Cybersecurity Analyst Contracts

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 15 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 573 712
Rank change year-on-year +89 +139 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 100 124 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 73 80
10th Percentile £413 £363 £387
25th Percentile £508 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £739 £650 £600
90th Percentile £750 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +11.22% -6.82% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £51.88 - -
25th Percentile £54.69 £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate £61.25 £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +13.98% -
75th Percentile £69.69 £77.50 £68.90
90th Percentile £73.63 - £69.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -33.33% +13.98% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 14 Contract 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 June 2024. 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 +60 79 £570 +2.93% 24
UK excluding London +33 65 £570 +11.22% 17
London +61 29 £538 -6.52% 8
Work from Home +79 22 £515 -3.96% 13
North of England +27 19 £570 +16.92% 2
Scotland +58 15 £525 - 3
North West +21 15 £570 +16.92% 2
South West +10 12 £750 +24.22% 6
South East +6 11 £544 +8.80% 3
Midlands +7 5 £500 -14.89% 1
East of England +6 5 £535 +18.89% 2
West Midlands +11 4 £500 -13.04% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £750 -
East Midlands +4 1 - -

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 June 2024, Cybersecurity Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (34.00%) SIEM
3 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
4 27 (27.00%) Microsoft
5 23 (23.00%) Information Security
6 21 (21.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 21 (21.00%) Use Case
7 20 (20.00%) Azure
8 19 (19.00%) Banking
8 19 (19.00%) Remediation Plan
9 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (18.00%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (18.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 18 (18.00%) Active Directory
9 18 (18.00%) Microsoft Excel
10 17 (17.00%) SharePoint
10 17 (17.00%) CISSP
10 17 (17.00%) Entra ID
10 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (16.00%) CyberArk
11 16 (16.00%) Management Information System
11 16 (16.00%) SailPoint
11 16 (16.00%) QA
11 16 (16.00%) Data Protection
12 15 (15.00%) NIST
13 14 (14.00%) Incident Response
13 14 (14.00%) Incident Management
13 14 (14.00%) Security Cleared
14 13 (13.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 13 (13.00%) Disaster Recovery

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (17.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (18.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.00%) Azure
2 17 (17.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.00%) AWS
6 1 (1.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.00%) Firewall
2 8 (8.00%) Network Security
3 4 (4.00%) DHCP
3 4 (4.00%) DNS
3 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.00%) VLAN
3 4 (4.00%) VPN
4 3 (3.00%) Intranet
5 2 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.00%) SMTP
6 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.00%) Banking
3 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.00%) Finance
6 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
6 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.00%) Electronics
7 2 (2.00%) French Language
7 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.00%) Law
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 13 (13.00%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (6.00%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.00%) CSOC
6 3 (3.00%) SCADA
6 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (34.00%) SIEM
3 23 (23.00%) Information Security
4 21 (21.00%) Use Case
4 21 (21.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 19 (19.00%) Remediation Plan
6 18 (18.00%) Identity Access Management
6 18 (18.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.00%) Data Protection
9 14 (14.00%) Incident Management
9 14 (14.00%) Incident Response
10 13 (13.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (13.00%) Risk Management
10 13 (13.00%) Roadmaps
11 12 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
11 12 (12.00%) Security Operations
11 12 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
12 11 (11.00%) IT Strategy
12 11 (11.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.00%) SQL
2 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) CISSP
2 14 (14.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.00%) Degree
4 9 (9.00%) CEH
5 7 (7.00%) CCNA
5 7 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.00%) CISM
7 5 (5.00%) OSCP
7 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 4 (4.00%) APMP
8 4 (4.00%) PMP
9 3 (3.00%) CISA
9 3 (3.00%) GIAC
10 2 (2.00%) GCIA
10 2 (2.00%) GCIH
10 2 (2.00%) GREM
10 2 (2.00%) GSEC
10 2 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.00%) QA
2 15 (15.00%) NIST
3 13 (13.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (9.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (4.00%) NIST 800
6 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (3.00%) IASME
7 2 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.00%) GDPR
8 1 (1.00%) GRC
System Software
1 18 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) Nessus
1 3 (3.00%) QRadar
2 2 (2.00%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (3.00%) Qualys
4 2 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.00%) SAP
4 2 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (1.00%) Cadence
5 1 (1.00%) Cisco
5 1 (1.00%) Cybereason
5 1 (1.00%) Google
5 1 (1.00%) McAfee
5 1 (1.00%) Okta
5 1 (1.00%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow