Security Analytics Contract Job Trends in England

Security Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Security Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 477 539
Rank change year-on-year -103 +62 +122
Contract jobs citing Security Analytics 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.020% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.022% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £534 -
25th Percentile £263 £547 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £396
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +48.36% -36.64%
75th Percentile £588 £622 -
90th Percentile £593 £631 -
UK median daily rate £488 £588 £396
% change year-on-year -17.02% +48.36% -36.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Security Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,330 22,247 32,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.17% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,953 14,553 21,080
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 913 2,254
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.67 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.97 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -2.53%

Security Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Security Analytics job vacancy trend in England

Security Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Analytics

Security Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Analytics in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Analytics in England

Security Analytics
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 Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North West - 2 £569 -
South East - 2 £275 - 1
North of England - 2 £569 -
London -67 1 £525 - 1
Security Analytics
UK

Security Analytics
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Akamai
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Bot Management
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Management
4 2 (40.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto