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 5 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 359 408
Rank change year-on-year -56 +49 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 195 134 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.51% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.55% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 81 93
10th Percentile £361 £325 £378
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £650
90th Percentile £613 £650 £745
UK median daily rate £550 £491 £525
% change year-on-year +11.96% -6.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £19.74 £49.31 £15.13
25th Percentile £33.28 £54.65 £20.94
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.93 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +121.80% -59.17%
75th Percentile £59.38 £76.83 £40.31
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.54 £46.13
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 40,742 24,429 34,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.16% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,924 15,931 22,680
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,147 2,542
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.94 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.37 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £38.50
% change year-on-year +62.57% -31.30% -10.47%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -62 80 £550 +4.76% 34
South East -34 47 £550 +5.77% 35
North of England -58 20 £450 -5.26% 28
South West -15 19 £573 +43.13% 7
Midlands -61 17 £550 +37.50% 26
West Midlands -52 14 £600 -1.23% 10
North West -33 11 £450 +100.00% 14
Yorkshire -48 9 £469 -14.77% 12
East Midlands -28 3 £400 +6.67% 16
East of England -28 3 - - 10
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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.

1 115 (58.97%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (27.69%) SIEM
3 52 (26.67%) Security Cleared
4 51 (26.15%) NIST
5 50 (25.64%) Security Operations
6 47 (24.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 36 (18.46%) Information Security
9 33 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (15.90%) Azure
10 31 (15.90%) Microsoft
10 31 (15.90%) Vulnerability Management
11 28 (14.36%) SC Cleared
12 27 (13.85%) DV Cleared
12 27 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (10.26%) CISSP
13 20 (10.26%) Security Monitoring
14 19 (9.74%) Risk Management
14 19 (9.74%) Threat Detection
15 18 (9.23%) Application Security
15 18 (9.23%) Cloud Security
15 18 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (8.21%) AWS
16 16 (8.21%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (8.21%) Incident Management
16 16 (8.21%) Process Improvement
17 15 (7.69%) Business Analysis
17 15 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (7.69%) GAP Analysis
17 15 (7.69%) GRC

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 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.90%) Azure
2 16 (8.21%) AWS
2 16 (8.21%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (5.13%) Entra ID
4 9 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (4.10%) SaaS
6 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.54%) GCP
8 3 (1.54%) GitHub
8 3 (1.54%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.03%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.64%) Network Security
2 6 (3.08%) Firewall
3 5 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.03%) HTTP
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) Modbus
5 1 (0.51%) NAS
5 1 (0.51%) SAN
5 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
5 1 (0.51%) VoIP
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.54%) Power BI
2 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.51%) Big Data
2 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.54%) GitLab
1 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.03%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.03%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Snyk
2 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 62 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.36%) Finance
4 12 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.59%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Banking
8 4 (2.05%) Military
9 3 (1.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Local Government
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.03%) OAuth
1 2 (1.03%) OpenID
1 2 (1.03%) SailPoint
1 2 (1.03%) SAML
2 1 (0.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Operational Technology
2 15 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.18%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (7.18%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.64%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (5.13%) SCADA
6 9 (4.62%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.03%) CSOC
8 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.03%) PKI
8 2 (1.03%) Robotics
8 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.51%) BYOD
9 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.62%) Windows
2 5 (2.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (58.97%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (27.69%) SIEM
3 50 (25.64%) Security Operations
4 39 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 36 (18.46%) Information Security
6 33 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (15.90%) Vulnerability Management
8 27 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (10.26%) Security Monitoring
10 19 (9.74%) Risk Management
10 19 (9.74%) Threat Detection
11 18 (9.23%) Application Security
11 18 (9.23%) Cloud Security
11 18 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (8.21%) Incident Management
12 16 (8.21%) Process Improvement
13 15 (7.69%) Business Analysis
13 15 (7.69%) GAP Analysis
13 15 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
14 14 (7.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.10%) Kusto Query Language
1 8 (4.10%) Python
1 8 (4.10%) SQL
2 7 (3.59%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.54%) Bash
4 2 (1.03%) Perl
5 1 (0.51%) C
5 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 52 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.85%) DV Cleared
4 20 (10.26%) CISSP
5 15 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (5.64%) CompTIA CySA+
6 11 (5.64%) Degree
7 9 (4.62%) GIAC
8 8 (4.10%) CISM
9 7 (3.59%) CEH
10 5 (2.56%) CISA
10 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.56%) SANS
11 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.54%) GCIA
11 3 (1.54%) GCIH
11 3 (1.54%) MCSE
11 3 (1.54%) SSCP
12 2 (1.03%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (26.15%) NIST
2 47 (24.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (7.69%) GRC
4 10 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (5.13%) GDPR
5 9 (4.62%) NIST 800
6 8 (4.10%) NCSC
7 6 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (3.08%) IASME
7 6 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (2.05%) COBIT
9 2 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.03%) SLA
9 2 (1.03%) SOC 1
9 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.51%) ISA99
10 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (4.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.03%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.03%) Nexpose
3 2 (1.03%) Puppet
3 2 (1.03%) Terraform
4 1 (0.51%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.51%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.10%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (3.08%) Qualys
3 6 (3.08%) Splunk
4 5 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.05%) Progress
5 4 (2.05%) Tenable
6 3 (1.54%) ArcSight
6 3 (1.54%) Google
7 2 (1.03%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.03%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.03%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.03%) Tanium
7 2 (1.03%) Tripwire
7 2 (1.03%) Veracode
8 1 (0.51%) Clearswift
8 1 (0.51%) Databricks
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) Snow
127 Security Analyst jobs in England