Cybersecurity Analyst Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in England is £560 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 534 678
Rank change year-on-year +78 +144 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 75 112 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 76 61
10th Percentile £400 £378 £385
25th Percentile £500 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - +18.60%
75th Percentile £745 £653 £613
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +20.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £63.73 -
25th Percentile - £65.19 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £75.19 £68.90
90th Percentile - £76.58 £69.26
UK median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +6.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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 +75 29 £538 -6.52% 7
North of England +39 19 £570 +3.64% 2
North West +22 15 £570 +16.92% 2
South West +17 13 £750 +24.22% 2
South East +12 9 £544 +8.80% 5
Yorkshire +22 4 £750 +36.36%
East of England +12 4 £535 +18.89%
East Midlands +14 1 - -
Midlands +4 1 - - 2
Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Cybersecurity Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
3 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 18 (24.00%) SIEM
5 17 (22.67%) Azure
5 17 (22.67%) NIST
6 16 (21.33%) CISSP
7 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Excel
7 14 (18.67%) Identity Access Management
8 13 (17.33%) Remediation Plan
8 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (17.33%) SharePoint
8 13 (17.33%) Active Directory
8 13 (17.33%) Banking
8 13 (17.33%) Data Protection
8 13 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (17.33%) Entra ID
9 12 (16.00%) CyberArk
9 12 (16.00%) SailPoint
9 12 (16.00%) QA
9 12 (16.00%) Use Case
9 12 (16.00%) Incident Response
10 11 (14.67%) IT Strategy
10 11 (14.67%) Business Strategy
10 11 (14.67%) Business Continuity
10 11 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (14.67%) Risk Management
11 10 (13.33%) Information Security
11 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
11 10 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (17.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.67%) Azure
2 13 (17.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.33%) AWS
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) Firewall
2 3 (4.00%) Intranet
3 2 (2.67%) DMZ
3 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.67%) Network Security
4 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Banking
3 8 (10.67%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Law
7 2 (2.67%) Marketing
7 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.67%) Retail
7 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.33%) Electronics
8 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (8.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 6 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (5.33%) CSOC
4 4 (5.33%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.00%) SCADA
5 3 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (24.00%) SIEM
3 14 (18.67%) Identity Access Management
4 13 (17.33%) Data Protection
4 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (17.33%) Remediation Plan
5 12 (16.00%) Incident Response
5 12 (16.00%) Use Case
6 11 (14.67%) Business Continuity
6 11 (14.67%) Business Strategy
6 11 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (14.67%) IT Strategy
6 11 (14.67%) Risk Management
7 10 (13.33%) Information Security
7 10 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 10 (13.33%) Security Operations
7 10 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (12.00%) Cyber Resilience
8 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 9 (12.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) CISSP
2 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.67%) Degree
4 7 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.00%) OSCP
6 5 (6.67%) CEH
7 4 (5.33%) CISA
7 4 (5.33%) CISM
7 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
8 3 (4.00%) CCNA
8 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.00%) GREM
8 3 (4.00%) GSEC
9 2 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.67%) SANS
10 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (1.33%) GIAC
10 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) NIST
2 12 (16.00%) QA
3 5 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.67%) NIST 800
4 3 (4.00%) GDPR
4 3 (4.00%) IASME
5 1 (1.33%) NCSC
5 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (17.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) CyberArk
3 4 (5.33%) Qualys
4 2 (2.67%) Cadence
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco
5 1 (1.33%) Cybereason
5 1 (1.33%) McAfee
5 1 (1.33%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.33%) SAP
5 1 (1.33%) Splunk