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 14 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
14 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 363 299
Rank change year-on-year -5 -64 +167
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 180 157 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.54% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 104 228
10th Percentile £350 £413 £421
25th Percentile £400 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.72% -0.71%
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 27,559 29,042 36,964
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 93.00% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,706 17,770 25,618
10th Percentile £281 £300 £295
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,648 1,096 1,418
10th Percentile £14.24 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.32% +50.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +55.05%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +18 74 £500 -4.76% 38
South East -24 30 £494 -1.25% 29
Midlands -7 26 £400 -27.27% 9
East Midlands - 22 £400 - 3
North of England -32 19 £500 - 12
South West +4 16 £375 -50.00% 7
North West -13 11 £334 -33.20% 9
Yorkshire -31 8 £520 +4.00% 2
West Midlands -32 3 £588 +6.82% 6
East of England -21 2 £550 -6.38% 12
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 124 (68.89%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (36.67%) Incident Response
3 58 (32.22%) SIEM
4 53 (29.44%) Information Security
5 51 (28.33%) Microsoft
6 49 (27.22%) Security Operations
7 44 (24.44%) NIST
8 39 (21.67%) Security Cleared
9 36 (20.00%) AWS
10 35 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 34 (18.89%) Risk Management
11 34 (18.89%) SC Cleared
12 32 (17.78%) Firewall
12 32 (17.78%) Penetration Testing
12 32 (17.78%) Vulnerability Management
13 31 (17.22%) Splunk
14 30 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (15.56%) CISSP
16 26 (14.44%) Agile
17 25 (13.89%) Azure
18 23 (12.78%) Threat Intelligence
19 22 (12.22%) GRC
20 21 (11.67%) CrowdStrike
20 21 (11.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
21 20 (11.11%) ITSM
21 20 (11.11%) Threat Detection
22 19 (10.56%) GDPR
22 19 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
23 18 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
23 18 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement

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 (0.56%) Confluence
1 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.11%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (20.00%) AWS
2 25 (13.89%) Azure
3 10 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (5.56%) GCP
4 6 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.33%) SaaS
5 4 (2.22%) Cloudflare
5 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (2.22%) OpenDNS
6 3 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (1.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.67%) GitHub
6 3 (1.67%) OCI
6 3 (1.67%) Slack
7 2 (1.11%) Akamai
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.78%) Firewall
2 15 (8.33%) Network Security
3 5 (2.78%) HTTP
3 5 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.22%) Internet
4 4 (2.22%) NGFW
4 4 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.11%) DNS
5 2 (1.11%) SMTP
5 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.11%) Wireless
6 1 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.22%) JIRA
2 2 (1.11%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Postman
3 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.00%) Finance
4 13 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.67%) Retail
6 7 (3.89%) Banking
6 7 (3.89%) Legal
6 7 (3.89%) Military
7 6 (3.33%) Law
8 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.11%) OAuth
1 2 (1.11%) OpenID
1 2 (1.11%) PyTorch
1 2 (1.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.56%) LDAP
2 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.56%) REST
2 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.56%) Cyber Defence
1 19 (10.56%) Security Posture
2 18 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (8.89%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.22%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.22%) Cybercrime
7 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.22%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.67%) BYOD
8 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.56%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.56%) NHS
10 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.78%) Windows
2 6 (3.33%) Linux
3 5 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (68.89%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (36.67%) Incident Response
3 58 (32.22%) SIEM
4 53 (29.44%) Information Security
5 49 (27.22%) Security Operations
6 34 (18.89%) Risk Management
7 32 (17.78%) Penetration Testing
7 32 (17.78%) Vulnerability Management
8 30 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.44%) Agile
10 23 (12.78%) Threat Intelligence
11 21 (11.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 20 (11.11%) ITSM
12 20 (11.11%) Threat Detection
13 19 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 16 (8.89%) SOAR
16 15 (8.33%) Incident Management
16 15 (8.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.33%) Python
2 13 (7.22%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.67%) Bash
4 11 (6.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.89%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.56%) CISSP
4 18 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 17 (9.44%) Degree
6 15 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (7.22%) CEH
7 13 (7.22%) CISM
8 12 (6.67%) GIAC
9 9 (5.00%) DV Cleared
9 9 (5.00%) GCIH
10 7 (3.89%) GCIA
10 7 (3.89%) OSCP
11 6 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (3.33%) SANS
11 6 (3.33%) SSCP
12 5 (2.78%) CRISC
13 4 (2.22%) CCNA
13 4 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (2.22%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (24.44%) NIST
2 35 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (12.22%) GRC
4 19 (10.56%) GDPR
5 10 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 9 (5.00%) NCSC
6 9 (5.00%) NIST 800
7 6 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.67%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.67%) IASME
9 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.67%) SLA
10 2 (1.11%) PMO
11 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.22%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) Snort
2 4 (2.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.33%) Nessus
3 5 (2.78%) CSIRT
3 5 (2.78%) Nexpose
4 4 (2.22%) Suricata
5 2 (1.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (1.11%) SCCM
5 2 (1.11%) WSUS
6 1 (0.56%) Ansible
6 1 (0.56%) Nmap
6 1 (0.56%) QRadar
6 1 (0.56%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.22%) Splunk
3 21 (11.67%) CrowdStrike
4 14 (7.78%) Qualys
5 10 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 9 (5.00%) Google
7 7 (3.89%) F5
7 7 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.33%) Tenable
8 6 (3.33%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.78%) Cisco
9 5 (2.78%) Rapid7
10 4 (2.22%) Blue Coat
10 4 (2.22%) Carbon Black
10 4 (2.22%) FireEye
11 3 (1.67%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.67%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.67%) Darktrace
11 3 (1.67%) SAP
11 3 (1.67%) VMware
97 Security Analyst jobs in England