ECSA Contract Job Trends in London

EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ECSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 - 402
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ECSA 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.019% - 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £400
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £579 £550 £400
% change year-on-year +5.23% +37.50% -5.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

ECSA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,297 3,161 4,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.01% 25.64% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,119 2,859
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £767
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 64 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £19.05 £14.49
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £27.83 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.77% +11.30% -51.46%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.38 £68.60
England median hourly rate £51.22 £30.31 £41.27
% change year-on-year +69.02% -26.56% -24.97%

ECSA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ECSA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

ECSA job vacancy trend in London

ECSA
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ECSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ECSA

ECSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk