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 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 468 519
Rank change year-on-year -90 +51 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 107 84 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.28% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 54 34
10th Percentile £327 £287 £404
25th Percentile £409 £331 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £547
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.16% +6.73%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £634
90th Percentile £643 £628 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £483 £540
% change year-on-year +24.12% -10.47% +2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £51.88
25th Percentile £48.13 £45.75 £54.69
Median hourly rate £64.09 £54.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% -11.02% -18.33%
75th Percentile £66.42 £63.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £73.25 - £73.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.05 - £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 49,136 30,148 37,599
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.57% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,670 19,189 24,369
10th Percentile £328 £284 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 3,322 1,457 2,277
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.72 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.27
Median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year +70.39% -39.85% -3.47%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +10.19%

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 26 July 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 26 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 14 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 26 July 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 -79 97 £575 +21.05% 29
UK excluding London -83 58 £600 +24.12% 26
London -73 39 £525 +16.67% 13
Work from Home -57 29 £494 +16.18% 17
South East -61 28 £600 +26.26% 4
South West -30 10 £650 +85.71% 5
North of England -72 8 £472 -14.18% 7
Yorkshire -42 5 £600 -4.00% 3
Midlands -50 4 £250 -54.13% 2
West Midlands -53 4 £250 -54.13% 1
Scotland -23 3 £375 -17.40%
North West -46 3 £344 -34.48% 4
East of England - 3 - - 2
Wales - 2 £240 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 107 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (45.79%) Security Cleared
3 40 (37.38%) SIEM
4 31 (28.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (28.97%) Security Operations
5 28 (26.17%) NIST
6 23 (21.50%) DV Cleared
6 23 (21.50%) Incident Response
6 23 (21.50%) SC Cleared
7 21 (19.63%) Vulnerability Management
8 20 (18.69%) Azure
8 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (18.69%) Security Monitoring
9 19 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (15.89%) Incident Management
10 17 (15.89%) Microsoft
11 14 (13.08%) Threat Detection
12 13 (12.15%) CISSP
12 13 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (12.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 12 (11.21%) GAP Analysis
14 11 (10.28%) AWS
14 11 (10.28%) Cloud Security
14 11 (10.28%) Remediation Plan
15 9 (8.41%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (8.41%) Degree
15 9 (8.41%) Information Security
15 9 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (7.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 8 (7.48%) 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 5 (4.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.69%) Azure
2 11 (10.28%) AWS
3 8 (7.48%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.61%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.80%) GCP
7 3 (2.80%) GitHub
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.87%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.93%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.93%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (3.74%) Firewall
3 3 (2.80%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) Modbus
4 1 (0.93%) NAS
4 1 (0.93%) SAN
4 1 (0.93%) VLAN
4 1 (0.93%) VoIP
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) Power BI
2 1 (0.93%) Big Data
2 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (2.80%) GitLab
1 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.87%) Snyk
2 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.08%) Finance
4 9 (8.41%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Military
8 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Local Government
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.80%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.93%) ADO
2 1 (0.93%) FIDO
2 1 (0.93%) REST
2 1 (0.93%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.63%) Operational Technology
2 8 (7.48%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.61%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.74%) SCADA
6 3 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.80%) NHS
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.87%) CSOC
7 2 (1.87%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.87%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.87%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.67%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) AIX
3 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (37.38%) SIEM
3 31 (28.97%) Security Operations
4 23 (21.50%) Incident Response
5 21 (19.63%) Vulnerability Management
6 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (18.69%) Security Monitoring
7 19 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (15.89%) Incident Management
9 14 (13.08%) Threat Detection
10 13 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (12.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 12 (11.21%) GAP Analysis
12 11 (10.28%) Cloud Security
12 11 (10.28%) Remediation Plan
13 9 (8.41%) Information Security
13 9 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (7.48%) Risk Management
14 8 (7.48%) Threat Intelligence
14 8 (7.48%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.61%) Python
2 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.80%) Bash
4 2 (1.87%) Perl
4 2 (1.87%) SQL
5 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (45.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.50%) DV Cleared
2 23 (21.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) CISSP
4 9 (8.41%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (8.41%) Degree
5 7 (6.54%) GIAC
6 6 (5.61%) CISM
6 6 (5.61%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (4.67%) CEH
7 5 (4.67%) SANS
8 4 (3.74%) CISA
8 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.80%) MCSE
10 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.87%) CBAP
10 2 (1.87%) IIBA
11 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (28.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (26.17%) NIST
3 5 (4.67%) GRC
4 4 (3.74%) GDPR
5 3 (2.80%) COBIT
5 3 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.93%) GxP
7 1 (0.93%) ISA99
7 1 (0.93%) NCSC
7 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.87%) HP Fortify
2 2 (1.87%) Nessus
2 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.87%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 17 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.80%) ArcSight
4 3 (2.80%) Google
4 3 (2.80%) Progress
4 3 (2.80%) Qualys
4 3 (2.80%) Splunk
5 2 (1.87%) Checkmarx
5 2 (1.87%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.87%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.87%) Tenable
5 2 (1.87%) Tripwire
5 2 (1.87%) Veracode
5 2 (1.87%) Workday
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.93%) Snow
6 1 (0.93%) Tanium