Security Analytics Contracts

Security Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Security Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Analytics over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 680 812
Rank change year-on-year +96 +132 -128
Contract jobs citing Security Analytics 2 13 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.022% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.025% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 26
10th Percentile - £562 £506
25th Percentile - £613 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £625 £581
Median % change year-on-year -36.64% +7.53% +22.37%
75th Percentile - £638 £630
90th Percentile - £667 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -36.64% +8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Security Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Analytics in the UK

Security Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Security Analytics in the UK

Security Analytics
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +82 2 £396 -36.64%
UK excluding London +65 2 £396 -36.64%
South West +15 1 - -
South East - 1 £396 -

Security Analytics
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CSOC
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (50.00%) SAP