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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 363 388
Rank change year-on-year -69 +25 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 178 121 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 74 116
10th Percentile £373 £325 £359
25th Percentile £434 £380 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £675
90th Percentile £627 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
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 £30.63
90th Percentile £61.25 £79.54 £42.25
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 39,453 22,713 34,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.34% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,315 14,934 22,760
10th Percentile £325 £294 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,782 1,000 2,654
10th Percentile £15.89 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +54.10% -26.13% -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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -48 71 £550 +4.76% 23
South East -47 40 £550 +4.76% 28
North of England -43 19 £450 +100.00% 22
South West -11 18 £525 +31.25% 9
Midlands -59 17 £438 +9.38% 14
West Midlands -46 11 £475 -21.81% 5
North West -27 10 £450 +100.00% 15
Yorkshire -45 9 £469 - 5
East Midlands -28 6 £400 +14.29% 9
East of England -27 2 - - 4
Security Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 102 (57.30%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (25.84%) Security Cleared
3 44 (24.72%) NIST
3 44 (24.72%) SIEM
4 40 (22.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (22.47%) Security Operations
5 37 (20.79%) Information Security
6 33 (18.54%) Incident Response
7 30 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.29%) Azure
9 26 (14.61%) Microsoft
10 25 (14.04%) SC Cleared
10 25 (14.04%) Vulnerability Management
11 24 (13.48%) DV Cleared
12 22 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (10.67%) CISSP
13 19 (10.67%) Risk Management
14 16 (8.99%) Application Security
14 16 (8.99%) Cloud Security
14 16 (8.99%) GRC
14 16 (8.99%) Threat Detection
15 15 (8.43%) GAP Analysis
15 15 (8.43%) Process Improvement
16 14 (7.87%) AWS
16 14 (7.87%) Azure Sentinel
16 14 (7.87%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (7.87%) Security Monitoring
16 14 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
17 13 (7.30%) Incident 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 2 (1.12%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.29%) Azure
2 14 (7.87%) AWS
2 14 (7.87%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (4.49%) SaaS
4 6 (3.37%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (1.69%) GCP
5 3 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.12%) GitHub
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.56%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) Network Security
2 6 (3.37%) Firewall
3 5 (2.81%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.12%) DMZ
5 1 (0.56%) HTTP
5 1 (0.56%) Modbus
5 1 (0.56%) NAS
5 1 (0.56%) SAN
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.56%) VLAN
5 1 (0.56%) VoIP
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.69%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.56%) Big Data
2 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.12%) GitLab
1 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.12%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.56%) Snyk
2 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.61%) Finance
4 9 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.25%) Banking
8 3 (1.69%) Legal
8 3 (1.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.12%) OAuth
1 2 (1.12%) OpenID
1 2 (1.12%) SailPoint
1 2 (1.12%) SAML
2 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Operational Technology
2 13 (7.30%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.30%) Security Posture
3 12 (6.74%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (5.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.62%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.06%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (4.49%) SCADA
7 4 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.25%) Robotics
8 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) CSOC
9 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.56%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Windows
2 5 (2.81%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (57.30%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (24.72%) SIEM
3 40 (22.47%) Security Operations
4 37 (20.79%) Information Security
5 33 (18.54%) Incident Response
6 30 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (14.04%) Vulnerability Management
8 22 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (10.67%) Risk Management
10 16 (8.99%) Application Security
10 16 (8.99%) Cloud Security
10 16 (8.99%) Threat Detection
11 15 (8.43%) GAP Analysis
11 15 (8.43%) Process Improvement
12 14 (7.87%) Security Monitoring
12 14 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
13 13 (7.30%) Incident Management
14 12 (6.74%) Business Analysis
14 12 (6.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.49%) SQL
2 7 (3.93%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (3.93%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.93%) Python
3 3 (1.69%) Bash
4 2 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.48%) DV Cleared
4 19 (10.67%) CISSP
5 14 (7.87%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (6.74%) Degree
7 9 (5.06%) CISM
7 9 (5.06%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (4.49%) CEH
9 7 (3.93%) GIAC
10 6 (3.37%) CISA
11 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.81%) SANS
12 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.69%) MCSE
13 3 (1.69%) SSCP
14 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 2 (1.12%) GCIA
14 2 (1.12%) GCIH
14 2 (1.12%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (24.72%) NIST
2 40 (22.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.99%) GRC
4 9 (5.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (4.49%) GDPR
5 8 (4.49%) NIST 800
6 6 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (3.37%) IASME
6 6 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (3.37%) NCSC
7 4 (2.25%) COBIT
8 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.12%) SLA
9 2 (1.12%) SOC 1
9 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.56%) GxP
10 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.12%) Nexpose
3 2 (1.12%) Puppet
4 1 (0.56%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) QRadar
4 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.81%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (2.81%) Qualys
2 5 (2.81%) ServiceNow
2 5 (2.81%) Splunk
3 4 (2.25%) Progress
4 3 (1.69%) ArcSight
4 3 (1.69%) Tenable
5 2 (1.12%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.12%) OneTrust
5 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.12%) Tanium
5 2 (1.12%) Tripwire
6 1 (0.56%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.56%) Cisco
6 1 (0.56%) Clearswift
6 1 (0.56%) Google
6 1 (0.56%) NEC
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle
6 1 (0.56%) Veracode