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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 467 501
Rank change year-on-year -99 +34 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 108 78 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 55 30
10th Percentile £350 £287 £400
25th Percentile £406 £338 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £547
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.16% +8.05%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £597
90th Percentile £725 £625 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £479 £550
% change year-on-year +25.16% -12.91% +0.92%
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 49,538 30,006 36,016
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.28% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,704 18,935 23,189
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 £621 £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 3,506 1,542 1,988
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.56 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.02
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.87% +22.28%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -91 101 £575 +18.56% 38
UK excluding London -80 60 £600 +25.16% 36
London -65 42 £525 +11.11% 14
South East -53 36 £600 +26.21% 11
Work from Home -55 28 £475 +12.29% 12
South West -36 9 £650 +85.71% 3
North of England -75 7 £385 -30.09% 6
North West -45 4 £385 -26.76% 5
Scotland -21 3 £375 -17.40%
Yorkshire -42 3 £438 -30.00%
East of England - 3 - - 1
Wales - 2 £240 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (42.59%) SIEM
3 45 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 38 (35.19%) Security Operations
5 34 (31.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (27.78%) NIST
7 25 (23.15%) DV Cleared
8 22 (20.37%) Incident Response
8 22 (20.37%) Security Monitoring
9 20 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (17.59%) Azure
10 19 (17.59%) Incident Management
10 19 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (17.59%) Vulnerability Management
11 17 (15.74%) Microsoft
11 17 (15.74%) SC Cleared
11 17 (15.74%) Threat Detection
12 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (12.04%) GAP Analysis
14 12 (11.11%) CISSP
14 12 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 11 (10.19%) Cloud Security
15 11 (10.19%) Entra ID
15 11 (10.19%) Information Security
15 11 (10.19%) Remediation Plan
16 10 (9.26%) Application Security
17 9 (8.33%) AWS
17 9 (8.33%) Decision-Making
17 9 (8.33%) Project Delivery
17 9 (8.33%) Risk Management

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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.59%) Azure
2 11 (10.19%) Entra ID
3 9 (8.33%) AWS
4 7 (6.48%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.78%) GCP
7 3 (2.78%) GitHub
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.85%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.85%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Akamai
9 1 (0.93%) IaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.93%) PaaS
9 1 (0.93%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) Network Security
2 4 (3.70%) Firewall
3 3 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.93%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) Modbus
4 1 (0.93%) NAS
4 1 (0.93%) SAN
4 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.48%) Power BI
2 1 (0.93%) Big Data
2 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) GitLab
1 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.85%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.85%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) Snyk
2 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.04%) Finance
4 11 (10.19%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) Military
7 3 (2.78%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Local Government
8 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Advertising
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.70%) FIDO
1 4 (3.70%) WebAuthn
2 2 (1.85%) REST
3 1 (0.93%) ADO
3 1 (0.93%) Middleware
3 1 (0.93%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Operational Technology
2 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.63%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.70%) CMDB
4 4 (3.70%) SCADA
5 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.78%) NHS
6 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) CSOC
6 2 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.85%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.85%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.85%) PKI
6 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Windows
2 2 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (42.59%) SIEM
3 38 (35.19%) Security Operations
4 22 (20.37%) Incident Response
4 22 (20.37%) Security Monitoring
5 20 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (17.59%) Incident Management
6 19 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (17.59%) Vulnerability Management
7 17 (15.74%) Threat Detection
8 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (12.04%) GAP Analysis
10 12 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 11 (10.19%) Cloud Security
11 11 (10.19%) Information Security
11 11 (10.19%) Remediation Plan
12 10 (9.26%) Application Security
13 9 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 9 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 9 (8.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.56%) Python
2 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.78%) Bash
4 2 (1.85%) Perl
4 2 (1.85%) SQL
5 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.15%) DV Cleared
3 17 (15.74%) SC Cleared
4 12 (11.11%) CISSP
5 8 (7.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (6.48%) Degree
6 7 (6.48%) GIAC
7 6 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (4.63%) CISM
8 5 (4.63%) SANS
9 4 (3.70%) CEH
10 3 (2.78%) CISA
10 3 (2.78%) MCSE
10 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.85%) IIBA
12 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (31.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (27.78%) NIST
3 7 (6.48%) GRC
4 4 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.70%) GDPR
5 3 (2.78%) COBIT
6 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.93%) NCSC
7 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.85%) HP Fortify
2 2 (1.85%) Nessus
2 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.48%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (2.78%) ArcSight
3 3 (2.78%) Google
3 3 (2.78%) Splunk
3 3 (2.78%) Tenable
4 2 (1.85%) Checkmarx
4 2 (1.85%) Qualys
4 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.85%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.85%) Veracode
4 2 (1.85%) Workday
5 1 (0.93%) Clearswift
5 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks
5 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.93%) NEC
5 1 (0.93%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.93%) Snow
5 1 (0.93%) Tanium