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

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	426	412	361
Rank change year-on-year	-14	-51	+95
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat	274	163	204
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.50%	0.48%	0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.41%	1.35%	1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	166	79	109
10^th Percentile	£425	£463	£463
25^th Percentile	£525	£494	£540
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£588	£580	£625
Median % change year-on-year	+1.29%	-7.20%	+4.76%
75^th Percentile	£750	£694	£725
90^th Percentile	£800	£790	£850
UK excluding London median daily rate	£588	£600	£655
% change year-on-year	-2.08%	-8.40%	+19.09%
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 citing generic IT skills.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	19,390	12,050	11,364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	35.38%	35.83%	30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,576	7,401	6,758
10^th Percentile	£319	£286	£275
25^th Percentile	£423	£406	£410
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£513	£526
Median % change year-on-year	+2.44%	-2.57%	-4.36%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£663
90^th Percentile	£745	£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	1,438	655	371
10^th Percentile	£13.79	£13.67	£17.08
25^th Percentile	£17.52	£18.11	£23.30
Median hourly rate	£35.22	£26.78	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	+31.52%	-40.49%	+2.46%
75^th Percentile	£67.50	£51.25	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£72.50	£75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.99	£25.15	£50.00
% change year-on-year	+35.15%	-49.70%	+8.62%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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	-24	245	£588	-0.84%	377
UK excluding London	-24	167	£588	-2.08%	269
London	-46	91	£600	+12.15%	142
Work from Home	-36	74	£575	-1.71%	175
South East	-25	51	£575	+10.05%	47
East of England	-6	31	£550	-15.38%	39
North of England	-53	28	£575	+11.61%	73
South West	-29	27	£800	+6.67%	22
North West	-31	24	£525	+1.81%	38
West Midlands	-24	16	£688	+14.58%	20
Midlands	-29	16	£688	+14.58%	32
Scotland	-24	13	£800	+45.45%	34
Wales	-	7	£800	-	16
Yorkshire	-	4	£600	-	25

Cyber Threat Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 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	71.5%	196
2	Incident Response	50.0%	137
3	Security Cleared	49.6%	136
4	Cyber Threat Intelligence	43.4%	119
4	Threat Intelligence	43.4%	119
6	Security Operations	42.0%	115
7	SC Cleared	35.8%	98
8	SIEM	32.1%	88
9	Vulnerability Management	27.0%	74
10	Microsoft	24.8%	68
11	Continuous Improvement	23.7%	65
12	Stakeholder Management	23.4%	64
13	ISO/IEC 27001	23.0%	63
14	Cyber Intelligence	21.2%	58
15	Azure	20.1%	55
16	Risk Management	19.3%	53
17	NIST	17.5%	48
17	Threat Detection	17.5%	48
19	CISSP	17.2%	47
20	MITRE ATT&CK	16.8%	46
21	Cloud Security	15.3%	42
21	Python	15.3%	42
21	Security Monitoring	15.3%	42
24	AWS	14.6%	40
24	CISM	14.6%	40
26	Network Security	14.2%	39
26	Problem-Solving	14.2%	39
28	Incident Management	13.9%	38
29	DV Cleared	13.5%	37
29	Information Security	13.5%	37

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	15.0%	41
2	Security Posture	11.7%	32
3	Cyber Defence	7.7%	21
3	Onboarding	7.7%	21
5	Management Information System	6.6%	18
6	Operational Technology	6.2%	17
7	Cyberattack	4.4%	12
8	Analytical Mindset	2.9%	8
8	CSOC	2.9%	8
10	Cloud Native	2.6%	7
10	Distributed Denial-of-Service	2.6%	7
12	Cyber Kill Chain	2.2%	6
12	IoT	2.2%	6
14	Data Protection Act	1.8%	5
14	Industrial Internet of Things	1.8%	5
14	SCADA	1.8%	5
17	Hybrid Cloud	1.5%	4
17	PKI	1.5%	4
19	Product Ownership	1.1%	3
19	YARA	1.1%	3