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 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 341 298
Rank change year-on-year -29 -43 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 174 154 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.56% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.61% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 107 217
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £400 £469 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £569 £599 £619
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile - - £12.02
25th Percentile £28.00 - £13.17
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £15.09
75th Percentile - - £17.01
90th Percentile £44.80 - £18.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £15.09
% change year-on-year - - -75.86%

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 28,953 25,391 33,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.84% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,523 15,730 22,908
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 1,747 792 1,477
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.15 £74.99 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.78 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.60% -26.97% +36.75%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -21 73 £500 -4.76% 9
South East -38 34 £488 -4.88% 12
North of England -40 18 £500 - 5
Midlands -31 15 £400 -23.81% 13
South West +2 12 £459 -35.54% 3
North West -22 11 £325 -35.00% 3
East of England -17 10 £513 -14.58% 10
East Midlands - 10 £400 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £520 - 2
West Midlands -38 4 £588 +11.90% 11
North East -12 1 £400 +14.29%
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 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.

1 102 (58.62%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (37.93%) Incident Response
3 57 (32.76%) SIEM
4 50 (28.74%) Security Operations
5 49 (28.16%) NIST
6 48 (27.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 47 (27.01%) Information Security
8 45 (25.86%) Microsoft
9 44 (25.29%) Security Cleared
10 39 (22.41%) SC Cleared
11 38 (21.84%) AWS
12 34 (19.54%) CISSP
13 32 (18.39%) Risk Management
14 30 (17.24%) Splunk
15 28 (16.09%) Vulnerability Management
16 27 (15.52%) Agile
16 27 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (13.79%) Threat Detection
18 21 (12.07%) Azure
18 21 (12.07%) Firewall
19 20 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 20 (11.49%) GRC
19 20 (11.49%) Network Security
20 18 (10.34%) CompTIA Security+
21 17 (9.77%) CEH
21 17 (9.77%) CISM
21 17 (9.77%) GDPR
21 17 (9.77%) Penetration Testing
21 17 (9.77%) Security Management
22 16 (9.20%) CompTIA CySA+

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 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.84%) AWS
2 21 (12.07%) Azure
3 12 (6.90%) GCP
4 8 (4.60%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.30%) Cloudflare
7 4 (2.30%) OpenDNS
8 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.72%) OCI
8 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.15%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.15%) SaaS
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.57%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.07%) Firewall
2 20 (11.49%) Network Security
3 5 (2.87%) HTTP
3 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.30%) Internet
5 3 (1.72%) DNS
5 3 (1.72%) NGFW
5 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.15%) DMZ
6 2 (1.15%) SMTP
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.57%) VPN
7 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.72%) Power BI
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.05%) Finance
3 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.60%) Military
5 7 (4.02%) Legal
5 7 (4.02%) Retail
6 6 (3.45%) Banking
6 6 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.15%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.15%) ISPF
1 2 (1.15%) OAuth
2 1 (0.57%) eBPF
2 1 (0.57%) LDAP
2 1 (0.57%) OpenID
2 1 (0.57%) REST
2 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (9.77%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (8.05%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.05%) Security Posture
4 13 (7.47%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.47%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.02%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.30%) Cybercrime
8 3 (1.72%) BYOD
8 3 (1.72%) CSOC
8 3 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Robotics
9 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.15%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.15%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.45%) Windows
2 2 (1.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.15%) zOS
3 1 (0.57%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (58.62%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (37.93%) Incident Response
3 57 (32.76%) SIEM
4 50 (28.74%) Security Operations
5 47 (27.01%) Information Security
6 32 (18.39%) Risk Management
7 28 (16.09%) Vulnerability Management
8 27 (15.52%) Agile
8 27 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (13.79%) Threat Detection
10 20 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.77%) Penetration Testing
11 17 (9.77%) Security Management
12 16 (9.20%) Risk Assessment
12 16 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (8.62%) Coaching
13 15 (8.62%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (8.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 14 (8.05%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.75%) PowerShell
1 10 (5.75%) Python
2 8 (4.60%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (4.02%) Bash
4 2 (1.15%) CLIST
4 2 (1.15%) JCL
4 2 (1.15%) REXX
Qualifications
1 44 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 34 (19.54%) CISSP
4 18 (10.34%) CompTIA Security+
5 17 (9.77%) CEH
5 17 (9.77%) CISM
6 16 (9.20%) CompTIA CySA+
6 16 (9.20%) Degree
7 14 (8.05%) GIAC
8 11 (6.32%) DV Cleared
9 7 (4.02%) GCIH
9 7 (4.02%) OSCP
10 6 (3.45%) GCIA
10 6 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.45%) SANS
11 5 (2.87%) CISA
11 5 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.87%) CRISC
12 4 (2.30%) GREM
12 4 (2.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (28.16%) NIST
2 48 (27.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (11.49%) GRC
4 17 (9.77%) GDPR
5 11 (6.32%) NCSC
5 11 (6.32%) PCI DSS
6 10 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (4.02%) NIST 800
8 7 (4.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.72%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.72%) IASME
9 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (1.15%) PMO
11 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.57%) QA
11 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.30%) Docker
1 4 (2.30%) Snort
1 4 (2.30%) Squid
2 2 (1.15%) RACF
2 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.87%) Nessus
2 5 (2.87%) Nexpose
3 4 (2.30%) Suricata
4 3 (1.72%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.15%) zSecure
6 1 (0.57%) Ansible
6 1 (0.57%) Nmap
6 1 (0.57%) QRadar
6 1 (0.57%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.24%) Splunk
3 16 (9.20%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (6.32%) Qualys
5 8 (4.60%) Google
5 8 (4.60%) Palo Alto
5 8 (4.60%) Tenable
6 6 (3.45%) Zscaler
7 5 (2.87%) Cisco
7 5 (2.87%) F5
7 5 (2.87%) Rapid7
8 4 (2.30%) Blue Coat
8 4 (2.30%) Carbon Black
8 4 (2.30%) FireEye
8 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.72%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.72%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.15%) IBM
10 2 (1.15%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle