Security Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Security Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Analyst daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 374 383
Rank change year-on-year -61 +9 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 160 118 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 73 116
10th Percentile £350 £350 £359
25th Percentile £428 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £675
90th Percentile £613 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.46 £49.31 -
25th Percentile £20.31 £54.65 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.93 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +503.78% -85.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £76.83 -
90th Percentile £61.25 £79.54 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.93 £12.50
% change year-on-year -30.07% +443.40% -83.33%

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 38,608 22,392 34,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.37% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,868 14,803 22,535
10th Percentile £322 £290 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,710 937 2,560
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.80 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -20.80% -16.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £79.55 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 63 £550 +4.76% 35
South East -49 38 £550 +4.76% 42
Midlands -54 17 £438 -2.78% 23
South West -17 16 £525 +10.53% 19
North of England -63 15 £405 -19.00% 41
West Midlands -52 10 £400 -23.81% 12
Yorkshire -52 8 £469 - 19
East Midlands -31 7 £463 +32.14% 11
North West -42 6 £410 -18.00% 20
East of England -30 4 £475 -20.83% 11
North East - 1 £400 - 2
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 87 (54.38%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (27.50%) NIST
3 41 (25.63%) SIEM
4 38 (23.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (23.13%) Security Cleared
6 34 (21.25%) Security Operations
7 32 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 31 (19.38%) Information Security
9 29 (18.13%) Azure
9 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (16.88%) Microsoft
11 24 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (13.75%) SC Cleared
13 19 (11.88%) CISSP
14 17 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (10.00%) Cloud Security
16 15 (9.38%) DV Cleared
16 15 (9.38%) GAP Analysis
16 15 (9.38%) Threat Detection
17 14 (8.75%) Application Security
17 14 (8.75%) AWS
17 14 (8.75%) Risk Management
18 13 (8.13%) Azure Sentinel
18 13 (8.13%) GRC
18 13 (8.13%) Process Improvement
18 13 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
18 13 (8.13%) Workshop Facilitation
19 12 (7.50%) Analytics
19 12 (7.50%) CI/CD
19 12 (7.50%) Degree

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 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.13%) Azure
2 14 (8.75%) AWS
3 13 (8.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (4.38%) SaaS
6 6 (3.75%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.50%) GCP
8 3 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.88%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.25%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.25%) Serverless
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.63%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.63%) GitHub
10 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.63%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.63%) Network Security
2 6 (3.75%) Firewall
3 4 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.25%) DMZ
5 1 (0.63%) HTTP
5 1 (0.63%) Modbus
5 1 (0.63%) NAS
5 1 (0.63%) SAN
5 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.63%) VLAN
5 1 (0.63%) VoIP
5 1 (0.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.88%) Power BI
2 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.63%) Big Data
2 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) GitLab
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (15.00%) Finance
4 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Banking
8 3 (1.88%) Legal
8 3 (1.88%) Marketing
8 3 (1.88%) Military
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Local Government
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.25%) OAuth
1 2 (1.25%) OpenID
1 2 (1.25%) REST
1 2 (1.25%) SailPoint
1 2 (1.25%) SAML
2 1 (0.63%) eBPF
2 1 (0.63%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.88%) Operational Technology
2 14 (8.75%) Security Posture
3 10 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.00%) SCADA
5 8 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (4.38%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.50%) CSOC
7 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Robotics
8 3 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.63%) BYOD
10 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (54.38%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (25.63%) SIEM
3 34 (21.25%) Security Operations
4 32 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 31 (19.38%) Information Security
6 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 17 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (10.00%) Cloud Security
10 15 (9.38%) GAP Analysis
10 15 (9.38%) Threat Detection
11 14 (8.75%) Application Security
11 14 (8.75%) Risk Management
12 13 (8.13%) Process Improvement
12 13 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (8.13%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (7.50%) Analytics
13 12 (7.50%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.50%) Incident Management
13 12 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 8 (5.00%) SQL
2 6 (3.75%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.75%) Python
3 1 (0.63%) CLIST
3 1 (0.63%) JCL
3 1 (0.63%) REXX
Qualifications
1 37 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.88%) CISSP
4 15 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.50%) Degree
6 10 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (5.63%) CISM
8 8 (5.00%) CEH
9 6 (3.75%) CISA
9 6 (3.75%) GIAC
10 5 (3.13%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.50%) SANS
12 3 (1.88%) SSCP
13 2 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.25%) GCIA
13 2 (1.25%) GCIH
13 2 (1.25%) IIBA
13 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.63%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (27.50%) NIST
2 38 (23.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.13%) GRC
4 9 (5.63%) GDPR
5 8 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (5.00%) NIST 800
6 6 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (3.75%) IASME
6 6 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (3.75%) NCSC
7 4 (2.50%) COBIT
8 3 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.88%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.25%) SLA
9 2 (1.25%) SOC 1
9 2 (1.25%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.63%) GxP
10 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.25%) Nexpose
2 2 (1.25%) Puppet
2 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.63%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.63%) Nessus
3 1 (0.63%) zSecure
Vendors
1 27 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.38%) Qualys
3 6 (3.75%) Splunk
4 5 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.50%) Progress
5 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.88%) ArcSight
6 3 (1.88%) Tenable
7 2 (1.25%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.63%) Databricks
8 1 (0.63%) Exabeam
8 1 (0.63%) Google
8 1 (0.63%) IBM
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.63%) Tanium
8 1 (0.63%) Tripwire