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 9 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 337 338
Rank change year-on-year -38 +1 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 180 144 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.59% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 96 170
10th Percentile £313 £413 £400
25th Percentile £400 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £624 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.24% -0.24%
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% -82.82%
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% -81.87%

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 30,503 24,211 35,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.07% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,396 14,990 23,931
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 719 2,136
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.91 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.36 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.61 £60.61
90th Percentile £72.45 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -34 77 £525 - 15
South East -47 26 £463 -9.76% 16
South West -1 21 £525 - 6
Midlands -32 20 £400 -21.95% 15
North of England -48 13 £475 -7.32% 8
East Midlands - 13 £400 - 4
East of England -14 11 £513 -14.58% 6
North West -22 6 £297 -43.52% 4
West Midlands -47 6 £363 -29.27% 11
Yorkshire - 6 £520 - 2
North East -14 1 £400 +14.29% 2
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 88 (48.89%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (32.22%) Incident Response
3 57 (31.67%) SIEM
4 46 (25.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (23.33%) Information Security
5 42 (23.33%) Security Cleared
5 42 (23.33%) Security Operations
6 41 (22.78%) Microsoft
7 39 (21.67%) AWS
8 38 (21.11%) NIST
9 37 (20.56%) SC Cleared
10 33 (18.33%) CISSP
11 29 (16.11%) Splunk
12 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (13.89%) Agile
13 25 (13.89%) Risk Management
14 24 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (12.78%) Threat Detection
16 22 (12.22%) Azure
17 20 (11.11%) GRC
18 19 (10.56%) Security Management
19 18 (10.00%) CISM
19 18 (10.00%) GDPR
19 18 (10.00%) Network Security
20 17 (9.44%) CompTIA Security+
20 17 (9.44%) Degree
20 17 (9.44%) Firewall
21 16 (8.89%) CEH
21 16 (8.89%) 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 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.67%) AWS
2 22 (12.22%) Azure
3 12 (6.67%) GCP
4 8 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.22%) Cloudflare
8 4 (2.22%) OpenDNS
9 3 (1.67%) OCI
9 3 (1.67%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.67%) SaaS
10 2 (1.11%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.56%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.00%) Network Security
2 17 (9.44%) Firewall
3 5 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.22%) HTTP
5 3 (1.67%) Internet
6 2 (1.11%) DMZ
6 2 (1.11%) DNS
6 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.56%) SMTP
7 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.67%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 53 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.78%) Finance
4 12 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.44%) Military
6 6 (3.33%) Banking
6 6 (3.33%) Legal
6 6 (3.33%) Retail
7 5 (2.78%) Law
8 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.22%) Marketing
9 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.11%) ISPF
1 2 (1.11%) OAuth
1 2 (1.11%) SailPoint
1 2 (1.11%) SAML
2 1 (0.56%) eBPF
2 1 (0.56%) LDAP
2 1 (0.56%) OpenID
2 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
2 19 (10.56%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 13 (7.22%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 11 (6.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (3.89%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.78%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.22%) Cybercrime
9 4 (2.22%) Robotics
10 3 (1.67%) BYOD
10 3 (1.67%) CSOC
10 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.11%) NHS
12 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Windows
2 2 (1.11%) Linux
2 2 (1.11%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.11%) zOS
3 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (48.89%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (32.22%) Incident Response
3 57 (31.67%) SIEM
4 42 (23.33%) Information Security
4 42 (23.33%) Security Operations
5 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (13.89%) Agile
6 25 (13.89%) Risk Management
7 24 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 23 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (12.78%) Threat Detection
9 19 (10.56%) Security Management
10 16 (8.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 16 (8.89%) Threat Intelligence
11 14 (7.78%) Coaching
11 14 (7.78%) Mentoring
11 14 (7.78%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 13 (7.22%) Change Management
12 13 (7.22%) Line Management
12 13 (7.22%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (5.00%) Python
2 6 (3.33%) Bash
2 6 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (2.78%) SQL
4 2 (1.11%) CLIST
4 2 (1.11%) JCL
4 2 (1.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 42 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (18.33%) CISSP
4 18 (10.00%) CISM
5 17 (9.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 17 (9.44%) Degree
6 16 (8.89%) CEH
7 14 (7.78%) CompTIA CySA+
7 14 (7.78%) GIAC
8 11 (6.11%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.89%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.33%) CISA
10 6 (3.33%) GCIA
10 6 (3.33%) GCIH
10 6 (3.33%) OSCP
10 6 (3.33%) SANS
11 5 (2.78%) CRISC
11 5 (2.78%) SSCP
12 4 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (2.22%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (25.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (21.11%) NIST
3 20 (11.11%) GRC
4 18 (10.00%) GDPR
5 10 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 9 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (5.00%) NCSC
7 7 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (3.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (3.33%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.67%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.11%) IASME
10 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.56%) PMO
11 1 (0.56%) QA
11 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.22%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) Snort
2 4 (2.22%) Squid
3 2 (1.11%) RACF
3 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.78%) Nessus
1 5 (2.78%) Nexpose
2 4 (2.22%) Suricata
3 2 (1.11%) CSIRT
3 2 (1.11%) zSecure
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.56%) Nmap
4 1 (0.56%) QRadar
4 1 (0.56%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.11%) Splunk
3 13 (7.22%) Qualys
4 8 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (4.44%) Tenable
5 7 (3.89%) Google
5 7 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.78%) Cisco
6 5 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.78%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.78%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.22%) Blue Coat
7 4 (2.22%) Carbon Black
7 4 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.22%) FireEye
8 3 (1.67%) Progress
9 2 (1.11%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.11%) IBM
9 2 (1.11%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.56%) Exabeam
56 Security Analyst jobs in England