Information Security Contracts in the City of London

Information Security (InfoSec)
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 Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 87 103
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 -18
Contract jobs citing Information Security 65 99 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.95% 2.72% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 2.96% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 68 62
10th Percentile £410 £489 £400
25th Percentile £481 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £659 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +19.77% -
75th Percentile £713 £779 £650
90th Percentile £875 £841 £750
Central London median daily rate £625 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% +20.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
75th Percentile £18.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Information Security 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 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
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 £800 £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 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the City of London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the City of London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the City of London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the City of London

Information Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.54%) IIS
2 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 11 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.31%) AWS
4 6 (9.23%) SaaS
5 4 (6.15%) GCP
6 3 (4.62%) GitHub
6 3 (4.62%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.54%) Akamai
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.54%) IaaS
8 1 (1.54%) PaaS
8 1 (1.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Firewall
1 7 (10.77%) Network Security
2 2 (3.08%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) DHCP
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
3 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.54%) WAN
3 1 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.54%) Big Data
2 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.54%) Redis
2 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.08%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) AppScan
2 1 (1.54%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) GitLab
2 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.54%) RStudio
2 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.54%) Subversion
General
1 32 (49.23%) Finance
2 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Legal
5 5 (7.69%) Law
6 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.62%) Local Government
8 2 (3.08%) Advertising
8 2 (3.08%) Back Office
8 2 (3.08%) Front Office
8 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
9 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.54%) Marketing
9 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Consultant
2 15 (23.08%) Security Consultant
3 11 (16.92%) Information Security Consultant
4 10 (15.38%) Analyst
5 6 (9.23%) Senior
6 5 (7.69%) Lead
6 5 (7.69%) Security Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Applications Specialist
7 4 (6.15%) Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Information Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Information Security Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Information Security Officer
7 4 (6.15%) Product Owner
7 4 (6.15%) Security Officer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior Product Owner
8 3 (4.62%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.08%) IT Administrator
9 2 (3.08%) Security Administrator
9 2 (3.08%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.54%) Kafka
1 1 (1.54%) LDAP
1 1 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.77%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Blog
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) iPad
6 1 (1.54%) iPhone
6 1 (1.54%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) PKI
6 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.92%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 13 (20.00%) Agile
4 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (13.85%) Business Case
5 9 (13.85%) Project Management
5 9 (13.85%) Security Architecture
6 8 (12.31%) Cloud Security
7 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
7 7 (10.77%) Due Diligence
7 7 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (10.77%) Information Security Management
7 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.77%) Security Management
8 6 (9.23%) Change Management
8 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.23%) Information Security Governance
8 6 (9.23%) Scrum
8 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.62%) Python
2 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) Bash
3 1 (1.54%) Go
3 1 (1.54%) Java
3 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.54%) R
3 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) CISSP
2 10 (15.38%) CISM
3 9 (13.85%) Degree
4 6 (9.23%) CRISC
5 3 (4.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.62%) CCSK
5 3 (4.62%) CISA
5 3 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) GCIA
6 2 (3.08%) GCIH
6 2 (3.08%) GIAC
7 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.54%) SANS
7 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.77%) NIST
2 18 (27.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (12.31%) GRC
4 6 (9.23%) PCI DSS
5 5 (7.69%) QA
6 4 (6.15%) GDPR
6 4 (6.15%) NCSC
6 4 (6.15%) NIST 800
7 3 (4.62%) ISO 31000
8 2 (3.08%) ISO 22301
8 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.54%) COBIT
9 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.54%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) SCCM
2 3 (4.62%) Ansible
2 3 (4.62%) Nessus
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) CSIRT
3 2 (3.08%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.08%) Grafana
3 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.08%) Puppet
3 2 (3.08%) QRadar
4 1 (1.54%) Graylog
4 1 (1.54%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.54%) Kibana
4 1 (1.54%) logstash
4 1 (1.54%) Nagios
4 1 (1.54%) Packer
4 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (4.62%) Google
3 2 (3.08%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (3.08%) Citrix
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle
3 2 (3.08%) VMware
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe
4 1 (1.54%) Apple
4 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.54%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) Netskope
4 1 (1.54%) New Relic
4 1 (1.54%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.54%) SAP
4 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.54%) Splunk
4 1 (1.54%) Veracode