Security Analyst
UK

The median Security Analyst salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 470 549
Rank change year-on-year +46 +79 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Analyst 584 633 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.62% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.68% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 499 491 620
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £33,725
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,923
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +9.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,612
% change year-on-year +5.56% -1.34% +1.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Security Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Analyst in the UK

Security Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Analyst.

Salary trend for Security Analyst in the UK

Security Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Analyst over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Analyst in the UK

Security Analyst
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 537 £52,500 +5.00% 66
UK excluding London -6 347 £47,500 +5.56% 40
London +70 219 £66,250 +10.42% 25
Work from Home +51 202 £55,000 +10.00% 31
North of England +77 104 £45,000 -3.23% 12
South East -1 88 £50,000 +2.04% 11
North West +25 58 £45,000 -3.23% 5
South West +11 53 £55,000 +12.82% 5
Midlands -34 51 £47,500 -5.00% 4
West Midlands -20 29 £39,750 -20.50% 3
Scotland -58 29 £48,507 -2.99% 6
Yorkshire +81 24 £55,000 +37.50% 7
North East +17 22 £40,000 -
East Midlands -8 22 £52,500 +31.25% 1
East of England +5 19 £47,500 +11.76% 2
Wales -13 2 £41,250 +17.86%
Northern Ireland +17 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 featuring Security Analyst in the job title.

1 364 (62.33%) Cybersecurity
2 326 (55.82%) Information Security
3 237 (40.58%) SIEM
4 190 (32.53%) Firewall
5 184 (31.51%) Azure
6 181 (30.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 169 (28.94%) Microsoft
8 158 (27.05%) Security Operations
9 157 (26.88%) Incident Response
10 146 (25.00%) CISSP
11 133 (22.77%) NIST
12 124 (21.23%) Microsoft 365
13 112 (19.18%) Cloud Security
14 111 (19.01%) Finance
15 108 (18.49%) Vulnerability Management
16 105 (17.98%) Social Skills
17 94 (16.10%) Risk Management
18 90 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
19 89 (15.24%) Management Information System
20 80 (13.70%) Cyber Essentials
21 79 (13.53%) Incident Management
22 78 (13.36%) Cyberattack
23 75 (12.84%) Windows
24 74 (12.67%) Law
25 73 (12.50%) Degree
26 71 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
27 68 (11.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
28 66 (11.30%) GRC
29 64 (10.96%) CISM
29 64 (10.96%) Active Directory

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (1.37%) Skype for Business
2 3 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 184 (31.51%) Azure
2 124 (21.23%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (9.08%) AWS
4 17 (2.91%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (1.37%) SaaS
7 6 (1.03%) OCI
7 6 (1.03%) Power Platform
8 5 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.68%) GCP
9 4 (0.68%) IaaS
9 4 (0.68%) PaaS
10 2 (0.34%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.17%) Google Drive
11 1 (0.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 190 (32.53%) Firewall
2 52 (8.90%) DNS
3 42 (7.19%) Network Security
4 39 (6.68%) Intrusion Detection
5 34 (5.82%) Internet
6 31 (5.31%) DKIM
6 31 (5.31%) DMARC
7 25 (4.28%) WAN
8 24 (4.11%) LAN
9 21 (3.60%) TCP/IP
10 18 (3.08%) VPN
11 14 (2.40%) SSL
12 13 (2.23%) Wireless
13 11 (1.88%) VoIP
14 9 (1.54%) SD-WAN
15 8 (1.37%) BGP
15 8 (1.37%) MPLS
15 8 (1.37%) OSPF
15 8 (1.37%) Skype
15 8 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.03%) Power BI
2 2 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (1.54%) Burp Suite
1 9 (1.54%) Metasploit
General
1 111 (19.01%) Finance
2 105 (17.98%) Social Skills
3 90 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (12.67%) Law
5 33 (5.65%) Legal
6 31 (5.31%) Retail
7 18 (3.08%) Banking
8 16 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.71%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.03%) Marketing
12 5 (0.86%) Advertising
12 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Automotive
14 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.71%) 802.1X
1 10 (1.71%) REST
2 8 (1.37%) SAML
3 2 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.34%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.24%) Management Information System
2 78 (13.36%) Cyberattack
3 56 (9.59%) Cyber Threat
4 36 (6.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 30 (5.14%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 15 (2.57%) Cyber Defence
7 15 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 13 (2.23%) Operational Technology
10 12 (2.05%) IoT
11 11 (1.88%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
12 8 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.86%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 75 (12.84%) Windows
2 28 (4.79%) Linux
3 23 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.34%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.34%) Unix
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (62.33%) Cybersecurity
2 326 (55.82%) Information Security
3 237 (40.58%) SIEM
4 158 (27.05%) Security Operations
5 157 (26.88%) Incident Response
6 112 (19.18%) Cloud Security
7 108 (18.49%) Vulnerability Management
8 94 (16.10%) Risk Management
9 79 (13.53%) Incident Management
10 71 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (11.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 60 (10.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 58 (9.93%) Penetration Testing
14 54 (9.25%) Security Monitoring
15 52 (8.90%) Security Management
16 50 (8.56%) Risk Assessment
17 48 (8.22%) Threat Intelligence
17 48 (8.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 44 (7.53%) Application Security
19 43 (7.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (3.77%) PowerShell
2 21 (3.60%) Python
3 10 (1.71%) Bash
4 4 (0.68%) C++
4 4 (0.68%) Java
4 4 (0.68%) R
5 2 (0.34%) C#
5 2 (0.34%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 146 (25.00%) CISSP
2 73 (12.50%) Degree
3 64 (10.96%) CISM
4 63 (10.79%) CISA
5 61 (10.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 40 (6.85%) CompTIA CySA+
7 36 (6.16%) Security Cleared
8 31 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (5.14%) CCSP
10 28 (4.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 28 (4.79%) CEH
11 27 (4.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 22 (3.77%) GIAC
13 20 (3.42%) Master's Degree
14 19 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (3.25%) CRISC
15 16 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.88%) DV Cleared
17 10 (1.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (30.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (22.77%) NIST
3 80 (13.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 66 (11.30%) GRC
5 53 (9.08%) GDPR
6 46 (7.88%) PCI DSS
7 35 (5.99%) NCSC
8 31 (5.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 19 (3.25%) SOC 2
10 10 (1.71%) COBIT
11 8 (1.37%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.86%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.51%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.51%) QA
13 3 (0.51%) SLA
13 3 (0.51%) TickIT
14 2 (0.34%) GLBA
14 2 (0.34%) ITGC
System Software
1 64 (10.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
2 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 38 (6.51%) CASB
2 17 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.23%) CSIRT
5 9 (1.54%) Nmap
6 6 (1.03%) Nessus
7 5 (0.86%) WSUS
8 2 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 169 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
3 13 (2.23%) Splunk
4 12 (2.05%) Cisco
4 12 (2.05%) Qualys
5 11 (1.88%) Rapid7
6 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
6 8 (1.37%) Ribbon
7 7 (1.20%) Intel
7 7 (1.20%) Proofpoint
8 6 (1.03%) Oracle
8 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.68%) IBM
9 4 (0.68%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.68%) Varonis
10 3 (0.51%) Darktrace
11 2 (0.34%) Facebook
11 2 (0.34%) LogRhythm
11 2 (0.34%) OneTrust
11 2 (0.34%) Sun