Senior Security Analyst Contracts

Senior Security Analyst
UK

The median Senior Security Analyst daily rate in the UK is £675, 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 512 565 704
Rank change year-on-year +53 +139 +131
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Analyst 8 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.039% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.042% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 7
10th Percentile £479 £508 £413
25th Percentile £568 £508 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year +29.19% -3.24% +2.86%
75th Percentile £722 £539 £709
90th Percentile £725 £635 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £515 £450
% change year-on-year +31.07% +14.44% -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Analyst in the UK

Senior Security Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Analyst in the UK

Senior Security Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Analyst in the UK

Senior Security Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Analyst in the UK

Senior Security Analyst
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Analyst 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 +54 8 £675 +28.57% 29
London +36 4 £700 +33.33% 19
UK excluding London +55 3 £675 +31.07% 14
South East +46 3 £675 +25.00% 8
Work from Home +35 3 £623 +20.87% 21

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Security Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (25.00%) GRC
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Nessus
4 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (12.50%) CEH
4 1 (12.50%) Nmap
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Wireshark

Senior Security Analyst Skill Set
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 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (12.50%) Journey Map
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Register
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Intel