Security Analyst Contracts 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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 416 344
Rank change year-on-year +51 -72 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 134 136 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.37% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.39% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 92 221
10th Percentile £325 £376 £363
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £625
90th Percentile £650 £748 £755
UK median daily rate £491 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.43% - +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £49.31 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £54.65 £20.94 £72.50
Median hourly rate £67.93 £30.63 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.80% -59.17% +13.98%
75th Percentile £76.83 £40.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.54 £46.13 -
UK median hourly rate £67.93 £12.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +443.40% -83.33% +13.98%

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 24,457 34,585 45,524
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 92.93% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,942 22,634 32,270
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £747 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,155 2,533 1,388
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.88 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.93 £16.86 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%
75th Percentile £57.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.53 £77.58
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Analyst in England

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Analyst in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Analyst in England

Security Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Analyst in England

Security Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Analyst in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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 +48 65 £525 +5.00% 145
South East +40 25 £520 -3.70% 57
Midlands +16 20 £400 -23.81% 67
East Midlands +13 16 £375 -6.25% 24
South West +36 11 £400 -46.67% 36
North of England -9 5 £475 -5.00% 87
West Midlands -2 4 £608 +15.71% 42
Yorkshire -1 3 £550 +10.00% 48
North West +4 2 £225 -64.71% 38
East of England +23 1 - - 34
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 97 (72.39%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (32.09%) Incident Response
3 39 (29.10%) Information Security
4 36 (26.87%) Microsoft
5 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
6 34 (25.37%) SIEM
7 31 (23.13%) Security Operations
8 29 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (20.90%) Python
10 26 (19.40%) Azure
11 25 (18.66%) Firewall
12 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (15.67%) Vulnerability Management
14 20 (14.93%) AWS
14 20 (14.93%) Security Posture
15 19 (14.18%) NIST
15 19 (14.18%) Security Cleared
16 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
16 18 (13.43%) Windows
17 17 (12.69%) Finance
17 17 (12.69%) PowerShell
18 16 (11.94%) Bash
18 16 (11.94%) Cyber Threat
18 16 (11.94%) ITSM
18 16 (11.94%) Business Continuity
18 16 (11.94%) Penetration Testing
18 16 (11.94%) GRC
18 16 (11.94%) Threat Intelligence
19 15 (11.19%) SOAR
19 15 (11.19%) Risk Management

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 3 (2.24%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.49%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.40%) Azure
2 20 (14.93%) AWS
3 10 (7.46%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.72%) GCP
5 7 (5.22%) SaaS
6 6 (4.48%) Akamai
6 6 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.24%) GitHub
8 3 (2.24%) Slack
9 2 (1.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.75%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.75%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.75%) OpenDNS
10 1 (0.75%) Serverless
10 1 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.66%) Firewall
2 11 (8.21%) Network Security
3 10 (7.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (2.24%) DNS
4 3 (2.24%) HTTP
4 3 (2.24%) SMTP
4 3 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.49%) SSL
5 2 (1.49%) VPN
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.75%) FTP
6 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.75%) NGFW
6 1 (0.75%) VoIP
6 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.46%) Power BI
2 5 (3.73%) Tableau
3 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.24%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Postman
2 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.69%) Finance
4 7 (5.22%) Retail
5 6 (4.48%) Banking
6 5 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.24%) Legal
7 3 (2.24%) Military
8 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Local Government
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.99%) OAuth
2 2 (1.49%) LDAP
2 2 (1.49%) OpenID
2 2 (1.49%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.49%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.49%) SAML
2 2 (1.49%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.93%) Security Posture
2 16 (11.94%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (8.96%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.72%) Operational Technology
5 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.73%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.24%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.49%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.75%) PKI
9 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.43%) Windows
2 10 (7.46%) Linux
3 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (72.39%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (32.09%) Incident Response
3 39 (29.10%) Information Security
4 34 (25.37%) SIEM
5 31 (23.13%) Security Operations
6 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (11.94%) Business Continuity
8 16 (11.94%) ITSM
8 16 (11.94%) Penetration Testing
8 16 (11.94%) Threat Intelligence
9 15 (11.19%) Risk Management
9 15 (11.19%) SOAR
10 14 (10.45%) Cloud Security
10 14 (10.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 13 (9.70%) Data Protection
11 13 (9.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 11 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.90%) Python
2 17 (12.69%) PowerShell
3 16 (11.94%) Bash
4 13 (9.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (7.46%) SQL
6 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) CISSP
3 10 (7.46%) Degree
4 8 (5.97%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (4.48%) CEH
5 6 (4.48%) CISM
5 6 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.48%) GCIH
6 5 (3.73%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.99%) CRISC
8 3 (2.24%) CCNA
8 3 (2.24%) SSCP
9 2 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.49%) CCSP
9 2 (1.49%) CISA
9 2 (1.49%) FFIEC
9 2 (1.49%) GCIA
9 2 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.18%) NIST
2 16 (11.94%) GRC
3 13 (9.70%) GDPR
4 11 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.73%) HIPAA
5 5 (3.73%) NIST 800
6 4 (2.99%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.24%) SLA
7 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (1.49%) NCSC
8 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.75%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.75%) Docker
3 1 (0.75%) Snort
3 1 (0.75%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (3.73%) Nessus
2 4 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) SCCM
2 4 (2.99%) WSUS
3 3 (2.24%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.75%) Nexpose
5 1 (0.75%) Suricata
Vendors
1 36 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.19%) Splunk
3 12 (8.96%) Qualys
4 8 (5.97%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (5.22%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.48%) VMware
7 4 (2.99%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.99%) Google
7 4 (2.99%) Imperva
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle
8 3 (2.24%) ArcSight
8 3 (2.24%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.24%) SAP
9 2 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.49%) Cisco
9 2 (1.49%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.49%) F5
9 2 (1.49%) Varonis