UEBA Contract Job Trends

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring UEBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 545 561
Rank change year-on-year -106 +16 +89
Contract jobs citing UEBA 9 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.018% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.020% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £566 £713 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £638
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £625
% change year-on-year - - +5.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

UEBA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

UEBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

UEBA job vacancy trend in the UK

UEBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UEBA

UEBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UEBA over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UEBA in the UK

UEBA
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UEBA within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 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
London -70 9 £750 +3.45% 2
England -109 9 £750 +3.45% 2

UEBA
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Security Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) FIDO
1 4 (44.44%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) CMDB
1 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) SIEM
3 5 (55.56%) Threat Detection
4 4 (44.44%) AI
4 4 (44.44%) Application Security
4 4 (44.44%) Dependency Management
4 4 (44.44%) Fund Management
4 4 (44.44%) Identity Management
4 4 (44.44%) Runbook
4 4 (44.44%) SBOM
4 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
4 4 (44.44%) Threat Analysis
4 4 (44.44%) Workflow
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (22.22%) Logistics
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk