Cybersecurity Analyst Contract Job Trends

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 474 505
Rank change year-on-year -97 +31 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 132 79 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 52 32
10th Percentile £358 £303 £413
25th Percentile £413 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £615
90th Percentile £775 £649 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
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 £68.07 £63.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.63 - £73.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.05 - £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 50,556 30,128 35,360
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 90.91% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,767 19,028 21,436
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £636 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,987 1,619 1,546
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.78 £17.27 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.96
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.45% -3.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.31 £74.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.69% -2.27%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -67 122 £563 +8.17% 75
UK excluding London -81 77 £575 +15.00% 67
South East -21 50 £587 +18.04% 17
London -63 46 £550 +5.77% 21
Work from Home -76 25 £468 +10.44% 33
South West -33 9 £645 +84.29% 7
North of England -73 8 £425 -18.27% 20
North West -47 5 £385 -26.76% 9
East of England - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -39 3 £575 +10.58% 3
Wales - 3 £240 -
Scotland -35 2 £375 -22.52% 12
West Midlands -43 1 £250 -52.38% 6
Midlands -52 1 £250 -52.38% 12

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 132 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (43.94%) SIEM
3 51 (38.64%) Security Cleared
4 49 (37.12%) Security Operations
5 40 (30.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (27.27%) NIST
7 32 (24.24%) Microsoft
7 32 (24.24%) Security Monitoring
8 31 (23.48%) Vulnerability Management
9 28 (21.21%) Incident Response
10 26 (19.70%) DV Cleared
11 24 (18.18%) Incident Management
12 23 (17.42%) Azure
13 22 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (16.67%) SC Cleared
14 21 (15.91%) Threat Detection
15 20 (15.15%) Information Security
15 20 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (12.88%) AWS
16 17 (12.88%) Risk Management
17 16 (12.12%) CISSP
18 15 (11.36%) Entra ID
18 15 (11.36%) GRC
18 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (10.61%) Data Protection
19 14 (10.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
20 13 (9.85%) Cloud Security
20 13 (9.85%) CrowdStrike
20 13 (9.85%) Degree
20 13 (9.85%) Remediation Plan

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 7 (5.30%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.42%) Azure
2 17 (12.88%) AWS
3 15 (11.36%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.30%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (5.30%) GCP
6 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.27%) Akamai
7 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.52%) GitHub
8 2 (1.52%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.52%) SaaS
9 1 (0.76%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.76%) IaaS
9 1 (0.76%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) HTTP
1 4 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (3.03%) Network Security
2 3 (2.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) Modbus
3 1 (0.76%) NAS
3 1 (0.76%) SAN
3 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.79%) Power BI
2 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.52%) GitLab
1 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.52%) Snyk
1 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 49 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.12%) Finance
4 12 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.55%) Banking
7 5 (3.79%) Military
8 4 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Law
9 2 (1.52%) Local Government
9 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Back Office
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.55%) FIDO
1 6 (4.55%) WebAuthn
2 3 (2.27%) REST
3 2 (1.52%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.76%) JSON
4 1 (0.76%) LDAP
4 1 (0.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.64%) Operational Technology
2 15 (11.36%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 10 (7.58%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (6.06%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.55%) CMDB
6 6 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (4.55%) Mobile Payment
6 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.55%) Smartcard
7 5 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (3.03%) Cyberattack
8 4 (3.03%) NHS
8 4 (3.03%) SCADA
9 3 (2.27%) CSOC
10 2 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.85%) Windows
2 11 (8.33%) Linux
3 5 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (43.94%) SIEM
3 49 (37.12%) Security Operations
4 32 (24.24%) Security Monitoring
5 31 (23.48%) Vulnerability Management
6 28 (21.21%) Incident Response
7 24 (18.18%) Incident Management
8 22 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (15.91%) Threat Detection
10 20 (15.15%) Information Security
10 20 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (12.88%) Risk Management
12 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (10.61%) Data Protection
13 14 (10.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 13 (9.85%) Cloud Security
14 13 (9.85%) Remediation Plan
14 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (9.09%) Application Security
15 12 (9.09%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.03%) PowerShell
1 4 (3.03%) Python
2 3 (2.27%) Bash
2 3 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.52%) Korn
3 2 (1.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 51 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.70%) DV Cleared
3 22 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 16 (12.12%) CISSP
5 13 (9.85%) Degree
6 10 (7.58%) CISM
7 9 (6.82%) CISA
8 7 (5.30%) CompTIA CySA+
8 7 (5.30%) GIAC
9 6 (4.55%) IISP
10 5 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (3.79%) CCSP
10 5 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.79%) CLAS
10 5 (3.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (3.79%) CREST Certified
10 5 (3.79%) SANS
11 3 (2.27%) CEH
11 3 (2.27%) MCSE
11 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (30.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (27.27%) NIST
3 15 (11.36%) GRC
4 11 (8.33%) GDPR
5 8 (6.06%) PCI DSS
6 7 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 6 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (4.55%) ISO 31000
7 6 (4.55%) ISO 9001
8 5 (3.79%) NCSC
9 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.52%) SLA
10 1 (0.76%) COBIT
10 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.79%) ISA Server
2 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.52%) Docker
3 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.76%) NFS
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.79%) CASB
2 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.27%) Nessus
3 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.52%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.85%) CrowdStrike
3 11 (8.33%) Splunk
4 10 (7.58%) Qualys
5 9 (6.82%) Google
6 6 (4.55%) Tripwire
7 5 (3.79%) Centrify
7 5 (3.79%) Cisco
7 5 (3.79%) F5
8 4 (3.03%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.27%) ArcSight
9 3 (2.27%) Tenable
10 2 (1.52%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.52%) LogRhythm
10 2 (1.52%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.52%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.52%) Veracode
10 2 (1.52%) VMware
10 2 (1.52%) Workday