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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 356 300
Rank change year-on-year -6 -56 +165
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 175 157 299
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.50% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.54% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 104 233
10th Percentile £348 £413 £415
25th Percentile £400 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £548 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £673
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -5.24% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.20 - -
25th Percentile £38.63 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £50.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +164.13% -67.08%
75th Percentile £58.13 - -
90th Percentile £61.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £50.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -6.00% +164.13% -67.08%

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 27,117 29,070 37,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.99% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,434 17,754 25,839
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,602 1,095 1,412
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -10.81% +50.70%
75th Percentile £51.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%

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 7 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Analyst in England over the 6 months to 7 November 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 7 November 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 0 72 £500 -4.76% 44
South East -20 31 £488 -2.50% 65
Midlands 0 26 £400 -27.27% 23
East Midlands - 22 £400 - 12
North of England -24 17 £500 - 13
South West +7 14 £447 -40.43% 12
North West -18 11 £334 -33.20% 8
Yorkshire -25 6 £520 +4.00% 4
West Midlands -32 3 £588 +6.82% 10
East of England -17 2 £550 -6.38% 18
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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.

1 121 (69.14%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (35.43%) Incident Response
3 58 (33.14%) SIEM
4 52 (29.71%) Information Security
5 51 (29.14%) Microsoft
6 47 (26.86%) Security Operations
7 43 (24.57%) NIST
8 37 (21.14%) Security Cleared
9 33 (18.86%) AWS
9 33 (18.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 33 (18.86%) Risk Management
10 32 (18.29%) Firewall
10 32 (18.29%) SC Cleared
10 32 (18.29%) Splunk
11 31 (17.71%) Penetration Testing
12 30 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (16.57%) CISSP
13 29 (16.57%) Vulnerability Management
14 25 (14.29%) Agile
14 25 (14.29%) Azure
15 24 (13.71%) Threat Intelligence
16 22 (12.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 22 (12.57%) GRC
17 21 (12.00%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (10.86%) CompTIA CySA+
18 19 (10.86%) ITSM
18 19 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
19 18 (10.29%) Degree
19 18 (10.29%) GDPR
19 18 (10.29%) Threat Detection

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 1 (0.57%) Confluence
1 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.14%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.86%) AWS
2 25 (14.29%) Azure
3 10 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (5.14%) GCP
5 6 (3.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.43%) SaaS
6 5 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.29%) Cloudflare
7 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.29%) OpenDNS
8 3 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.71%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.71%) GitHub
8 3 (1.71%) Slack
9 2 (1.14%) Akamai
9 2 (1.14%) OCI
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.57%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.57%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.29%) Firewall
2 14 (8.00%) Network Security
3 5 (2.86%) HTTP
3 5 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.29%) Internet
4 4 (2.29%) NGFW
5 3 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.14%) DNS
6 2 (1.14%) SMTP
6 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.14%) Wireless
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.43%) Power BI
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) Postman
3 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 65 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.43%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.29%) Finance
4 12 (6.86%) Retail
5 11 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.00%) Banking
7 6 (3.43%) Law
7 6 (3.43%) Legal
7 6 (3.43%) Military
8 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.14%) OAuth
1 2 (1.14%) OpenID
1 2 (1.14%) PyTorch
1 2 (1.14%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.57%) LDAP
2 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.57%) REST
2 1 (0.57%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.43%) Security Posture
2 19 (10.86%) Cyber Defence
3 17 (9.71%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.86%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.29%) Cybercrime
8 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.29%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.71%) BYOD
10 2 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.57%) CSOC
11 1 (0.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.57%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.57%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.00%) Windows
2 6 (3.43%) Linux
3 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (69.14%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (35.43%) Incident Response
3 58 (33.14%) SIEM
4 52 (29.71%) Information Security
5 47 (26.86%) Security Operations
6 33 (18.86%) Risk Management
7 31 (17.71%) Penetration Testing
8 30 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (16.57%) Vulnerability Management
10 25 (14.29%) Agile
11 24 (13.71%) Threat Intelligence
12 22 (12.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 19 (10.86%) ITSM
13 19 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (10.29%) Threat Detection
15 17 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (9.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 16 (9.14%) SOAR
17 15 (8.57%) Security Management
18 14 (8.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.14%) Python
2 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.43%) Bash
4 12 (6.86%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (21.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.57%) CISSP
4 19 (10.86%) CompTIA CySA+
5 18 (10.29%) Degree
6 15 (8.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (8.00%) CEH
8 13 (7.43%) CISM
9 11 (6.29%) GIAC
10 10 (5.71%) DV Cleared
11 9 (5.14%) GCIH
12 7 (4.00%) OSCP
13 6 (3.43%) GCIA
13 6 (3.43%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (3.43%) SANS
13 6 (3.43%) SSCP
14 5 (2.86%) CRISC
15 4 (2.29%) CCNA
15 4 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (2.29%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (24.57%) NIST
2 33 (18.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (12.57%) GRC
4 18 (10.29%) GDPR
5 9 (5.14%) NCSC
5 9 (5.14%) PCI DSS
6 8 (4.57%) NIST 800
7 6 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.71%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.71%) IASME
9 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.71%) SLA
10 2 (1.14%) PMO
11 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.29%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) Snort
2 4 (2.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.43%) Nessus
3 5 (2.86%) CSIRT
3 5 (2.86%) Nexpose
4 4 (2.29%) Suricata
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (1.14%) SCCM
5 2 (1.14%) WSUS
6 1 (0.57%) Ansible
6 1 (0.57%) Nmap
6 1 (0.57%) QRadar
6 1 (0.57%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (29.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.29%) Splunk
3 21 (12.00%) CrowdStrike
4 14 (8.00%) Qualys
5 10 (5.71%) Palo Alto
6 9 (5.14%) Google
7 7 (4.00%) F5
7 7 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.43%) Tenable
8 6 (3.43%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.86%) Cisco
10 4 (2.29%) Blue Coat
10 4 (2.29%) Carbon Black
10 4 (2.29%) FireEye
10 4 (2.29%) Oracle
10 4 (2.29%) SAP
11 3 (1.71%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.71%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.71%) Darktrace
11 3 (1.71%) Rapid7