Security Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Security Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Analyst daily rate in England is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 371 374
Rank change year-on-year -55 +3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 169 110 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.46% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.50% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 71 124
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £675
90th Percentile £631 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £19.89 £49.31 -
25th Percentile £26.08 £54.65 -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £67.93 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.89% +503.78% -83.99%
75th Percentile £49.06 £76.83 -
90th Percentile £55.63 £79.54 -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £67.93 £12.50
% change year-on-year -52.89% +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 38,335 21,999 33,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.32% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,771 14,636 22,380
10th Percentile £320 £290 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 881 2,449
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.31% -23.38% -18.89%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -62 64 £550 +4.76% 29
South East -52 42 £550 +4.76% 35
South West -22 16 £525 +10.53% 13
Midlands -67 16 £400 -21.95% 12
North of England -65 15 £405 -19.00% 28
West Midlands -63 9 £288 -45.24% 7
Yorkshire -54 8 £469 - 14
East of England -26 7 £475 -20.83% 4
East Midlands -26 7 £463 +32.14% 5
North West -37 6 £410 -18.00% 13
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 23 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 89 (52.66%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (27.22%) NIST
3 43 (25.44%) SIEM
4 40 (23.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (23.67%) Security Cleared
5 36 (21.30%) Incident Response
6 34 (20.12%) Security Operations
7 32 (18.93%) Information Security
8 30 (17.75%) Azure
8 30 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (17.75%) Microsoft
9 27 (15.98%) SC Cleared
10 24 (14.20%) Vulnerability Management
11 20 (11.83%) CISSP
12 18 (10.65%) Threat Detection
13 17 (10.06%) AWS
13 17 (10.06%) Cloud Security
13 17 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (9.47%) GAP Analysis
14 16 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (8.28%) Application Security
15 14 (8.28%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (8.28%) DV Cleared
15 14 (8.28%) Risk Management
16 13 (7.69%) GRC
16 13 (7.69%) Kubernetes
16 13 (7.69%) Process Improvement
16 13 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 13 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
17 12 (7.10%) Analytics

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 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.75%) Azure
2 17 (10.06%) AWS
3 14 (8.28%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (4.14%) SaaS
5 6 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (3.55%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.55%) GCP
6 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.18%) Serverless
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.59%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.59%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.59%) GitHub
9 1 (0.59%) OpenDNS
9 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.59%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.10%) Network Security
2 8 (4.73%) Firewall
3 3 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.18%) DMZ
4 2 (1.18%) VPN
5 1 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.59%) DNS
5 1 (0.59%) HTTP
5 1 (0.59%) Modbus
5 1 (0.59%) NAS
5 1 (0.59%) SAN
5 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
5 1 (0.59%) WAN
5 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.18%) 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 2 (1.18%) JIRA
2 1 (0.59%) GitLab
2 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.20%) Finance
4 9 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.55%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.96%) Banking
8 4 (2.37%) Marketing
8 4 (2.37%) Military
9 3 (1.78%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Local Government
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.78%) OAuth
1 3 (1.78%) SAML
2 2 (1.18%) OpenID
2 2 (1.18%) REST
2 2 (1.18%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.59%) eBPF
3 1 (0.59%) ISPF
3 1 (0.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.83%) Operational Technology
2 15 (8.88%) Security Posture
3 11 (6.51%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (5.33%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.73%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.73%) SCADA
6 8 (4.73%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.96%) Robotics
8 4 (2.37%) CSOC
8 4 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.59%) BYOD
11 1 (0.59%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (52.66%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (25.44%) SIEM
3 36 (21.30%) Incident Response
4 34 (20.12%) Security Operations
5 32 (18.93%) Information Security
6 30 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (14.20%) Vulnerability Management
8 18 (10.65%) Threat Detection
9 17 (10.06%) Cloud Security
9 17 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (9.47%) GAP Analysis
10 16 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.28%) Application Security
11 14 (8.28%) Risk Management
12 13 (7.69%) Process Improvement
12 13 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (7.10%) Analytics
13 12 (7.10%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.10%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.33%) Python
2 8 (4.73%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (4.73%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.73%) SQL
3 2 (1.18%) Bash
4 1 (0.59%) CLIST
4 1 (0.59%) JCL
4 1 (0.59%) REXX
Qualifications
1 40 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.83%) CISSP
4 14 (8.28%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.10%) Degree
6 11 (6.51%) CISM
6 11 (6.51%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (5.92%) CEH
8 7 (4.14%) GIAC
9 6 (3.55%) CISA
10 4 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.37%) SANS
11 3 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.78%) SSCP
12 2 (1.18%) CCNP
12 2 (1.18%) GCIA
12 2 (1.18%) GCIH
12 2 (1.18%) IIBA
12 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (27.22%) NIST
2 40 (23.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (7.69%) GRC
4 9 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (5.33%) GDPR
5 8 (4.73%) NIST 800
6 7 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (4.14%) NCSC
7 6 (3.55%) IASME
7 6 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (2.37%) COBIT
9 3 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.78%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.18%) SLA
10 2 (1.18%) SOC 1
10 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.59%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) RACF
3 1 (0.59%) Snort
3 1 (0.59%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.78%) Nexpose
3 2 (1.18%) Nessus
3 2 (1.18%) Puppet
3 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.59%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.59%) Suricata
4 1 (0.59%) zSecure
Vendors
1 30 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.92%) Splunk
3 8 (4.73%) Qualys
4 6 (3.55%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.37%) Progress
6 4 (2.37%) Tenable
7 3 (1.78%) ArcSight
7 3 (1.78%) Cisco
8 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.18%) Google
8 2 (1.18%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.59%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.59%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.59%) Databricks
9 1 (0.59%) Exabeam
9 1 (0.59%) Tanium
9 1 (0.59%) Tripwire
9 1 (0.59%) Zscaler