Information Assurance Contracts in the City of London

Information Assurance
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Information Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Assurance over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 170 187
Rank change year-on-year +46 +17 -39
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.091% 0.055% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.060% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 £620 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £640 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.64% - -
75th Percentile £456 £660 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £438 £640 -
% change year-on-year -31.64% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Information Assurance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,989 3,335 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.53% 91.72% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 2,250 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the City of London

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in the City of London

Information Assurance
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle