Security Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Security Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Analyst daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 357 395
Rank change year-on-year -58 +38 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 211 148 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.54% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 93 88
10th Percentile £370 £325 £400
25th Percentile £425 £388 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £601
90th Percentile £625 £648 £700
UK median daily rate £544 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £46.25 £49.31 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £54.65 -
Median hourly rate £57.05 £67.93 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +35.85% -
75th Percentile £65.26 £76.83 -
90th Percentile £72.13 £79.54 -
UK median hourly rate £57.05 £67.93 £12.50
% change year-on-year -16.02% +443.40% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 42,268 25,250 30,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.54% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,556 16,282 20,186
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,197 1,355 1,747
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% +2.87%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Security Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in England

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Analyst in England

Security Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in England

Security Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Analyst in England

Security 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 Security Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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 -56 83 £550 +10.00% 77
South East -24 76 £550 +10.00% 50
North of England -67 24 £440 -9.74% 47
North West -44 17 £450 - 32
West Midlands -48 10 £600 +6.19% 17
Midlands -51 10 £600 +50.00% 29
South West -45 9 £650 +62.50% 27
Yorkshire -40 7 £400 -27.27% 14
East of England -27 2 £400 - 9
Security Analyst
UK

Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, Security 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 job ads across the England region featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1 148 (70.14%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (35.55%) Security Operations
3 61 (28.91%) SIEM
4 58 (27.49%) NIST
5 55 (26.07%) Security Cleared
6 49 (23.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (20.85%) Incident Response
7 44 (20.85%) Vulnerability Management
8 38 (18.01%) Microsoft
9 36 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (15.64%) Information Security
10 33 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (14.69%) Azure
11 31 (14.69%) DV Cleared
12 29 (13.74%) Incident Management
13 27 (12.80%) SC Cleared
13 27 (12.80%) Threat Detection
14 26 (12.32%) Security Monitoring
15 22 (10.43%) Risk Management
15 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (9.95%) Cloud Security
17 20 (9.48%) Workshop Facilitation
18 19 (9.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
19 18 (8.53%) Application Security
19 18 (8.53%) Business Analysis
19 18 (8.53%) CISSP
20 17 (8.06%) Cyber Essentials
20 17 (8.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
20 17 (8.06%) Process Improvement
20 17 (8.06%) Threat Intelligence

Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (1.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.69%) Azure
2 16 (7.58%) Azure Sentinel
3 15 (7.11%) AWS
4 12 (5.69%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.32%) SaaS
7 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.90%) GCP
10 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.42%) GitHub
11 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.95%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.95%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.47%) Akamai
12 1 (0.47%) IaaS
12 1 (0.47%) PaaS
12 1 (0.47%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.64%) Network Security
2 7 (3.32%) Firewall
3 5 (2.37%) Intranet
4 4 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.42%) HTTP
6 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.47%) DNS
7 1 (0.47%) Modbus
7 1 (0.47%) NAS
7 1 (0.47%) SAN
7 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.47%) VoIP
7 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.37%) Power BI
2 1 (0.47%) Big Data
2 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (1.42%) GitLab
1 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.42%) JIRA
2 2 (0.95%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.95%) Snyk
2 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.95%) Finance
4 17 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.84%) Banking
9 5 (2.37%) Military
9 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.42%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.90%) FIDO
1 4 (1.90%) WebAuthn
2 3 (1.42%) REST
3 1 (0.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.85%) Operational Technology
2 23 (10.90%) Security Operations Centre
3 18 (8.53%) Onboarding
4 17 (8.06%) Security Posture
5 15 (7.11%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (4.74%) SCADA
7 8 (3.79%) Cyber Defence
7 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.90%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.90%) CMDB
10 3 (1.42%) PKI
11 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.95%) CSOC
11 2 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.95%) Insider Threat
11 2 (0.95%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.21%) Windows
2 7 (3.32%) Linux
3 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (70.14%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (35.55%) Security Operations
3 61 (28.91%) SIEM
4 44 (20.85%) Incident Response
4 44 (20.85%) Vulnerability Management
5 36 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (15.64%) Information Security
6 33 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 29 (13.74%) Incident Management
8 27 (12.80%) Threat Detection
9 26 (12.32%) Security Monitoring
10 22 (10.43%) Risk Management
10 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (9.95%) Cloud Security
12 20 (9.48%) Workshop Facilitation
13 19 (9.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 18 (8.53%) Application Security
14 18 (8.53%) Business Analysis
15 17 (8.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 17 (8.06%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.21%) Python
2 9 (4.27%) Kusto Query Language
3 8 (3.79%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.90%) SQL
5 3 (1.42%) Bash
6 2 (0.95%) Perl
7 1 (0.47%) C
7 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 55 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.69%) DV Cleared
3 27 (12.80%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.53%) CISSP
5 14 (6.64%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.69%) CompTIA CySA+
7 9 (4.27%) Degree
7 9 (4.27%) GIAC
8 6 (2.84%) CISM
9 5 (2.37%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.37%) CEH
9 5 (2.37%) SANS
10 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.90%) IIBA
10 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.42%) CISA
11 3 (1.42%) GCIA
11 3 (1.42%) GCIH
11 3 (1.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (27.49%) NIST
2 49 (23.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (7.11%) GRC
5 9 (4.27%) GDPR
5 9 (4.27%) NIST 800
6 8 (3.79%) NCSC
7 7 (3.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.84%) IASME
8 6 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (2.37%) SLA
10 4 (1.90%) COBIT
11 2 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.95%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.95%) HP Fortify
2 2 (0.95%) Nexpose
2 2 (0.95%) Puppet
2 2 (0.95%) QRadar
2 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.95%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.74%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (3.32%) Splunk
4 4 (1.90%) Google
4 4 (1.90%) Tenable
5 3 (1.42%) ArcSight
5 3 (1.42%) Qualys
5 3 (1.42%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.95%) Checkmarx
6 2 (0.95%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds
6 2 (0.95%) Tanium
6 2 (0.95%) Veracode
7 1 (0.47%) Clearswift
7 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.47%) Databricks
7 1 (0.47%) SGI
7 1 (0.47%) Snow
7 1 (0.47%) Tripwire
7 1 (0.47%) Varonis