Information Security Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Security Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 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
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 380 424
Rank change year-on-year +28 +44 +84
Contract jobs requiring an Information Security Analyst 14 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.053% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.057% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 12
10th Percentile - £400 £403
25th Percentile £350 £419 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £438 £540 £529
90th Percentile £480 £679 £594
UK median daily rate £425 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -21.30% +8.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,456 19,132 22,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 92.32% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,291 11,526 15,163
10th Percentile £220 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,123 2,331 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.86 £13.53
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +78.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.88% -5.88% +65.50%

Information Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Information Security Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Information Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Information Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Information Security Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Information Security Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Midlands +11 11 £400 -
East Midlands +4 11 £400 -
Scotland - 2 £438 - 3
South West - 1 - - 1
Information Security Analyst
UK

Information Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 July 2025, Information 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 UK excluding London region featuring Information Security Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Information Security
2 11 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (71.43%) GRC
3 10 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (64.29%) ITSM
4 9 (64.29%) Data Protection
5 8 (57.14%) Business Continuity
6 7 (50.00%) Retail
6 7 (50.00%) Ticket Management
7 5 (35.71%) GDPR
8 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
8 3 (21.43%) Finance
9 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (14.29%) CISA
9 2 (14.29%) CISM
9 2 (14.29%) Agile
9 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
9 2 (14.29%) Azure
9 2 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (14.29%) DevOps
9 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (14.29%) Tenable
9 2 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
9 2 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
10 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act

Information Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Retail
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Information Security
2 11 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (64.29%) Data Protection
4 9 (64.29%) ITSM
5 8 (57.14%) Business Continuity
6 7 (50.00%) Ticket Management
7 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) DevOps
8 2 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
9 1 (7.14%) Behavioural Analytics
9 1 (7.14%) Compliance Audit
9 1 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
9 1 (7.14%) Tech Ops
9 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CISA
1 2 (14.29%) CISM
1 2 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) GRC
2 5 (35.71%) GDPR
3 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Tenable
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Varonis