Cybersecurity Analyst Contracts

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 558 710
Rank change year-on-year +77 +152 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 98 126 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 77 78
10th Percentile £413 £363 £387
25th Percentile £508 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £739 £650 £600
90th Percentile £750 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +8.57% -6.67% +32.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.75 £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +13.98% -
75th Percentile £76.25 £77.50 £68.90
90th Percentile - - £69.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +67 77 £570 +3.64% 19
UK excluding London +52 64 £570 +8.57% 11
London +77 28 £544 -5.43% 7
Work from Home +72 21 £515 -1.90% 10
North of England +38 19 £570 +3.64% 2
Scotland +50 15 £525 - 1
North West +22 15 £570 +16.92% 2
South West +19 13 £750 +24.22% 4
South East +2 11 £544 +8.80% 2
Yorkshire +24 4 £750 +36.36%
Midlands +14 4 £500 -14.89% 2
East of England +8 4 £535 +18.89%
West Midlands +7 3 £500 -13.04% 2
East Midlands +7 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 98 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (33.67%) SIEM
2 33 (33.67%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.49%) Microsoft
4 23 (23.47%) Information Security
5 21 (21.43%) Use Case
6 19 (19.39%) Azure
6 19 (19.39%) Banking
6 19 (19.39%) CISSP
7 18 (18.37%) Vulnerability Management
7 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (18.37%) Identity Access Management
7 18 (18.37%) Remediation Plan
8 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (17.35%) Entra ID
8 17 (17.35%) Active Directory
8 17 (17.35%) Microsoft Excel
8 17 (17.35%) SharePoint
8 17 (17.35%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 16 (16.33%) CyberArk
9 16 (16.33%) SailPoint
9 16 (16.33%) QA
9 16 (16.33%) NIST
10 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
10 15 (15.31%) Management Information System
11 14 (14.29%) Risk Management
11 14 (14.29%) Data Protection
11 14 (14.29%) Incident Management
11 14 (14.29%) Incident Response
12 13 (13.27%) Roadmaps

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (17.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (17.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.02%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.39%) Azure
2 17 (17.35%) Entra ID
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.02%) AWS
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) Firewall
2 7 (7.14%) Network Security
3 4 (4.08%) DHCP
3 4 (4.08%) DNS
3 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.08%) VLAN
3 4 (4.08%) VPN
4 3 (3.06%) Intranet
5 2 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 33 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Banking
3 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.20%) Finance
6 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Marketing
7 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.04%) Electronics
8 2 (2.04%) French Language
8 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Management Information System
2 12 (12.24%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (7.14%) Operational Technology
4 6 (6.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (5.10%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.10%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (4.08%) CSOC
7 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.06%) SCADA
7 3 (3.06%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (33.67%) SIEM
3 23 (23.47%) Information Security
4 21 (21.43%) Use Case
5 18 (18.37%) Identity Access Management
5 18 (18.37%) Remediation Plan
5 18 (18.37%) Vulnerability Management
6 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.35%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 14 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 14 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 14 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 14 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 13 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (13.27%) Roadmaps
9 12 (12.24%) Penetration Testing
9 12 (12.24%) Security Operations
9 12 (12.24%) Strategic Roadmap
10 11 (11.22%) Business Strategy
10 11 (11.22%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) CISSP
2 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.24%) Degree
4 9 (9.18%) CEH
5 7 (7.14%) CCNA
5 7 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.12%) CISM
6 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.12%) OSCP
7 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
8 4 (4.08%) APMP
8 4 (4.08%) CISA
8 4 (4.08%) PMP
9 3 (3.06%) GREM
9 3 (3.06%) GSEC
10 2 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.04%) GIAC
10 2 (2.04%) SANS
11 1 (1.02%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.33%) NIST
1 16 (16.33%) QA
2 13 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (5.10%) NIST 800
5 3 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.06%) IASME
6 2 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.04%) GDPR
7 1 (1.02%) GRC
7 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (17.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Firmware
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) QRadar
2 1 (1.02%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.02%) Nessus
2 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.33%) CyberArk
3 3 (3.06%) Qualys
4 2 (2.04%) Cadence
4 2 (2.04%) SAP
4 2 (2.04%) Splunk
5 1 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco
5 1 (1.02%) Cybereason
5 1 (1.02%) McAfee
5 1 (1.02%) Okta
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle
5 1 (1.02%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
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