Senior Security Analyst Jobs in the City of London

Senior Security Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Security Analyst salary in the City of London is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 229 271
Rank change year-on-year +73 +42 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Analyst 24 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.71% 0.12% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.12% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 1
10th Percentile £62,500 £44,500 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £47,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.00% -16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £120,000 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile - £70,500 -
Central London median annual salary £105,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +68.00% -16.67% +33.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 3,216 4,803 6,685
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 96.45% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 4,069 5,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,164 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Senior Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Analyst in the City of London

Senior Security Analyst
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Analyst in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior Security Analyst in the City of London

Senior Security Analyst
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Analyst in the City of London

Senior Security Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior Security Analyst 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 permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Security Analyst in the job title.

1 17 (70.83%) Finance
1 17 (70.83%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (66.67%) Application Security
2 16 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 15 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (62.50%) Firewall
4 13 (54.17%) SIEM
4 13 (54.17%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 12 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 12 (50.00%) Threat Detection
5 12 (50.00%) Incident Management
5 12 (50.00%) Security Management
5 12 (50.00%) Change Management
5 12 (50.00%) CISSP
5 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 11 (45.83%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (33.33%) Information Security
8 6 (25.00%) REST
8 6 (25.00%) OWASP
8 6 (25.00%) DevSecOps
9 5 (20.83%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 5 (20.83%) Metasploit
9 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
9 5 (20.83%) Burp Suite
9 5 (20.83%) Nmap
9 5 (20.83%) Benchmarking
10 4 (16.67%) Windows
10 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
11 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security

Senior Security Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 15 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Burp Suite
1 5 (20.83%) Metasploit
General
1 17 (70.83%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Banking
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) e-Learning
1 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (66.67%) Application Security
2 16 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 13 (54.17%) SIEM
3 13 (54.17%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 12 (50.00%) Change Management
4 12 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 12 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 12 (50.00%) Security Management
4 12 (50.00%) Threat Detection
5 11 (45.83%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (33.33%) Information Security
7 6 (25.00%) DevSecOps
7 6 (25.00%) OWASP
8 5 (20.83%) Benchmarking
8 5 (20.83%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
9 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
10 3 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (12.50%) CEH
2 3 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (12.50%) GIAC
2 3 (12.50%) GSEC
3 1 (4.17%) CISA
3 1 (4.17%) CRISC
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Nmap
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.17%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft