Security Analyst Contracts

The median contractor rate for a Security Analyst was £425 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Security Analyst UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	344	336	366
Rank change year-on-year	-8	+30
Contract jobs requiring a Security Analyst	275	340	304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.59%	0.63%	0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.62%	0.67%	0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	181	223	165
Median daily rate	£425	£405	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.93%	-10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£330	£300	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£394
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	9
Median hourly rate	£46.00	£24.50	£51.17
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+87.75%	-52.12%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£46.00	£24.50	£51.17
% change year-on-year	+87.75%	-52.12%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	44357	51050	53273
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.75%	94.87%	94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	28704	33277	33414
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£248
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£570
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1368	1510	2064
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£44.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.14
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+8.11%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Security Analyst in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Security Analyst in the UK

Security Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Security Analyst.

Contractor daily rate trend for Security Analyst in the UK

Security Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Security Analyst over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Security Analyst in the UK

Security Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Analyst.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Security Analyst in the UK

Security Analyst
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-7	266	£425	+4.93%	59
London	+28	133	£444	-5.08%	26
South East	-12	37	£440	+10.00%	13
East of England	-8	28	£378	-5.62%	2
South West	-2	23	£375	-	5
City of London	-3	22	£444	-5.08%	4
North West	-14	15	£388	+3.33%	1
Yorkshire	+16	14	£425	+6.25%	8
Hertfordshire	+7	14	£350	-17.64%
Scotland	+33	9	£400	-1.23%	4
Gloucestershire	+17	9	£335	-
South Yorkshire	+10	9	£425	+3.03%
West Midlands	+8	9	£438	+16.66%	2
West Sussex	+9	8	£450	+5.88%
Manchester	-18	8	£475	+17.28%
East Midlands	-1	7	£425	-	1
Oxfordshire	-7	7	£425	-	1
Bristol	-11	7	£520	+38.66%	3
Sheffield	+13	6	£425	+6.25%
Essex	-18	6	£513	+28.12%
Edinburgh	+15	5	£400	-27.27%	2
West Yorkshire	+10	5	£425	+6.25%	8
Northamptonshire	+5	5	£425	-10.52%
Leeds	+3	5	£425	+6.25%	7
Liverpool	+2	5	£313	-
Kent	+2	5	£375	-11.76%	1
Merseyside	+1	5	£313	-
Crawley	0	5	£450	+5.88%
Buckinghamshire	-14	5	£388	-1.58%
Dorset	-	5	£475	-	1

Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, Security Analyst contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1	244 (46.48%)	Information Security
2	154 (29.33%)	Firewall
3	153 (29.14%)	Cybersecurity
4	141 (26.86%)	CISSP
5	119 (22.67%)	SIEM
6	115 (21.90%)	Windows
7	100 (19.05%)	Finance
8	97 (18.48%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	82 (15.62%)	Security Operations
10	76 (14.48%)	CISM
11	66 (12.57%)	Degree
11	66 (12.57%)	Analytical Skills
12	65 (12.38%)	Incident Management
12	65 (12.38%)	Security Cleared
13	64 (12.19%)	Linux

14	62 (11.81%)	Unix
14	62 (11.81%)	Penetration Testing
14	62 (11.81%)	Network Security
15	60 (11.43%)	Vulnerability Management
16	59 (11.24%)	ITIL
17	58 (11.05%)	PCI DSS
18	57 (10.86%)	Management Information System
19	55 (10.48%)	Microsoft
19	55 (10.48%)	Splunk
20	53 (10.10%)	Intrusion Detection
21	49 (9.33%)	Banking
22	48 (9.14%)	Security Operations Centre
23	46 (8.76%)	Risk Management
24	44 (8.38%)	SC Cleared
25	43 (8.19%)	SANS

Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	9 (1.71%)	SharePoint
2	4 (0.76%)	MS Exchange
3	3 (0.57%)	Apache Pig
3	3 (0.57%)	Confluence
3	3 (0.57%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	3 (0.57%)	Tomcat
4	2 (0.38%)	Apache
4	2 (0.38%)	Elasticsearch
4	2 (0.38%)	IIS
4	2 (0.38%)	Jetty
5	1 (0.19%)	OpenStack
5	1 (0.19%)	SharePoint 2010
5	1 (0.19%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	25 (4.76%)	Microsoft Excel
2	12 (2.29%)	Microsoft Office
3	8 (1.52%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	5 (0.95%)	MS Visio
5	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	6 (1.14%)	SAP GRC
2	2 (0.38%)	SAP GTS
2	2 (0.38%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	2 (0.38%)	SAP S/4HANA
2	2 (0.38%)	Temenos T24
3	1 (0.19%)	SAP HCM
3	1 (0.19%)	SAP R/3

Cloud Services
1	21 (4.00%)	Amazon AWS
2	19 (3.62%)	Microsoft Azure
3	10 (1.90%)	Mimecast
4	9 (1.71%)	Office 365
5	5 (0.95%)	SaaS
6	4 (0.76%)	Cloud Computing
7	3 (0.57%)	Akamai
7	3 (0.57%)	Sumo Logic
8	2 (0.38%)	IaaS
8	2 (0.38%)	PaaS
9	1 (0.19%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	1 (0.19%)	OpenDNS

Communications & Networking
1	154 (29.33%)	Firewall
2	62 (11.81%)	Network Security
3	53 (10.10%)	Intrusion Detection
4	39 (7.43%)	Internet
5	36 (6.86%)	TCP/IP
6	29 (5.52%)	LAN
7	28 (5.33%)	WAN
8	20 (3.81%)	VPN
9	15 (2.86%)	Wireless
10	14 (2.67%)	Cisco ASA
11	12 (2.29%)	DNS
11	12 (2.29%)	TACACS
12	10 (1.90%)	Kerberos
13	9 (1.71%)	VLAN
14	7 (1.33%)	HTTP
14	7 (1.33%)	VoIP
15	6 (1.14%)	SSL
16	5 (0.95%)	LDAP
17	3 (0.57%)	IPsec
17	3 (0.57%)	SNMP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	8 (1.52%)	Data Mining
2	7 (1.33%)	MS Access
2	7 (1.33%)	Redis
3	2 (0.38%)	Big Data
3	2 (0.38%)	SAP BW
3	2 (0.38%)	SQL Server
4	1 (0.19%)	BusinessObjects
4	1 (0.19%)	BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4	1 (0.19%)	Data Lake
4	1 (0.19%)	GIS
4	1 (0.19%)	Hadoop
4	1 (0.19%)	Maltego
4	1 (0.19%)	SQL Server 2005

Development Applications
1	11 (2.10%)	Visual Studio
2	8 (1.52%)	Metasploit
3	3 (0.57%)	JIRA
4	2 (0.38%)	AppScan
4	2 (0.38%)	CruiseControl
4	2 (0.38%)	Eclipse
4	2 (0.38%)	IDA Disassembler
4	2 (0.38%)	OllyDbg
4	2 (0.38%)	Pylint
4	2 (0.38%)	TeamCity
5	1 (0.19%)	VSS/SourceSafe

General
1	100 (19.05%)	Finance
2	49 (9.33%)	Banking
3	32 (6.10%)	Legal
4	15 (2.86%)	Telecoms
5	12 (2.29%)	Retail
6	11 (2.10%)	Manufacturing
7	3 (0.57%)	Aerospace
7	3 (0.57%)	International Banking
8	2 (0.38%)	Back Office
8	2 (0.38%)	Investment Banking
8	2 (0.38%)	Law
8	2 (0.38%)	Pharmaceutical
8	2 (0.38%)	Publishing
8	2 (0.38%)	Spanish Language
9	1 (0.19%)	Automotive
9	1 (0.19%)	Billing
9	1 (0.19%)	Electronics
9	1 (0.19%)	Financial Institution
9	1 (0.19%)	Marketing
9	1 (0.19%)	Retail Banking

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	12 (2.29%)	Web Services
2	11 (2.10%)	.NET
3	8 (1.52%)	Elastic Stack
3	8 (1.52%)	SAML
4	6 (1.14%)	Regular Expression
5	3 (0.57%)	RESTful
6	1 (0.19%)	ISPF
6	1 (0.19%)	SAP Basis

Miscellaneous
1	66 (12.57%)	Analytical Skills
2	57 (10.86%)	Management Information System
3	48 (9.14%)	Security Operations Centre
4	33 (6.29%)	Computer Science
5	28 (5.33%)	Data Centre
6	20 (3.81%)	Cyberthreat
7	13 (2.48%)	Cyber Attack
8	9 (1.71%)	Data Protection Act
8	9 (1.71%)	Wiki
9	5 (0.95%)	Cyber Defence
10	4 (0.76%)	Client/Server
10	4 (0.76%)	iSeries
10	4 (0.76%)	PMI
10	4 (0.76%)	Tandem
11	3 (0.57%)	BYOD
11	3 (0.57%)	Driving Licence
11	3 (0.57%)	PKI
11	3 (0.57%)	Shadow IT
12	2 (0.38%)	Greenfield Project
12	2 (0.38%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	115 (21.90%)	Windows
2	64 (12.19%)	Linux
3	62 (11.81%)	Unix
4	21 (4.00%)	Windows Server
5	12 (2.29%)	Windows 7
6	10 (1.90%)	Mac OS X
6	10 (1.90%)	Solaris
6	10 (1.90%)	Windows Server 2012
7	9 (1.71%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	9 (1.71%)	Windows Server 2008
8	8 (1.52%)	Windows 10
9	5 (0.95%)	AIX
9	5 (0.95%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10	4 (0.76%)	OpenVMS
10	4 (0.76%)	VMS
10	4 (0.76%)	Windows NT
11	2 (0.38%)	CentOS
11	2 (0.38%)	Kali Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	244 (46.48%)	Information Security
2	153 (29.14%)	Cybersecurity
3	119 (22.67%)	SIEM
4	82 (15.62%)	Security Operations
5	65 (12.38%)	Incident Management
6	62 (11.81%)	Penetration Testing
7	60 (11.43%)	Vulnerability Management
8	59 (11.24%)	ITIL
9	46 (8.76%)	Risk Management
10	40 (7.62%)	Vulnerability Assessment
11	35 (6.67%)	Agile Software Development
12	34 (6.48%)	Business Analysis
13	33 (6.29%)	Security Monitoring
14	30 (5.71%)	Data Protection
15	29 (5.52%)	Security Testing
15	29 (5.52%)	Stakeholder Management
16	25 (4.76%)	Malware Analysis
17	23 (4.38%)	Kalman Filter
18	21 (4.00%)	Identity Access Management
19	20 (3.81%)	Continuous Improvement

Programming Languages
1	22 (4.19%)	Java
2	18 (3.43%)	Python
3	14 (2.67%)	SQL
4	12 (2.29%)	PowerShell
5	11 (2.10%)	C#
6	7 (1.33%)	Perl
7	5 (0.95%)	JavaScript
7	5 (0.95%)	VBScript
8	4 (0.76%)	C
9	3 (0.57%)	PHP
9	3 (0.57%)	R
10	2 (0.38%)	Assembly Language
10	2 (0.38%)	JCL
11	1 (0.19%)	ABAP
11	1 (0.19%)	Bash Shell
11	1 (0.19%)	REXX
11	1 (0.19%)	Scala
11	1 (0.19%)	Shell Script
11	1 (0.19%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	141 (26.86%)	CISSP
2	76 (14.48%)	CISM
3	66 (12.57%)	Degree
4	65 (12.38%)	Security Cleared
5	44 (8.38%)	SC Cleared
6	43 (8.19%)	SANS
7	36 (6.86%)	CISA
7	36 (6.86%)	SSCP
8	32 (6.10%)	Cisco Certification
9	25 (4.76%)	CEH
10	23 (4.38%)	DV Cleared
11	19 (3.62%)	GCIH
12	17 (3.24%)	Computer Science Degree
13	15 (2.86%)	CREST Certified
13	15 (2.86%)	GCIA
13	15 (2.86%)	GIAC
14	12 (2.29%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
14	12 (2.29%)	CCNP
15	11 (2.10%)	CCSP
16	10 (1.90%)	CCIE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	97 (18.48%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	58 (11.05%)	PCI DSS
3	28 (5.33%)	COBIT
4	22 (4.19%)	SLA
5	16 (3.05%)	GDPR
6	14 (2.67%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7	13 (2.48%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	8 (1.52%)	Cyber Essentials
9	5 (0.95%)	PMO
10	3 (0.57%)	Data Quality
10	3 (0.57%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
10	3 (0.57%)	ISO 22301
10	3 (0.57%)	ISO/IEC 27005
11	2 (0.38%)	QA
12	1 (0.19%)	EFQM
12	1 (0.19%)	EMIR
12	1 (0.19%)	GCP
12	1 (0.19%)	GxP
12	1 (0.19%)	HIPAA
12	1 (0.19%)	MiFID

System Software
1	41 (7.81%)	Active Directory
2	20 (3.81%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	13 (2.48%)	VMware ESXi
4	8 (1.52%)	RACF
5	7 (1.33%)	Snort
6	3 (0.57%)	vSphere
7	2 (0.38%)	VirtualBox
8	1 (0.19%)	BitLocker
8	1 (0.19%)	Hyper-V
8	1 (0.19%)	vCloud

Systems Management
1	19 (3.62%)	QRadar
2	12 (2.29%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
3	11 (2.10%)	CA Single Sign-On
3	11 (2.10%)	CSIRT
4	10 (1.90%)	Nessus
5	9 (1.71%)	HP Fortify
6	7 (1.33%)	Kibana
6	7 (1.33%)	RSA enVision
7	6 (1.14%)	logstash
8	5 (0.95%)	BladeLogic
8	5 (0.95%)	Computer Incident Response Team
8	5 (0.95%)	Network Intrusion Detection System
8	5 (0.95%)	SCCM
9	4 (0.76%)	McAfee ePO
9	4 (0.76%)	Nmap
10	3 (0.57%)	Stealthwatch
10	3 (0.57%)	WMI
11	2 (0.38%)	EnCase
11	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Vendors
1	55 (10.48%)	Microsoft
1	55 (10.48%)	Splunk
2	38 (7.24%)	Cisco
3	29 (5.52%)	LogRhythm
4	27 (5.14%)	CheckPoint
5	25 (4.76%)	ArcSight
5	25 (4.76%)	McAfee
6	22 (4.19%)	Qualys
7	21 (4.00%)	VMware
8	19 (3.62%)	F5
9	17 (3.24%)	SAP
10	16 (3.05%)	HP
11	15 (2.86%)	Nokia
12	13 (2.48%)	Rapid7
13	11 (2.10%)	CA
13	11 (2.10%)	Red Hat
13	11 (2.10%)	Sophos
14	10 (1.90%)	Dell
14	10 (1.90%)	Intel
14	10 (1.90%)	Juniper