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 23 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 364 428
Rank change year-on-year -67 +64 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 196 142 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.52% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.57% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 86 88
10th Percentile £355 £325 £396
25th Percentile £425 £380 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £612
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £46.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £64.09 £54.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% +9.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £66.42 £72.30 -
90th Percentile £73.25 £77.73 -
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £54.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +17.60% +336.00% -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 41,522 25,105 32,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.81% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,299 16,309 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,983 1,254 2,147
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.51
25th Percentile £22.46 £17.87 £18.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% -35.78% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -58 76 £550 +10.00% 25
South East -35 59 £556 +11.25% 21
North of England -51 25 £450 -5.26% 19
North West -31 16 £450 +100.00% 11
Midlands -61 15 £600 +50.00% 17
West Midlands -51 14 £600 +6.19% 5
South West -36 12 £640 +60.00% 8
Yorkshire -43 9 £469 -14.77% 8
East of England -25 1 - - 4
East Midlands -27 1 £550 +46.67% 12
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 127 (64.80%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (29.08%) Security Operations
3 56 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 52 (26.53%) NIST
4 52 (26.53%) SIEM
5 46 (23.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (18.88%) Incident Response
7 33 (16.84%) Information Security
7 33 (16.84%) Microsoft
7 33 (16.84%) Vulnerability Management
8 31 (15.82%) SC Cleared
9 30 (15.31%) Azure
9 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.29%) DV Cleared
11 27 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (11.22%) Risk Management
12 22 (11.22%) Threat Detection
13 21 (10.71%) Security Monitoring
14 20 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (9.69%) CISSP
16 17 (8.67%) Cloud Security
16 17 (8.67%) Incident Management
16 17 (8.67%) Workshop Facilitation
17 16 (8.16%) Application Security
17 16 (8.16%) AWS
17 16 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
17 16 (8.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 15 (7.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (7.65%) Process Improvement
19 14 (7.14%) Business Analysis

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 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.31%) Azure
2 16 (8.16%) AWS
2 16 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
3 11 (5.61%) Entra ID
4 9 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.06%) SaaS
6 4 (2.04%) GCP
6 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.53%) GitHub
8 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.02%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.61%) Network Security
2 6 (3.06%) Firewall
3 5 (2.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.02%) 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 6 (3.06%) Power BI
2 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.51%) Big Data
2 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.53%) GitLab
1 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.02%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.02%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Snyk
2 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.24%) Finance
4 13 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Banking
8 4 (2.04%) Military
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
10 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.02%) OAuth
1 2 (1.02%) OpenID
1 2 (1.02%) REST
1 2 (1.02%) SailPoint
1 2 (1.02%) SAML
2 1 (0.51%) FIDO
2 1 (0.51%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Operational Technology
2 16 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 16 (8.16%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (5.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.10%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.10%) SCADA
5 8 (4.08%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (4.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.02%) CSOC
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.02%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.02%) PKI
6 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.51%) CMDB
7 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Windows
2 5 (2.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (64.80%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (29.08%) Security Operations
3 52 (26.53%) SIEM
4 37 (18.88%) Incident Response
5 33 (16.84%) Information Security
5 33 (16.84%) Vulnerability Management
6 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (11.22%) Risk Management
8 22 (11.22%) Threat Detection
9 21 (10.71%) Security Monitoring
10 20 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (8.67%) Cloud Security
11 17 (8.67%) Incident Management
11 17 (8.67%) Workshop Facilitation
12 16 (8.16%) Application Security
12 16 (8.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 15 (7.65%) Process Improvement
14 14 (7.14%) Business Analysis
14 14 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
1 8 (4.08%) Python
2 7 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.55%) SQL
4 3 (1.53%) Bash
5 2 (1.02%) Perl
6 1 (0.51%) C
6 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 56 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 19 (9.69%) CISSP
5 15 (7.65%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (6.12%) CompTIA CySA+
7 10 (5.10%) Degree
8 9 (4.59%) GIAC
9 7 (3.57%) CISM
10 6 (3.06%) CEH
11 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.55%) SANS
12 4 (2.04%) CISA
13 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.53%) GCIA
13 3 (1.53%) GCIH
13 3 (1.53%) MCSE
14 2 (1.02%) IIBA
14 2 (1.02%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (26.53%) NIST
2 46 (23.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (7.14%) GRC
4 10 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (4.59%) GDPR
5 9 (4.59%) NIST 800
6 8 (4.08%) NCSC
7 6 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (3.06%) IASME
7 6 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (2.04%) COBIT
9 2 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.02%) SLA
9 2 (1.02%) SOC 1
9 2 (1.02%) 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 5 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.02%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.02%) Nexpose
3 2 (1.02%) Puppet
3 2 (1.02%) QRadar
3 2 (1.02%) Terraform
4 1 (0.51%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.10%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (3.57%) Splunk
4 4 (2.04%) Google
4 4 (2.04%) Qualys
4 4 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.53%) ArcSight
5 3 (1.53%) Progress
5 3 (1.53%) Tenable
6 2 (1.02%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.02%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.02%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.02%) Tanium
6 2 (1.02%) Tripwire
6 2 (1.02%) Veracode
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco
7 1 (0.51%) Clearswift
7 1 (0.51%) NEC
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
80 Security Analyst jobs in England