Security Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Security Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Analyst daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 382 372
Rank change year-on-year -30 -10 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 170 106 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.47% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 74 132
10th Percentile £340 £357 £357
25th Percentile £413 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £663
90th Percentile £631 £646 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 3
10th Percentile £21.08 £49.31 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £54.65 -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £67.93 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.89% +503.78% -82.76%
75th Percentile £36.00 £76.83 £15.09
90th Percentile £42.08 £79.54 £17.39
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £67.93 £12.50
% change year-on-year -52.89% +443.40% -80.84%

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 36,247 22,616 34,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.68% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,781 15,117 23,069
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,412 859 2,363
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.38 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.53 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -5.88% -21.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.49
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -41 63 £525 - 12
South East -52 36 £550 +10.00% 24
Midlands -56 19 £400 -23.81% 24
North of England -59 17 £470 -8.29% 23
South West -15 16 £525 -4.55% 5
Yorkshire -45 11 £500 - 11
East of England -27 10 £475 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -56 10 £325 -38.10% 13
East Midlands - 9 £425 - 11
North West -34 5 £438 -14.63% 11
North East - 1 £400 - 1
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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 78 (45.88%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (24.71%) Information Security
3 41 (24.12%) Incident Response
4 40 (23.53%) NIST
5 39 (22.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (18.82%) Security Operations
7 31 (18.24%) Microsoft
8 30 (17.65%) SIEM
9 28 (16.47%) Security Cleared
10 24 (14.12%) SC Cleared
11 22 (12.94%) CISSP
12 21 (12.35%) AWS
12 21 (12.35%) Azure
13 20 (11.76%) GRC
14 19 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (11.18%) Threat Detection
14 19 (11.18%) Vulnerability Management
15 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (10.59%) Risk Management
16 16 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (8.82%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (8.82%) Network Security
17 15 (8.82%) Process Improvement
18 14 (8.24%) CISM
18 14 (8.24%) GDPR
19 13 (7.65%) Agile
19 13 (7.65%) Cloud Security
19 13 (7.65%) GAP Analysis
19 13 (7.65%) Splunk
20 12 (7.06%) CEH

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 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.35%) AWS
1 21 (12.35%) Azure
2 7 (4.12%) Azure Sentinel
2 7 (4.12%) GCP
2 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (2.94%) Entra ID
3 5 (2.94%) SaaS
4 4 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.35%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.18%) Serverless
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.59%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.59%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.59%) GitHub
7 1 (0.59%) OCI
7 1 (0.59%) OpenDNS
7 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.59%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.82%) Network Security
2 9 (5.29%) Firewall
3 5 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.18%) DMZ
4 2 (1.18%) DNS
4 2 (1.18%) HTTP
4 2 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.18%) VPN
5 1 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.59%) NAS
5 1 (0.59%) SAN
5 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.59%) SMTP
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
5 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.35%) Power BI
2 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.59%) Big Data
2 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.59%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.59%) GitLab
2 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.35%) Finance
4 11 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.53%) Banking
5 6 (3.53%) Legal
5 6 (3.53%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.35%) Marketing
7 4 (2.35%) Military
7 4 (2.35%) Retail
8 2 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Local Government
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.76%) OAuth
1 3 (1.76%) SAML
2 2 (1.18%) ISPF
2 2 (1.18%) OpenID
2 2 (1.18%) REST
2 2 (1.18%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.59%) eBPF
3 1 (0.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.24%) Operational Technology
2 13 (7.65%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (7.65%) Security Posture
3 11 (6.47%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (5.29%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (4.12%) SCADA
7 7 (4.12%) Virtual Team
8 6 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (2.94%) Robotics
10 4 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) CSOC
11 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.59%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.35%) Windows
2 3 (1.76%) Linux
3 2 (1.18%) zOS
4 1 (0.59%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.88%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (24.71%) Information Security
3 41 (24.12%) Incident Response
4 32 (18.82%) Security Operations
5 30 (17.65%) SIEM
6 19 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (11.18%) Threat Detection
6 19 (11.18%) Vulnerability Management
7 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (10.59%) Risk Management
8 16 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (8.82%) Process Improvement
10 13 (7.65%) Agile
10 13 (7.65%) Cloud Security
10 13 (7.65%) GAP Analysis
11 12 (7.06%) Security Management
12 11 (6.47%) Application Security
12 11 (6.47%) CI/CD
13 10 (5.88%) Containerisation
13 10 (5.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.71%) Python
1 8 (4.71%) SQL
2 7 (4.12%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (3.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.76%) Bash
5 2 (1.18%) CLIST
5 2 (1.18%) JCL
5 2 (1.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 28 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.94%) CISSP
4 15 (8.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 14 (8.24%) CISM
6 12 (7.06%) CEH
7 10 (5.88%) Degree
8 9 (5.29%) GIAC
9 8 (4.71%) DV Cleared
10 6 (3.53%) CISA
11 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.35%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.76%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.76%) CRISC
12 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.18%) CCNP
13 2 (1.18%) CCSP
13 2 (1.18%) IIBA
13 2 (1.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.53%) NIST
2 39 (22.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (11.76%) GRC
4 14 (8.24%) GDPR
5 12 (7.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (5.88%) NCSC
8 8 (4.71%) NIST 800
9 6 (3.53%) IASME
9 6 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (2.94%) PCI DSS
11 4 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (1.76%) COBIT
13 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.59%) GxP
14 1 (0.59%) ISA99
14 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) RACF
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) Snort
3 1 (0.59%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.18%) Nessus
2 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.18%) zSecure
3 1 (0.59%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.59%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.59%) Nexpose
3 1 (0.59%) Nmap
3 1 (0.59%) Suricata
Vendors
1 31 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.65%) Splunk
3 7 (4.12%) Qualys
3 7 (4.12%) Tenable
4 6 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.35%) Google
6 3 (1.76%) Cisco
6 3 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.76%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.76%) Progress
6 3 (1.76%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.18%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.18%) IBM
7 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.18%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.59%) Blue Coat
8 1 (0.59%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.59%) FireEye
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle
8 1 (0.59%) Tripwire