Hybrid/Remote Cybersecurity Analyst Contract Job Trends

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 302 346
Rank change year-on-year +8 +44 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 28 23 43
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.28% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 23
10th Percentile £330 £413 £388
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £564
90th Percentile £553 £651 £648
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.20 - -
25th Percentile £38.63 £68.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.17% - -
75th Percentile £58.13 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £61.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £61.25 -
% change year-on-year -23.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,343 11,207 17,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 93.21% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,111 7,049 12,376
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 193 386
10th Percentile £14.81 £19.36 £16.82
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.50 £24.98
Median hourly rate £41.50 £41.57 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -16.87% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.38 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.39 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.74% -16.91% +57.89%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cybersecurity Analyst' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cybersecurity Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Cybersecurity Analyst job vacancies

Cybersecurity Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Cybersecurity Analyst hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Cybersecurity Analyst contract job roles required 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (32.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 9 (32.14%) SIEM
3 9 (32.14%) Threat Intelligence
4 8 (28.57%) CEH
4 8 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 7 (25.00%) Business Analysis
6 6 (21.43%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (21.43%) GIAC
6 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 6 (21.43%) OSCP
6 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (17.86%) Firewall
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.86%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (17.86%) Security Operations
7 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (14.29%) CISSP
8 4 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
8 4 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
8 4 (14.29%) GREM
8 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (14.29%) Malware Reverse Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Offensive Security
8 4 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) Agile

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.57%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Akamai
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Internet
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security
3 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (7.14%) SMTP
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Law
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (14.29%) Cybercrime
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (32.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 9 (32.14%) SIEM
3 9 (32.14%) Threat Intelligence
4 8 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 7 (25.00%) Business Analysis
6 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.86%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (17.86%) Security Operations
7 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
8 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (14.29%) Malware Reverse Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Offensive Security
8 4 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) Agile
9 3 (10.71%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
2 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) CEH
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) CompTIA CySA+
2 6 (21.43%) GIAC
2 6 (21.43%) OSCP
3 4 (14.29%) CISSP
3 4 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) GREM
4 3 (10.71%) FFIEC
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (7.14%) CCNA
5 2 (7.14%) CCSP
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.14%) CISM
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) GRC
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (7.14%) Darktrace
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Imperva
3 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.14%) Qualys
3 2 (7.14%) Tenable