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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 367 404
Rank change year-on-year -46 +37 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 219 149 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.59% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 90 89
10th Percentile £370 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £646 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.82% -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 £31.25
% change year-on-year -16.02% +117.36% -

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 42,287 25,412 30,763
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 91.57% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,391 16,412 19,714
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,267 1,364 1,626
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.71 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.96%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -43 93 £556 +5.95% 35
South East -17 75 £550 +12.82% 38
North of England -56 26 £450 -7.69% 29
North West -37 20 £450 - 20
West Midlands -39 8 £600 +6.19% 10
South West -44 8 £650 +62.50% 12
Midlands -62 8 £600 +50.00% 21
Yorkshire -42 6 £400 -27.27% 8
East of England -16 2 £400 - 9
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 159 (72.60%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (36.99%) Security Operations
3 68 (31.05%) SIEM
4 66 (30.14%) Security Cleared
5 54 (24.66%) NIST
6 48 (21.92%) Incident Response
7 47 (21.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 46 (21.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 42 (19.18%) Microsoft
10 38 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (16.44%) SC Cleared
12 34 (15.53%) Incident Management
13 33 (15.07%) Azure
13 33 (15.07%) DV Cleared
14 32 (14.61%) Information Security
14 32 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (12.79%) Security Monitoring
15 28 (12.79%) Threat Detection
16 23 (10.50%) Cloud Security
17 22 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (9.59%) Workshop Facilitation
19 20 (9.13%) Risk Management
20 19 (8.68%) Application Security
20 19 (8.68%) AWS
20 19 (8.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
21 18 (8.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
21 18 (8.22%) Threat Intelligence
22 17 (7.76%) CISSP
23 16 (7.31%) Azure Sentinel
23 16 (7.31%) Cyber Essentials

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 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.07%) Azure
2 19 (8.68%) AWS
3 16 (7.31%) Azure Sentinel
4 15 (6.85%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (3.20%) SaaS
8 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.28%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.83%) GCP
11 3 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.37%) GitHub
12 2 (0.91%) Akamai
12 2 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.91%) Azure Stack
12 2 (0.91%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.46%) IaaS
13 1 (0.46%) PaaS
13 1 (0.46%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.39%) Network Security
2 7 (3.20%) Firewall
3 5 (2.28%) Intranet
4 4 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.37%) HTTP
6 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.46%) DNS
7 1 (0.46%) Modbus
7 1 (0.46%) NAS
7 1 (0.46%) SAN
7 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.46%) VoIP
7 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.28%) Power BI
2 1 (0.46%) Big Data
2 1 (0.46%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (1.37%) GitLab
1 3 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.37%) JIRA
2 2 (0.91%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.91%) Snyk
2 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 73 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.13%) Finance
4 18 (8.22%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.20%) Military
8 5 (2.28%) Banking
8 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (0.91%) Law
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.28%) FIDO
1 5 (2.28%) WebAuthn
2 4 (1.83%) REST
3 2 (0.91%) Terraform
4 1 (0.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.96%) Security Operations Centre
2 23 (10.50%) Operational Technology
3 19 (8.68%) Onboarding
4 17 (7.76%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (7.76%) Security Posture
5 13 (5.94%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.65%) SCADA
8 5 (2.28%) CMDB
8 5 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.83%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.37%) PKI
11 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.91%) CSOC
11 2 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.91%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.91%) Insider Threat
11 2 (0.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.02%) Windows
2 7 (3.20%) Linux
3 3 (1.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (72.60%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (36.99%) Security Operations
3 68 (31.05%) SIEM
4 48 (21.92%) Incident Response
5 46 (21.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 38 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (15.53%) Incident Management
8 32 (14.61%) Information Security
8 32 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (12.79%) Security Monitoring
9 28 (12.79%) Threat Detection
10 23 (10.50%) Cloud Security
11 22 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (9.59%) Workshop Facilitation
13 20 (9.13%) Risk Management
14 19 (8.68%) Application Security
14 19 (8.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 18 (8.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 18 (8.22%) Threat Intelligence
16 16 (7.31%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.48%) Kusto Query Language
2 11 (5.02%) Python
3 8 (3.65%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.37%) Bash
4 3 (1.37%) SQL
5 2 (0.91%) Perl
6 1 (0.46%) C
6 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 66 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 33 (15.07%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.76%) CISSP
5 14 (6.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (5.48%) CompTIA CySA+
7 9 (4.11%) GIAC
8 8 (3.65%) Degree
9 5 (2.28%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.28%) CEH
9 5 (2.28%) CISM
9 5 (2.28%) SANS
10 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.83%) IIBA
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.37%) CISA
11 3 (1.37%) GCIA
11 3 (1.37%) GCIH
11 3 (1.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.66%) NIST
2 47 (21.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (6.85%) GRC
5 9 (4.11%) GDPR
6 8 (3.65%) NIST 800
6 8 (3.65%) SLA
7 7 (3.20%) NCSC
8 6 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (2.28%) IASME
9 5 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.37%) COBIT
11 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.91%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
2 2 (0.91%) Nexpose
2 2 (0.91%) Puppet
2 2 (0.91%) QRadar
2 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.48%) Splunk
3 10 (4.57%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (1.83%) Google
4 4 (1.83%) Qualys
4 4 (1.83%) Tenable
5 3 (1.37%) ArcSight
5 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.91%) Checkmarx
6 2 (0.91%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.91%) SolarWinds
6 2 (0.91%) Tanium
6 2 (0.91%) Veracode
7 1 (0.46%) Clearswift
7 1 (0.46%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.46%) Databricks
7 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.46%) SGI
7 1 (0.46%) Snow
7 1 (0.46%) Varonis