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 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 345 356
Rank change year-on-year -51 +11 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 183 138 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.57% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 93 159
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £405 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile - £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £54.50 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year -48.62% +384.44% -83.84%
75th Percentile £36.00 £63.25 £15.09
90th Percentile - - £17.39
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £54.50 £11.88
% change year-on-year -48.62% +358.95% -82.95%

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 31,997 24,126 35,091
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.97% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,271 15,171 23,505
10th Percentile £305 £300 £272
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 722 2,146
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.01 £13.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.09 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £31.36 £33.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.70% -5.00% -10.26%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -39 78 £525 - 18
South East -53 25 £450 -14.29% 17
South West +4 22 £525 - 2
Midlands -40 19 £400 -21.95% 12
North of England -55 16 £470 -8.29% 4
East Midlands - 12 £400 - 4
East of England -20 11 £513 -14.58% 8
North West -24 8 £325 -38.10% 3
West Midlands -46 7 £363 -29.27% 8
Yorkshire - 7 £520 - 1
North East -15 1 £400 +14.29%
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 February 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 89 (48.63%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (31.15%) Incident Response
3 55 (30.05%) SIEM
4 45 (24.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (23.50%) Information Security
5 43 (23.50%) Security Cleared
6 41 (22.40%) Microsoft
7 40 (21.86%) AWS
7 40 (21.86%) Security Operations
8 39 (21.31%) NIST
8 39 (21.31%) SC Cleared
9 34 (18.58%) CISSP
10 29 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (15.30%) Splunk
12 27 (14.75%) Agile
13 26 (14.21%) Risk Management
14 25 (13.66%) Vulnerability Management
15 24 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (12.02%) Threat Detection
17 21 (11.48%) Azure
18 20 (10.93%) GRC
19 19 (10.38%) CISM
19 19 (10.38%) Security Management
20 18 (9.84%) Degree
20 18 (9.84%) Network Security
21 17 (9.29%) CompTIA Security+
21 17 (9.29%) Firewall
21 17 (9.29%) GDPR
22 16 (8.74%) CEH
23 15 (8.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence

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:

Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.86%) AWS
2 21 (11.48%) Azure
3 11 (6.01%) GCP
4 7 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (3.28%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.19%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.64%) Cloudflare
7 3 (1.64%) OCI
7 3 (1.64%) OpenDNS
7 3 (1.64%) SaaS
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.09%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.09%) Serverless
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.55%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.84%) Network Security
2 17 (9.29%) Firewall
3 5 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.19%) HTTP
5 2 (1.09%) DMZ
5 2 (1.09%) DNS
5 2 (1.09%) Internet
5 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) VPN
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.55%) NAS
6 1 (0.55%) SAN
6 1 (0.55%) SMTP
6 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.19%) Power BI
2 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 56 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.75%) Finance
4 13 (7.10%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.37%) Military
6 6 (3.28%) Banking
6 6 (3.28%) Retail
7 4 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.19%) Law
7 4 (2.19%) Legal
7 4 (2.19%) Marketing
8 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Local Government
9 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.64%) OAuth
1 3 (1.64%) SAML
2 2 (1.09%) ISPF
2 2 (1.09%) OpenID
2 2 (1.09%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.55%) eBPF
3 1 (0.55%) LDAP
3 1 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.93%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (9.29%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (8.20%) Security Posture
4 13 (7.10%) Onboarding
5 12 (6.56%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.46%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (4.92%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.73%) Robotics
8 5 (2.73%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.64%) BYOD
9 3 (1.64%) Cybercrime
9 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) CSOC
10 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.55%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.73%) Windows
2 3 (1.64%) Linux
3 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.09%) zOS
4 1 (0.55%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (48.63%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (31.15%) Incident Response
3 55 (30.05%) SIEM
4 43 (23.50%) Information Security
5 40 (21.86%) Security Operations
6 29 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.75%) Agile
8 26 (14.21%) Risk Management
9 25 (13.66%) Vulnerability Management
10 24 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (12.02%) Threat Detection
12 19 (10.38%) Security Management
13 15 (8.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 15 (8.20%) Threat Intelligence
14 14 (7.65%) Coaching
14 14 (7.65%) Mentoring
14 14 (7.65%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 13 (7.10%) Change Management
15 13 (7.10%) Line Management
15 13 (7.10%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
1 8 (4.37%) Python
2 6 (3.28%) SQL
3 5 (2.73%) Bash
3 5 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.09%) CLIST
4 2 (1.09%) JCL
4 2 (1.09%) REXX
Qualifications
1 43 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 34 (18.58%) CISSP
4 19 (10.38%) CISM
5 18 (9.84%) Degree
6 17 (9.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 16 (8.74%) CEH
8 14 (7.65%) GIAC
9 13 (7.10%) CompTIA CySA+
10 10 (5.46%) DV Cleared
11 7 (3.83%) CISA
11 7 (3.83%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (3.28%) GCIA
12 6 (3.28%) GCIH
12 6 (3.28%) SANS
13 5 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (2.73%) CRISC
13 5 (2.73%) OSCP
14 4 (2.19%) Master's Degree
14 4 (2.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (24.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (21.31%) NIST
3 20 (10.93%) GRC
4 17 (9.29%) GDPR
5 10 (5.46%) PCI DSS
6 9 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (4.37%) NCSC
8 7 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (3.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (3.28%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.64%) HIPAA
11 2 (1.09%) IASME
11 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (1.09%) PMO
12 1 (0.55%) GxP
12 1 (0.55%) ISA99
12 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.55%) QA
12 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.64%) Snort
2 3 (1.64%) Squid
3 2 (1.09%) RACF
3 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.19%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.19%) Nessus
1 4 (2.19%) Nexpose
2 3 (1.64%) Suricata
3 2 (1.09%) CSIRT
3 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.09%) zSecure
4 1 (0.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.55%) Nmap
4 1 (0.55%) QRadar
4 1 (0.55%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.30%) Splunk
3 12 (6.56%) Qualys
4 8 (4.37%) Tenable
5 7 (3.83%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.28%) Google
7 5 (2.73%) Cisco
7 5 (2.73%) Rapid7
8 4 (2.19%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.19%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.19%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.64%) Blue Coat
9 3 (1.64%) Carbon Black
9 3 (1.64%) FireEye
9 3 (1.64%) Progress
10 2 (1.09%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.09%) IBM
10 2 (1.09%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.55%) Exabeam