (15.49%) Agile
12 11 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (14.08%) DevOps
13 10 (14.08%) Forensic Analysis
13 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
13 10 (14.08%) Risk Assessment
13 10 (14.08%) Threat Detection
13 10 (14.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 9 (12.68%) Coaching

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 (5.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) AWS
2 17 (23.94%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.86%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.04%) GCP
6 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.23%) OCI
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) Internet
3 3 (4.23%) Network Security
4 1 (1.41%) DNS
4 1 (1.41%) HTTP
4 1 (1.41%) Intranet
4 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.41%) SMTP
4 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) JIRA
General
1 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.39%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.08%) Finance
4 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.63%) Banking
5 4 (5.63%) Law
5 4 (5.63%) Marketing
5 4 (5.63%) Military
5 4 (5.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Legal
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.41%) LDAP
2 1 (1.41%) OAuth
2 1 (1.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (15.49%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (11.27%) Operational Technology
4 7 (9.86%) Management Information System
5 6 (8.45%) Security Posture
6 5 (7.04%) Cybercrime
7 4 (5.63%) Robotics
7 4 (5.63%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (36.62%) Incident Response
3 24 (33.80%) SIEM
4 17 (23.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (23.94%) Threat Intelligence
4 17 (23.94%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (16.90%) Security Operations
7 11 (15.49%) Agile
7 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (14.08%) DevOps
8 10 (14.08%) Forensic Analysis
8 10 (14.08%) Risk Assessment
8 10 (14.08%) Threat Detection
8 10 (14.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 9 (12.68%) Coaching
9 9 (12.68%) Information Security
9 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.86%) SQL
2 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.23%) Python
3 2 (2.82%) Bash
4 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 24 (33.80%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.94%) CEH
3 17 (23.94%) CISSP
4 16 (22.54%) GIAC
5 13 (18.31%) CISM
6 9 (12.68%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
8 7 (9.86%) CompTIA CySA+
9 6 (8.45%) Degree
9 6 (8.45%) OSCP
10 5 (7.04%) GREM
11 4 (5.63%) CISA
11 4 (5.63%) GCIH
11 4 (5.63%) Master's Degree
12 3 (4.23%) CRISC
12 3 (4.23%) GCIA
12 3 (4.23%) SSCP
13 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.13%) NIST
2 11 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.04%) GDPR
3 5 (7.04%) GRC
4 4 (5.63%) NIST 800
4 4 (5.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.23%) NCSC
6 2 (2.82%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) CSIRT
1 1 (1.41%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (1.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Splunk
2 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.23%) Progress
4 3 (4.23%) Qualys
4 3 (4.23%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.82%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.82%) Tenable
6 1 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.41%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Meraki
6 1 (1.41%) Tripwire