Security Analyst Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Security Analyst
South East > Surrey

The median Security Analyst daily rate in Surrey is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 46 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 12 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.37% 2.41% 3.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.53% 2.58% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 17
10th Percentile £418 £349 £546
25th Percentile £463 £456 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £506 £645
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -21.51% +22.86%
75th Percentile £520 £550 £673
90th Percentile £536 £558 -
South East median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - +25.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 340 503 742
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 93.32% 97.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 349 595
10th Percentile £204 £203 £194
25th Percentile £250 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £638
90th Percentile £625 £663 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 29
10th Percentile £20.55 £15.96 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -56.26% +11.82% +114.25%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Analyst in Surrey

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in Surrey

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Analyst in Surrey over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Analyst in Surrey

Security Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Analyst job vacancies in Surrey

Security Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Leatherhead +5 5 £488 -4.88%
Guildford - 2 £425 - 2
Security Analyst
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Surrey region featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
3 8 (66.67%) Incident Management
4 7 (58.33%) Network Load Balancing
4 7 (58.33%) F5
4 7 (58.33%) Palo Alto
4 7 (58.33%) Runbook
4 7 (58.33%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (58.33%) Zero Trust
5 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (50.00%) Qualys
6 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
7 4 (33.33%) NGFW
8 3 (25.00%) Akamai
8 3 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (25.00%) Imperva
8 3 (25.00%) Data Security
9 2 (16.67%) Wireless
9 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
9 2 (16.67%) Azure
9 2 (16.67%) AWS
9 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
10 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
10 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
10 1 (8.33%) SaaS
10 1 (8.33%) Aruba
10 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
10 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (8.33%) MCSE

Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Akamai
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) NGFW
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (66.67%) Incident Management
3 7 (58.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 7 (58.33%) Runbook
3 7 (58.33%) Zero Trust
4 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Security
5 3 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
7 1 (8.33%) SIEM
7 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCNA
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) MCSE
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) CrowdStrike
1 7 (58.33%) F5
1 7 (58.33%) Palo Alto
2 6 (50.00%) Qualys
3 3 (25.00%) Imperva
4 1 (8.33%) Aruba
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk