Security Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 439 383
Rank change year-on-year -8 -56 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Analyst 346 347 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.58% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.65% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 308 250 340
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,306
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -0.67% +1.24%
75th Percentile £57,500 £54,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,875 £63,775
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,146 53,642 68,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.24% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,498 30,589 42,749
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Security Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +72 104 £45,000 -3.23% 17
South East +16 89 £50,000 +2.56% 15
North West +14 58 £45,000 -3.23% 7
South West +11 51 £55,000 +12.82% 6
Midlands -25 51 £47,500 -5.00% 5
West Midlands -17 29 £39,750 -20.50% 4
Scotland -46 29 £48,507 -2.99% 7
Yorkshire +74 24 £55,000 +37.50% 10
North East +17 22 £40,000 -
East Midlands +2 22 £52,500 +31.25% 1
East of England +4 19 £47,500 +11.76% 2
Wales -3 2 £41,250 +17.86%
Northern Ireland +16 1 - - 1
Security Analyst
UK

Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Security Analyst 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 permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1 216 (62.43%) Cybersecurity
2 185 (53.47%) Information Security
3 133 (38.44%) Azure
4 131 (37.86%) SIEM
5 104 (30.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 95 (27.46%) Cloud Security
7 92 (26.59%) Firewall
8 88 (25.43%) Microsoft
9 74 (21.39%) Security Operations
10 73 (21.10%) Microsoft 365
11 71 (20.52%) Incident Response
12 69 (19.94%) CISSP
13 68 (19.65%) Social Skills
14 67 (19.36%) Vulnerability Management
15 64 (18.50%) NIST
16 58 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
17 56 (16.18%) Cyber Essentials
18 52 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
18 52 (15.03%) Risk Management
19 49 (14.16%) Management Information System
20 44 (12.72%) Windows
20 44 (12.72%) Cyberattack
20 44 (12.72%) Vulnerability Remediation
21 41 (11.85%) Degree
21 41 (11.85%) GDPR
22 36 (10.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
22 36 (10.40%) PCI DSS
23 35 (10.12%) CompTIA Security+
23 35 (10.12%) Incident Management
23 35 (10.12%) DNS

Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (0.87%) IIS
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 133 (38.44%) Azure
2 73 (21.10%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (7.51%) AWS
4 17 (4.91%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.89%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.02%) SaaS
7 4 (1.16%) IaaS
7 4 (1.16%) PaaS
7 4 (1.16%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.87%) GCP
9 2 (0.58%) OCI
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 92 (26.59%) Firewall
2 35 (10.12%) DNS
3 30 (8.67%) DKIM
3 30 (8.67%) DMARC
4 26 (7.51%) Internet
5 19 (5.49%) Network Security
6 16 (4.62%) WAN
7 15 (4.34%) LAN
8 14 (4.05%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (2.89%) VPN
10 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.87%) Wireless
11 2 (0.58%) 5G
11 2 (0.58%) VoIP
12 1 (0.29%) 802.11
12 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
12 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.29%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.16%) Power BI
2 2 (0.58%) Tableau
General
1 68 (19.65%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (9.25%) Finance
3 32 (9.25%) Law
4 25 (7.23%) Retail
5 15 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.76%) Legal
7 12 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.60%) Banking
9 4 (1.16%) Automotive
9 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.87%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.58%) Advertising
11 2 (0.58%) Electronics
11 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.16%) Management Information System
2 44 (12.72%) Cyberattack
3 32 (9.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 21 (6.07%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (3.76%) Operational Technology
7 12 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 11 (3.18%) IoT
9 8 (2.31%) Cyber Security Posture
9 8 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 3 (0.87%) CSOC
14 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.87%) SCADA
15 2 (0.58%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.72%) Windows
2 20 (5.78%) Windows Server
3 16 (4.62%) Linux
4 8 (2.31%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (62.43%) Cybersecurity
2 185 (53.47%) Information Security
3 131 (37.86%) SIEM
4 95 (27.46%) Cloud Security
5 74 (21.39%) Security Operations
6 71 (20.52%) Incident Response
7 67 (19.36%) Vulnerability Management
8 52 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (15.03%) Risk Management
9 44 (12.72%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 36 (10.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 35 (10.12%) Incident Management
12 33 (9.54%) Penetration Testing
13 31 (8.96%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 29 (8.38%) Security Architecture
15 27 (7.80%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 26 (7.51%) Internal Audit
16 26 (7.51%) SOAR
17 25 (7.23%) Threat Intelligence
18 23 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.18%) Python
2 6 (1.73%) Bash
2 6 (1.73%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.58%) C#
3 2 (0.58%) Java
3 2 (0.58%) SQL
4 1 (0.29%) C++
4 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 69 (19.94%) CISSP
2 41 (11.85%) Degree
3 35 (10.12%) CompTIA Security+
4 32 (9.25%) CISM
5 30 (8.67%) Security Cleared
6 26 (7.51%) CISA
7 17 (4.91%) CEH
8 16 (4.62%) CompTIA CySA+
9 13 (3.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 13 (3.76%) CCSP
9 13 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.76%) GIAC
10 11 (3.18%) DV Cleared
10 11 (3.18%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 9 (2.60%) Azure Certification
12 9 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.60%) CRISC
12 9 (2.60%) SSCP
13 6 (1.73%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (30.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (18.50%) NIST
3 56 (16.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 41 (11.85%) GDPR
5 36 (10.40%) PCI DSS
6 23 (6.65%) GRC
7 20 (5.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (3.76%) NCSC
9 5 (1.45%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.87%) COBIT
10 3 (0.87%) QA
10 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.87%) SLA
10 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.87%) TickIT
11 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.58%) ITGC
12 1 (0.29%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 31 (8.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (10.12%) CASB
2 12 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.73%) Nessus
5 5 (1.45%) WSUS
6 3 (0.87%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 88 (25.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
3 9 (2.60%) Cisco
3 9 (2.60%) Rapid7
4 7 (2.02%) Proofpoint
5 6 (1.73%) Splunk
6 5 (1.45%) Intel
6 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.16%) Qualys
8 3 (0.87%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.58%) BT
9 2 (0.58%) Facebook
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Sun
10 1 (0.29%) Citrix
10 1 (0.29%) ConnectWise
10 1 (0.29%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.29%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.29%) iManage
10 1 (0.29%) LogRhythm