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 7 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 355 394
Rank change year-on-year -65 +39 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 169 120 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 74 117
10th Percentile £355 £316 £360
25th Percentile £425 £385 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £675
90th Percentile £613 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.46 £49.31 -
25th Percentile £20.31 £54.65 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.93 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +503.78% -85.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £76.83 -
90th Percentile £61.25 £79.54 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.93 £12.50
% change year-on-year -30.07% +443.40% -83.33%

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 39,050 22,484 34,573
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.41% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,103 14,805 22,701
10th Percentile £325 £289 £285
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,751 964 2,604
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.78 £30.00 £38.14
Median % change year-on-year +52.60% -21.33% -15.26%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £28.30 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.04% -24.55% -16.67%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -63 68 £550 +4.76% 28
South East -42 40 £550 +4.76% 39
North of England -59 19 £450 -10.00% 38
South West -17 17 £525 +31.25% 18
Midlands -53 16 £400 -11.11% 18
North West -37 10 £450 -10.00% 21
West Midlands -53 10 £400 -24.88% 9
Yorkshire -48 8 £469 - 14
East Midlands -34 6 £400 +6.67% 9
East of England -22 2 - - 13
North East - 1 £400 - 3
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 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 97 (57.40%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (25.44%) NIST
3 41 (24.26%) Security Cleared
3 41 (24.26%) SIEM
4 37 (21.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (21.89%) Security Operations
5 35 (20.71%) Information Security
6 32 (18.93%) Incident Response
7 29 (17.16%) Azure
7 29 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (15.98%) Microsoft
9 25 (14.79%) Vulnerability Management
10 24 (14.20%) SC Cleared
11 20 (11.83%) CISSP
11 20 (11.83%) DV Cleared
12 19 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (10.65%) Risk Management
14 16 (9.47%) Application Security
15 15 (8.88%) Cloud Security
15 15 (8.88%) GAP Analysis
16 14 (8.28%) AWS
16 14 (8.28%) GRC
16 14 (8.28%) Threat Detection
17 13 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (7.69%) Incident Management
17 13 (7.69%) Process Improvement
17 13 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
17 13 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
18 12 (7.10%) Analytics
18 12 (7.10%) CI/CD

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 2 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.16%) Azure
2 14 (8.28%) AWS
3 13 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (4.73%) SaaS
6 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.55%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.78%) GCP
8 3 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.78%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.18%) GitHub
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.59%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.59%) Serverless
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.92%) Network Security
2 7 (4.14%) Firewall
3 4 (2.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.18%) DMZ
5 1 (0.59%) HTTP
5 1 (0.59%) Modbus
5 1 (0.59%) NAS
5 1 (0.59%) SAN
5 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
5 1 (0.59%) VoIP
5 1 (0.59%) VPN
5 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.78%) Power BI
2 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.59%) Big Data
2 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.18%) GitLab
1 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.18%) JIRA
2 1 (0.59%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.59%) Snyk
2 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.38%) Finance
4 9 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.55%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.37%) Banking
7 3 (1.78%) Legal
7 3 (1.78%) Marketing
8 2 (1.18%) Military
9 1 (0.59%) Advertising
9 1 (0.59%) Local Government
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.18%) OAuth
1 2 (1.18%) OpenID
1 2 (1.18%) REST
1 2 (1.18%) SailPoint
1 2 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.24%) Operational Technology
2 13 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 12 (7.10%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (5.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (5.33%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.73%) SCADA
8 4 (2.37%) CSOC
8 4 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.37%) Robotics
9 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.59%) BYOD
10 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.59%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (57.40%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (24.26%) SIEM
3 37 (21.89%) Security Operations
4 35 (20.71%) Information Security
5 32 (18.93%) Incident Response
6 29 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (14.79%) Vulnerability Management
8 19 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (10.65%) Risk Management
10 16 (9.47%) Application Security
11 15 (8.88%) Cloud Security
11 15 (8.88%) GAP Analysis
12 14 (8.28%) Threat Detection
13 13 (7.69%) Incident Management
13 13 (7.69%) Process Improvement
13 13 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
14 12 (7.10%) Analytics
14 12 (7.10%) CI/CD
14 12 (7.10%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.73%) Kusto Query Language
1 8 (4.73%) SQL
2 5 (2.96%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 41 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.83%) CISSP
3 20 (11.83%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.10%) Degree
5 10 (5.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (5.33%) CEH
6 9 (5.33%) CISM
7 8 (4.73%) GIAC
8 6 (3.55%) CISA
9 5 (2.96%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (2.96%) SANS
10 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.78%) SSCP
12 2 (1.18%) GCIA
12 2 (1.18%) GCIH
12 2 (1.18%) IIBA
12 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.59%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.59%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (25.44%) NIST
2 37 (21.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.28%) GRC
4 9 (5.33%) GDPR
5 8 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (4.73%) NIST 800
6 6 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (3.55%) IASME
6 6 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (3.55%) NCSC
7 4 (2.37%) COBIT
8 3 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.18%) SLA
9 2 (1.18%) SOC 1
9 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.59%) PMO
10 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.18%) Nexpose
3 2 (1.18%) Puppet
4 1 (0.59%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.55%) Qualys
3 5 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.96%) Splunk
4 4 (2.37%) Progress
4 4 (2.37%) Tenable
5 3 (1.78%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.18%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.59%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco
7 1 (0.59%) Databricks
7 1 (0.59%) Google
7 1 (0.59%) NEC
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.59%) Snow
7 1 (0.59%) Tanium
7 1 (0.59%) Tripwire
7 1 (0.59%) Veracode
135 Security Analyst jobs in England