Senior Security Analyst Contracts in England

Senior Security Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Security Analyst daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 531 642
Rank change year-on-year +54 +111 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Analyst 8 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.030% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.032% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile £479 £488 £456
25th Percentile £568 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £659
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -20.33% +25.52%
75th Percentile £722 £540 £759
90th Percentile £725 £700 £778
UK median daily rate £675 £523 £540
% change year-on-year +29.19% -3.24% +2.86%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Security Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Analyst in England

Senior Security Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Analyst in England

Senior Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Analyst in England

Senior Security Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Analyst in England

Senior 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 Senior Security Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +36 4 £700 +33.33% 22
South East +46 3 £675 +25.00% 25
Senior Security Analyst
UK

Senior Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Security Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Security Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (25.00%) GRC
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Nessus
4 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (12.50%) CEH
4 1 (12.50%) Nmap
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Wireshark

Senior Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (12.50%) Journey Map
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Register
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Intel