Security Analyst Contracts in London

Security Analyst
England > London

The median Security Analyst daily rate in London is £525, 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 294 316 357
Rank change year-on-year +22 +41 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 59 75 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.45% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 57 104
10th Percentile £287 £400 £361
25th Percentile £413 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £571
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -12.47% +14.25%
75th Percentile £625 £556 £678
90th Percentile £665 £675 £798
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - £39.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £40.50
75th Percentile £63.25 - £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.93 £11.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year +503.78% -82.82% -0.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Analyst in London

Security Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Analyst in London

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Analyst in London

Security Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Analyst in London

Security Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
South London - 6 £525 -
Central London -3 5 £475 -5.00% 8
North London - 2 £650 -
East London - 1 £600 -
Security Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1 46 (77.97%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (33.90%) Incident Response
3 19 (32.20%) Python
3 19 (32.20%) Microsoft
4 18 (30.51%) SIEM
4 18 (30.51%) Security Operations
5 14 (23.73%) Information Security
6 13 (22.03%) Azure
6 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
7 12 (20.34%) NIST
8 11 (18.64%) AWS
9 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
9 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
9 10 (16.95%) Firewall
9 10 (16.95%) CISSP
10 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (15.25%) Risk Management
10 9 (15.25%) Asset Management
10 9 (15.25%) Data Analysis
10 9 (15.25%) Power Platform
10 9 (15.25%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (15.25%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (15.25%) Power BI
10 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (15.25%) GCP
11 8 (13.56%) GDPR
11 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.56%) Security Posture
11 8 (13.56%) Network Security
11 8 (13.56%) Bash

Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) AWS
3 9 (15.25%) GCP
3 9 (15.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.69%) Akamai
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.69%) SaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Serverless
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) Firewall
2 8 (13.56%) Network Security
3 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (5.08%) DNS
5 3 (5.08%) HTTP
5 3 (5.08%) SMTP
6 2 (3.39%) VPN
7 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) Power BI
2 6 (10.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Local Government
7 2 (3.39%) Advertising
7 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Legal
7 2 (3.39%) Military
8 1 (1.69%) Front Office
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Law
8 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) OAuth
1 1 (1.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (13.56%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.08%) Cyber Security Posture
4 3 (5.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.39%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.39%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Windows
2 3 (5.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (77.97%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (33.90%) Incident Response
3 18 (30.51%) Security Operations
3 18 (30.51%) SIEM
4 14 (23.73%) Information Security
5 9 (15.25%) Asset Management
5 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (15.25%) Data Analysis
5 9 (15.25%) Risk Management
6 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.86%) Cloud Security
7 7 (11.86%) SOAR
8 6 (10.17%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.47%) Threat Detection
9 5 (8.47%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 4 (6.78%) Analytics
10 4 (6.78%) Data Loss Prevention
10 4 (6.78%) Forensic Analysis
10 4 (6.78%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (6.78%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) Python
2 8 (13.56%) Bash
2 8 (13.56%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) CISSP
1 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 7 (11.86%) CEH
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
4 6 (10.17%) CISM
5 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.78%) GCIH
7 3 (5.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (5.08%) CCNA
7 3 (5.08%) CCSP
7 3 (5.08%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (5.08%) GCIA
7 3 (5.08%) OSCP
8 2 (3.39%) CISA
8 2 (3.39%) CRISC
9 1 (1.69%) CBAP
9 1 (1.69%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) NIST
2 8 (13.56%) GDPR
3 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (10.17%) PCI DSS
5 5 (8.47%) GRC
5 5 (8.47%) HIPAA
6 3 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (5.08%) NIST 800
6 3 (5.08%) SOC 2
7 2 (3.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.69%) ISO 31000
8 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (1.69%) NCSC
8 1 (1.69%) QA
8 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) CSIRT
1 1 (1.69%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Splunk
3 3 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (5.08%) Google
3 3 (5.08%) Tenable
3 3 (5.08%) VMware
4 2 (3.39%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.69%) Intel
5 1 (1.69%) Qualys