Security Analytics Contracts

Security Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Security Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 580 704
Rank change year-on-year +66 +124 +115
Contract jobs citing Security Analytics 6 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.005% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.005% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £534 - £587
25th Percentile £547 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £396 £625
Median % change year-on-year +48.36% -36.64% +7.53%
75th Percentile £622 - £638
90th Percentile £631 - £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £396 £628
% change year-on-year +38.89% -36.89% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Security Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Analytics in the UK

Security Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Analytics in the UK

Security Analytics
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Analytics within the UK 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
England +60 5 £588 +48.36% 8
UK excluding London +64 3 £550 +38.89% 7
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
South West +46 1 £550 - 4
London - 1 - - 2
Work from Home - 1 - - 3

Security Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) SOAR
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Event Correlation
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Server Hardening
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) CISA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) FireEye
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium