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 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 372 377
Rank change year-on-year -61 +5 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 162 108 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.48% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 71 125
10th Percentile £332 £358 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £675
90th Percentile £622 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £20.31 £49.31 -
25th Percentile - £54.65 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £67.93 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.78% +503.78% -83.99%
75th Percentile £36.00 £76.83 -
90th Percentile - £79.54 -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £67.93 £12.50
% change year-on-year -58.78% +443.40% -82.21%

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 37,948 22,606 33,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.41% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,576 15,046 22,372
10th Percentile £318 £296 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,610 912 2,431
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.17 £36.58
% change year-on-year +51.55% -22.99% -18.72%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -55 64 £515 -1.90% 27
South East -48 37 £550 +4.76% 28
Midlands -59 16 £400 -23.81% 9
North of England -59 14 £410 -18.00% 22
South West -24 13 £525 +10.53% 15
East of England -19 10 £475 -20.83% 5
West Midlands -60 9 £288 -45.24% 4
Yorkshire -51 8 £469 - 10
East Midlands - 7 £463 - 5
North West -37 5 £438 -12.50% 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 17 May 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 77 (47.53%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (24.69%) NIST
3 38 (23.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (22.84%) Information Security
5 35 (21.60%) Incident Response
6 33 (20.37%) Security Operations
7 31 (19.14%) SIEM
8 30 (18.52%) Microsoft
9 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
10 26 (16.05%) Azure
11 23 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (13.58%) SC Cleared
13 20 (12.35%) CISSP
13 20 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
14 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (9.88%) Threat Detection
15 15 (9.26%) AWS
15 15 (9.26%) GRC
16 14 (8.64%) Cloud Security
17 13 (8.02%) Kubernetes
17 13 (8.02%) Process Improvement
17 13 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
18 12 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (7.41%) CI/CD
18 12 (7.41%) CISM
18 12 (7.41%) GAP Analysis
18 12 (7.41%) GDPR
18 12 (7.41%) Risk Management
18 12 (7.41%) Validation

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 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.05%) Azure
2 15 (9.26%) AWS
3 12 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (4.32%) SaaS
5 6 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.47%) GCP
7 4 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.23%) Serverless
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.62%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.62%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.62%) GitHub
10 1 (0.62%) OpenDNS
10 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.62%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.79%) Network Security
2 8 (4.94%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) DMZ
3 2 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
3 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) HTTP
4 1 (0.62%) Modbus
4 1 (0.62%) NAS
4 1 (0.62%) SAN
4 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.62%) VLAN
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.23%) Power BI
2 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.62%) Big Data
2 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.23%) JIRA
2 1 (0.62%) GitLab
2 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.20%) Finance
4 8 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.09%) Banking
6 5 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.47%) Marketing
8 3 (1.85%) Legal
8 3 (1.85%) Military
9 2 (1.23%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Local Government
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.85%) OAuth
1 3 (1.85%) SAML
2 2 (1.23%) ISPF
2 2 (1.23%) OpenID
2 2 (1.23%) REST
2 2 (1.23%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.62%) eBPF
3 1 (0.62%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) Operational Technology
1 15 (9.26%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.17%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (6.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.94%) SCADA
5 5 (3.09%) Robotics
6 4 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.85%) CSOC
8 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.62%) BYOD
9 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.47%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) zOS
3 1 (0.62%) Linux
3 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (47.53%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (22.84%) Information Security
3 35 (21.60%) Incident Response
4 33 (20.37%) Security Operations
5 31 (19.14%) SIEM
6 23 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (9.88%) Threat Detection
9 14 (8.64%) Cloud Security
10 13 (8.02%) Process Improvement
10 13 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (7.41%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.41%) GAP Analysis
11 12 (7.41%) Risk Management
11 12 (7.41%) Validation
12 11 (6.79%) Application Security
12 11 (6.79%) Containerisation
12 11 (6.79%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.94%) Kusto Query Language
1 8 (4.94%) Python
1 8 (4.94%) SQL
2 7 (4.32%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.23%) Bash
3 2 (1.23%) CLIST
3 2 (1.23%) JCL
3 2 (1.23%) REXX
Qualifications
1 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.35%) CISSP
4 12 (7.41%) CISM
5 11 (6.79%) CEH
5 11 (6.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (6.17%) DV Cleared
7 9 (5.56%) Degree
8 7 (4.32%) CISA
9 6 (3.70%) GIAC
10 4 (2.47%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.47%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.23%) CCNP
12 2 (1.23%) CRISC
12 2 (1.23%) IIBA
12 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.23%) SSCP
13 1 (0.62%) CBAP
13 1 (0.62%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (24.69%) NIST
2 38 (23.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (9.26%) GRC
4 12 (7.41%) GDPR
5 11 (6.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (6.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (4.94%) NCSC
7 7 (4.32%) NIST 800
8 6 (3.70%) IASME
8 6 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (2.47%) COBIT
9 4 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.85%) PCI DSS
11 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.62%) GxP
12 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.62%) PMO
12 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) RACF
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) Snort
3 1 (0.62%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.23%) Nessus
2 2 (1.23%) Nexpose
2 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.23%) zSecure
3 1 (0.62%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.62%) Puppet
3 1 (0.62%) Suricata
Vendors
1 30 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.17%) Splunk
3 7 (4.32%) Qualys
4 6 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.47%) Tenable
6 3 (1.85%) Cisco
6 3 (1.85%) Progress
7 2 (1.23%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.23%) IBM
7 2 (1.23%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.62%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.62%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.62%) Databricks
8 1 (0.62%) Exabeam
8 1 (0.62%) FireEye
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle
8 1 (0.62%) Tanium
8 1 (0.62%) Zscaler