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 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	440	406	360
Rank change year-on-year	-34	-46	+82
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat	260	162	209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.47%	0.49%	0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.35%	1.35%	1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted	157	76	113
10^th Percentile	£425	£463	£490
25^th Percentile	£525	£497	£550
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£578	£635
Median % change year-on-year	-0.43%	-9.06%	+5.83%
75^th Percentile	£750	£700	£738
90^th Percentile	£800	£794	£850
UK excluding London median daily rate	£581	£580	£661
% change year-on-year	+0.22%	-12.19%	+19.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted	28	10	3
10^th Percentile	£60.76	£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 requiring generic IT skills.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	19,296	11,999	11,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	34.89%	36.07%	30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,526	7,366	6,884
10^th Percentile	£320	£293	£280
25^th Percentile	£423	£408	£412
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£515	£528
Median % change year-on-year	+1.94%	-2.37%	-4.09%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£668
90^th Percentile	£750	£750	£800
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£493
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-3.65%	-1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,388	637	400
10^th Percentile	£13.81	£14.29	£16.84
25^th Percentile	£17.48	£18.50	£23.30
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£27.33	£47.37
Median % change year-on-year	+28.06%	-42.31%	+5.27%
75^th Percentile	£67.50	£51.25	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£83.96	£72.50	£75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.99	£26.50	£52.50
% change year-on-year	+28.26%	-49.52%	+2.46%

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 16 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 of jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat 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 Cyber Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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	-48	237	£575	-1.71%	343
UK excluding London	-19	163	£581	+0.22%	242
London	-61	85	£588	+8.29%	130
Work from Home	-52	68	£575	-0.86%	178
South East	-30	49	£575	+10.05%	59
East of England	-16	31	£550	-15.38%	29
South West	-30	28	£800	+6.67%	25
North of England	-48	27	£588	+14.03%	61
North West	-32	23	£575	+11.61%	35
West Midlands	-33	16	£688	+14.58%	22
Midlands	-36	16	£688	+14.58%	30
Scotland	-28	12	£800	+45.45%	25
Wales	-	6	£800	-	12
Yorkshire	-	4	£600	-	20

Cyber Threat Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 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 with a requirement for Cyber Threat.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	72.3%	188
2	Incident Response	51.9%	135
3	Security Cleared	50.4%	131
4	Cyber Threat Intelligence	41.5%	108
4	Security Operations	41.5%	108
4	Threat Intelligence	41.5%	108
7	SC Cleared	36.2%	94
8	SIEM	31.2%	81
9	Vulnerability Management	26.9%	70
10	ISO/IEC 27001	23.1%	60
11	Continuous Improvement	22.7%	59
12	Microsoft	21.9%	57
13	Stakeholder Management	21.5%	56
14	Cyber Intelligence	20.4%	53
15	Azure	19.6%	51
16	Threat Detection	18.8%	49
17	Risk Management	18.5%	48
18	CISSP	16.5%	43
18	NIST	16.5%	43
20	MITRE ATT&CK	16.2%	42
21	Security Monitoring	15.8%	41
22	DV Cleared	15.0%	39
23	AWS	14.2%	37
23	Problem-Solving	14.2%	37
23	Python	14.2%	37
26	CISM	13.8%	36
26	Cloud Security	13.8%	36
28	Incident Management	13.5%	35
28	Information Security	13.5%	35
30	Network Security	13.1%	34

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	14.6%	38
2	Security Posture	11.9%	31
3	Cyber Defence	8.1%	21
4	Onboarding	7.7%	20
5	Management Information System	6.9%	18
5	Operational Technology	6.9%	18
7	Cyberattack	4.6%	12
8	Analytical Mindset	3.1%	8
8	CSOC	3.1%	8
10	Cloud Native	2.3%	6
10	Cyber Kill Chain	2.3%	6
10	Distributed Denial-of-Service	2.3%	6
10	IoT	2.3%	6
10	SCADA	2.3%	6
15	Data Protection Act	1.9%	5
15	Industrial Internet of Things	1.9%	5
17	Hybrid Cloud	1.5%	4
17	PKI	1.5%	4
19	YARA	1.2%	3
20	Cloud Security Posture	0.8%	2