Security Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Security Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Analyst daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 386 291
Rank change year-on-year +21 -95 +179
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 151 142 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.44% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.47% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 95 245
10th Percentile £350 £410 £413
25th Percentile £400 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £563 £600 £625
90th Percentile £625 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £491 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -6.43% +0.24% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year +9.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,142 30,231 40,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.98% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,215 18,878 28,055
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,352 1,487 1,370
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.61 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Analyst 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 16 September 2025.

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
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 16 September 2025. 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 +28 66 £500 -4.76% 31
South East +7 23 £488 -11.36% 38
Midlands +2 23 £400 -33.33% 7
East Midlands - 19 £400 - 5
North of England -11 14 £500 - 13
South West +20 11 £400 -44.83% 3
North West -7 9 £450 -10.00% 6
Yorkshire -15 5 £520 +4.00% 7
West Midlands -18 3 £545 -9.17% 2
East of England +5 2 £550 +2.80% 3
Security Analyst
UK

Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Security 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 across the England region featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1 103 (68.21%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (34.44%) Incident Response
3 48 (31.79%) Microsoft
4 47 (31.13%) Information Security
4 47 (31.13%) Social Skills
5 38 (25.17%) Security Operations
5 38 (25.17%) SIEM
6 32 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (19.87%) Firewall
8 29 (19.21%) NIST
9 26 (17.22%) Vulnerability Management
10 25 (16.56%) Azure
10 25 (16.56%) Security Cleared
10 25 (16.56%) Penetration Testing
11 23 (15.23%) Risk Management
12 22 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (14.57%) SC Cleared
13 21 (13.91%) Threat Intelligence
14 20 (13.25%) Security Posture
14 20 (13.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 19 (12.58%) Finance
15 19 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (12.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 18 (11.92%) GRC
16 18 (11.92%) ITSM
16 18 (11.92%) AWS
16 18 (11.92%) Splunk
17 17 (11.26%) CrowdStrike
18 16 (10.60%) Qualys
18 16 (10.60%) Python

Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) GNU Octave
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.56%) Azure
2 18 (11.92%) AWS
3 9 (5.96%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (3.97%) GCP
4 6 (3.97%) SaaS
5 5 (3.31%) Akamai
5 5 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (1.99%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.99%) GitHub
6 3 (1.99%) OpenDNS
6 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.99%) Slack
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.66%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.66%) Serverless
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.87%) Firewall
2 11 (7.28%) Network Security
3 5 (3.31%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.65%) Internet
4 4 (2.65%) NGFW
5 2 (1.32%) Wireless
6 1 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.66%) DNS
6 1 (0.66%) HTTP
6 1 (0.66%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.66%) SMTP
6 1 (0.66%) SSL
6 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.66%) VoIP
6 1 (0.66%) VPN
6 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.99%) Power BI
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.66%) Postman
2 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.58%) Finance
4 10 (6.62%) Banking
4 10 (6.62%) Retail
5 8 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.65%) Law
6 4 (2.65%) Legal
6 4 (2.65%) Military
7 3 (1.99%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.99%) Local Government
8 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Police
9 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.31%) OAuth
2 3 (1.99%) OpenID
3 2 (1.32%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.32%) SAML
3 2 (1.32%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.66%) LDAP
4 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.25%) Security Posture
2 15 (9.93%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (7.95%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.96%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.97%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.31%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.65%) Cybercrime
7 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.65%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.66%) CSOC
9 1 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.66%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.66%) PKI
9 1 (0.66%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.60%) Windows
2 7 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.97%) Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (68.21%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (34.44%) Incident Response
3 47 (31.13%) Information Security
4 38 (25.17%) Security Operations
4 38 (25.17%) SIEM
5 26 (17.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 25 (16.56%) Penetration Testing
7 23 (15.23%) Risk Management
8 22 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (13.91%) Threat Intelligence
10 19 (12.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 19 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (11.92%) ITSM
12 14 (9.27%) Business Continuity
12 14 (9.27%) Data Protection
12 14 (9.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 13 (8.61%) Cloud Security
13 13 (8.61%) Incident Management
13 13 (8.61%) Remediation Plan
13 13 (8.61%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.60%) Python
2 15 (9.93%) Kusto Query Language
3 13 (8.61%) Bash
3 13 (8.61%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.27%) CISSP
4 11 (7.28%) CEH
5 9 (5.96%) CompTIA CySA+
6 8 (5.30%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (5.30%) GIAC
7 7 (4.64%) CISM
8 6 (3.97%) Degree
8 6 (3.97%) GCIH
8 6 (3.97%) OSCP
9 5 (3.31%) CRISC
9 5 (3.31%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.31%) SSCP
10 4 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.65%) GREM
11 3 (1.99%) CCNA
11 3 (1.99%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.99%) GCIA
12 2 (1.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.21%) NIST
2 20 (13.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (11.92%) GRC
4 13 (8.61%) GDPR
5 6 (3.97%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.31%) NCSC
7 4 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.65%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.99%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.99%) SLA
9 2 (1.32%) IASME
9 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.32%) PMO
9 2 (1.32%) QA
9 2 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.66%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.99%) Docker
1 3 (1.99%) Snort
1 3 (1.99%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (4.64%) Kubernetes
1 7 (4.64%) Nessus
2 4 (2.65%) CSIRT
2 4 (2.65%) Nexpose
2 4 (2.65%) SCCM
2 4 (2.65%) WSUS
3 3 (1.99%) Suricata
4 2 (1.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.66%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (31.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.92%) Splunk
3 17 (11.26%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (10.60%) Qualys
5 11 (7.28%) Palo Alto
6 7 (4.64%) F5
6 7 (4.64%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.31%) Google
8 4 (2.65%) Cisco
8 4 (2.65%) Oracle
8 4 (2.65%) SAP
8 4 (2.65%) Tenable
8 4 (2.65%) VMware
8 4 (2.65%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.99%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.99%) Blue Coat
9 3 (1.99%) Carbon Black
9 3 (1.99%) FireEye
9 3 (1.99%) Imperva
9 3 (1.99%) Salesforce