Security Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Security Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Analyst daily rate in England is £498, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 349 298
Rank change year-on-year -14 -51 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 184 156 277
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.54% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.58% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 112 219
10th Percentile £354 £413 £400
25th Percentile £400 £472 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% - -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -5.24% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.00 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £18.93
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £44.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £18.93
% change year-on-year - - -69.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,510 26,921 34,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.92% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,200 16,785 23,966
10th Percentile £291 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
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 1,749 853 1,358
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +1 77 £500 -4.76% 10
South East -33 36 £488 -3.70% 27
North of England -38 21 £500 - 15
Midlands -29 16 £400 -23.81% 17
South West -1 13 £400 -46.67% 5
North West -14 12 £325 -35.00% 6
East Midlands - 11 £400 - 5
East of England -16 10 £513 -12.77% 20
Yorkshire - 8 £520 - 7
West Midlands -34 4 £588 +11.90% 12
North East -6 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 18 December 2025, 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.

1 110 (59.78%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (38.59%) Incident Response
3 60 (32.61%) SIEM
4 53 (28.80%) NIST
4 53 (28.80%) Security Operations
5 52 (28.26%) Microsoft
6 49 (26.63%) Information Security
7 48 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 44 (23.91%) Security Cleared
9 40 (21.74%) AWS
10 39 (21.20%) SC Cleared
11 35 (19.02%) Risk Management
12 33 (17.93%) CISSP
12 33 (17.93%) Splunk
13 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (16.30%) Vulnerability Management
15 28 (15.22%) Agile
16 26 (14.13%) Azure
17 25 (13.59%) Firewall
17 25 (13.59%) Threat Detection
18 21 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (11.41%) Penetration Testing
19 20 (10.87%) CrowdStrike
19 20 (10.87%) GDPR
20 19 (10.33%) CompTIA Security+
20 19 (10.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
20 19 (10.33%) GRC
20 19 (10.33%) Network Security
20 19 (10.33%) Threat Intelligence
21 17 (9.24%) Security Management

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 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.09%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.74%) AWS
2 26 (14.13%) Azure
3 14 (7.61%) GCP
4 10 (5.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.72%) Cloudflare
6 5 (2.72%) OpenDNS
7 4 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.17%) SaaS
8 3 (1.63%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.63%) OCI
9 2 (1.09%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.54%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.54%) GitHub
10 1 (0.54%) Serverless
10 1 (0.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.59%) Firewall
2 19 (10.33%) Network Security
3 6 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.72%) HTTP
5 4 (2.17%) Internet
5 4 (2.17%) NGFW
6 3 (1.63%) DNS
6 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.09%) SMTP
7 2 (1.09%) Wireless
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (2.17%) JIRA
2 2 (1.09%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.54%) Postman
3 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.15%) Finance
4 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.35%) Military
6 7 (3.80%) Banking
6 7 (3.80%) Legal
6 7 (3.80%) Retail
7 6 (3.26%) Law
8 4 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.09%) Local Government
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.09%) ISPF
1 2 (1.09%) OAuth
1 2 (1.09%) PyTorch
1 2 (1.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.54%) eBPF
2 1 (0.54%) LDAP
2 1 (0.54%) OpenID
2 1 (0.54%) REST
2 1 (0.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.41%) Cyber Defence
2 20 (10.87%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (8.15%) Onboarding
3 15 (8.15%) Security Posture
4 13 (7.07%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.07%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (2.72%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.72%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.17%) Cybercrime
7 3 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.63%) BYOD
7 3 (1.63%) CSOC
7 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.09%) NHS
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.26%) Windows
2 2 (1.09%) Linux
2 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.09%) zOS
3 1 (0.54%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (59.78%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (38.59%) Incident Response
3 60 (32.61%) SIEM
4 53 (28.80%) Security Operations
5 49 (26.63%) Information Security
6 35 (19.02%) Risk Management
7 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (16.30%) Vulnerability Management
9 28 (15.22%) Agile
10 25 (13.59%) Threat Detection
11 21 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (11.41%) Penetration Testing
12 19 (10.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 19 (10.33%) Threat Intelligence
13 17 (9.24%) Security Management
14 16 (8.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 16 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (8.15%) Risk Assessment
15 15 (8.15%) SOAR
15 15 (8.15%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.15%) Python
2 13 (7.07%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.43%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (4.89%) Bash
5 2 (1.09%) CLIST
5 2 (1.09%) JCL
5 2 (1.09%) REXX
6 1 (0.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.93%) CISSP
4 19 (10.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 16 (8.70%) CEH
5 16 (8.70%) CISM
5 16 (8.70%) CompTIA CySA+
5 16 (8.70%) Degree
6 14 (7.61%) GIAC
7 11 (5.98%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.35%) GCIH
9 7 (3.80%) GCIA
9 7 (3.80%) OSCP
10 6 (3.26%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.26%) SANS
11 5 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.72%) CRISC
11 5 (2.72%) SSCP
12 4 (2.17%) GREM
13 3 (1.63%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (28.80%) NIST
2 48 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (10.87%) GDPR
4 19 (10.33%) GRC
5 12 (6.52%) PCI DSS
6 11 (5.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (5.98%) NCSC
7 9 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (4.89%) NIST 800
8 7 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.63%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.63%) IASME
9 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (1.09%) PMO
11 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.54%) QA
11 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.72%) Docker
1 5 (2.72%) Snort
1 5 (2.72%) Squid
2 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) RACF
3 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.26%) Nessus
2 6 (3.26%) Nexpose
3 5 (2.72%) Suricata
4 3 (1.63%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.09%) zSecure
6 1 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.54%) Nmap
6 1 (0.54%) QRadar
6 1 (0.54%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 33 (17.93%) Splunk
3 20 (10.87%) CrowdStrike
4 13 (7.07%) Qualys
5 10 (5.43%) Google
5 10 (5.43%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.35%) Tenable
7 7 (3.80%) Cisco
7 7 (3.80%) F5
7 7 (3.80%) Zscaler
8 6 (3.26%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.72%) Blue Coat
9 5 (2.72%) Carbon Black
9 5 (2.72%) FireEye
9 5 (2.72%) Rapid7
10 4 (2.17%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.63%) Darktrace
12 2 (1.09%) IBM
12 2 (1.09%) LogRhythm
12 2 (1.09%) Oracle