Security Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding 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 287 282 301
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst 49 118 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.57% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.61% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 85 107
10th Percentile £357 £356 £350
25th Percentile £463 £475 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +6.67%
75th Percentile £566 £750 £588
90th Percentile £628 - £643
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £63.73
25th Percentile - £11.25 £65.19
Median hourly rate £81.35 £12.50 £70.25
Median % change year-on-year +550.80% -82.21% +6.76%
75th Percentile - - £75.19
90th Percentile - - £76.58
UK median hourly rate £67.93 £12.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +443.40% -80.92% -0.46%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

Security Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Analyst in the UK excluding London

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 Security Analyst within the UK excluding 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 East +38 25 £525 - 76
Midlands +16 9 £525 - 43
West Midlands +13 9 £525 -6.67% 22
Scotland -6 8 £287 -45.33% 17
North of England +4 5 £513 -2.38% 75
South West +34 4 £550 -26.67% 25
North West +12 4 £513 -19.61% 30
East of England +25 2 £600 +18.81% 48
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 38
Security Analyst
UK

Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1 42 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 14 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
4 13 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (26.53%) Incident Response
5 12 (24.49%) SIEM
5 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
6 11 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (20.41%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
7 10 (20.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (20.41%) Power BI
8 9 (18.37%) Python
9 8 (16.33%) Information Security
9 8 (16.33%) Incident Management
9 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
9 8 (16.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.29%) Qualys
11 6 (12.24%) Analytics
11 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
11 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (12.24%) Operational Technology
12 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
12 5 (10.20%) Network Security
12 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (8.16%) Security Posture

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.08%) Akamai
4 2 (4.08%) Azure
4 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.04%) AWS
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.04%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Network Security
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
3 2 (4.08%) DNS
3 2 (4.08%) FTP
3 2 (4.08%) HTTP
3 2 (4.08%) SMTP
3 2 (4.08%) SSL
4 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Power BI
2 3 (6.12%) Tableau
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 21 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Finance
6 2 (4.08%) Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.04%) Aviation
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) LDAP
2 1 (2.04%) OAuth
2 1 (2.04%) OpenID
2 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (12.24%) Operational Technology
3 4 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.08%) CSOC
4 2 (4.08%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.04%) SCADA
5 1 (2.04%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 13 (26.53%) Incident Response
4 12 (24.49%) SIEM
5 11 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (20.41%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (16.33%) Incident Management
7 8 (16.33%) Information Security
8 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.24%) Analytics
9 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
10 4 (8.16%) Data Loss Prevention
10 4 (8.16%) Privileged Access Management
10 4 (8.16%) Remediation Plan
10 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (6.12%) Cloud Security
11 3 (6.12%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 3 (6.12%) Identity Management
11 3 (6.12%) Security Monitoring
11 3 (6.12%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (6.12%) SQL
4 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.12%) CISM
4 3 (6.12%) CISSP
4 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) Degree
6 1 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.04%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.04%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.04%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.04%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.04%) NCSC
4 1 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.08%) CASB
3 1 (2.04%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.04%) Nessus
3 1 (2.04%) SCCM
3 1 (2.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Qualys
3 3 (6.12%) CyberArk
3 3 (6.12%) Palo Alto
3 3 (6.12%) Varonis
4 2 (4.08%) Imperva
4 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.04%) FireEye
5 1 (2.04%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Tanium
5 1 (2.04%) Twitter