Cyber Threat Contract Job Trends

Cyber Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	430	406	360
Rank change year-on-year	-24	-46	+85
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat	277	162	197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.51%	0.47%	0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.42%	1.32%	1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	169	78	102
10^th Percentile	£413	£463	£463
25^th Percentile	£508	£500	£538
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£580	£613
Median % change year-on-year	-0.86%	-5.31%	+2.08%
75^th Percentile	£750	£697	£709
90^th Percentile	£800	£791	£788
UK excluding London median daily rate	£581	£600	£650
% change year-on-year	-3.13%	-7.69%	+18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted	29	10	3
10^th Percentile	£60.77	£41.94	£40.25
25^th Percentile	-	£45.00	£46.25
Median hourly rate	£80.00	£47.00	£57.50
Median % change year-on-year	+70.21%	-18.26%	+29.21%
75^th Percentile	£85.00	£74.38	£58.75
90^th Percentile	£92.11	£76.00	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£80.00	£55.00	£57.50
% change year-on-year	+45.45%	-4.35%	+29.21%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing generic IT skills.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	19,503	12,295	11,228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	35.79%	35.82%	30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,642	7,561	6,662
10^th Percentile	£319	£283	£275
25^th Percentile	£421	£406	£410
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£513	£527
Median % change year-on-year	+2.44%	-2.71%	-4.23%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£663
90^th Percentile	£738	£750	£788
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£493
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-3.65%	-1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,494	669	352
10^th Percentile	£13.71	£13.50	£16.87
25^th Percentile	£17.48	£18.00	£22.47
Median hourly rate	£35.11	£27.00	£41.25
Median % change year-on-year	+30.04%	-34.55%	-6.78%
75^th Percentile	£67.50	£50.00	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£72.50	£75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£45.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-44.11%	-2.56%

Cyber Threat Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Threat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cyber Threat Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyber Threat.

Cyber Threat Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyber Threat.

Cyber Threat Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-9	246	£588	-2.08%	145
UK excluding London	-9	168	£581	-3.13%	158
London	-50	92	£600	+10.60%	25
Work from Home	-24	74	£575	-1.71%	38
South East	-28	50	£575	+10.05%	28
East of England	-11	31	£550	-15.38%	18
South West	-21	28	£800	+6.67%	21
North of England	-58	25	£525	+1.81%	39
North West	-26	21	£474	-8.00%	18
Midlands	-34	19	£625	+4.17%	23
West Midlands	-26	18	£625	+4.17%	13
Scotland	-15	14	£525	-4.55%	18
Wales	-	7	£800	-	10
Yorkshire	-	4	£600	-	13
East Midlands	-	1	-	-	10

Cyber Threat Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Cyber Threat also mentioned 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 citing Cyber Threat.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	72.2%	200
2	Security Cleared	49.8%	138
3	Incident Response	49.5%	137
4	Cyber Threat Intelligence	42.6%	118
4	Threat Intelligence	42.6%	118
6	Security Operations	42.2%	117
7	SC Cleared	35.7%	99
8	SIEM	31.4%	87
9	Vulnerability Management	27.1%	75
10	Microsoft	25.3%	70
11	Stakeholder Management	24.5%	68
12	Continuous Improvement	24.2%	67
13	ISO/IEC 27001	23.8%	66
14	Azure	20.6%	57
15	Cyber Intelligence	19.5%	54
16	NIST	19.1%	53
17	Risk Management	18.8%	52
18	CISSP	18.1%	50
18	Threat Detection	18.1%	50
20	MITRE ATT&CK	17.3%	48
21	Cloud Security	16.6%	46
22	Python	15.9%	44
22	Security Monitoring	15.9%	44
24	AWS	15.2%	42
24	CISM	15.2%	42
26	Problem-Solving	14.8%	41
27	Incident Management	13.7%	38
27	Network Security	13.7%	38
29	DV Cleared	13.4%	37
30	Information Security	13.0%	36

Cyber Threat Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Operations Centre	14.8%	41
2	Security Posture	11.6%	32
3	Cyber Defence	7.9%	22
4	Onboarding	7.2%	20
5	Management Information System	6.5%	18
6	Operational Technology	6.1%	17
7	Cyberattack	4.3%	12
8	Distributed Denial-of-Service	3.2%	9
9	Analytical Mindset	2.9%	8
9	CSOC	2.9%	8
11	Cloud Native	2.5%	7
12	Cyber Kill Chain	2.2%	6
12	Hybrid Cloud	2.2%	6
12	IoT	2.2%	6
15	Data Protection Act	1.8%	5
15	Industrial Internet of Things	1.8%	5
15	SCADA	1.8%	5
18	PKI	1.4%	4
19	Product Ownership	1.1%	3
19	YARA	1.1%	3