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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 83 104
Rank change year-on-year +24 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing Information Security 67 92 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.11% 2.66% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 2.91% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 67 61
10th Percentile £406 £485 £400
25th Percentile £450 £545 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £655 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +13.91% +2.91%
75th Percentile £703 £775 £650
90th Percentile £856 £822 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £653 £575
% change year-on-year -15.71% +13.48% +1.32%
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 - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +107.50%

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 1,957 3,157 3,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.77% 91.43% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 2,127 2,903
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.80% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 45
10th Percentile £19.92 £14.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £40.00 £53.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £62.20
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 29 May 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 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.36%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) AWS
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.96%) SaaS
4 5 (7.46%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.99%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.49%) Akamai
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.49%) IaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.49%) PaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) Firewall
2 7 (10.45%) Network Security
3 3 (4.48%) Internet
3 3 (4.48%) WAN
4 2 (2.99%) DNS
4 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.99%) Wireless
5 1 (1.49%) DHCP
5 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) MySQL
2 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.49%) Big Data
2 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.49%) Redis
2 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.48%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) AppScan
3 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.49%) RStudio
3 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.49%) Subversion
General
1 33 (49.25%) Finance
2 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Legal
3 5 (7.46%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Law
5 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Consultant
2 13 (19.40%) Security Consultant
3 10 (14.93%) Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) Information Security Consultant
5 6 (8.96%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Applications Specialist
6 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 4 (5.97%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.97%) Security Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Security Manager
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Product Owner
7 3 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Information Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Information Security Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Information Security Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Security Administrator
8 2 (2.99%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.49%) Kafka
1 1 (1.49%) LDAP
1 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.45%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.46%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Blog
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.49%) iPad
7 1 (1.49%) iPhone
7 1 (1.49%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.49%) PKI
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Windows
2 7 (10.45%) Linux
3 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.27%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (25.37%) Risk Management
3 14 (20.90%) Agile
4 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (13.43%) Cloud Security
5 9 (13.43%) Project Management
6 8 (11.94%) Data Protection
7 7 (10.45%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (10.45%) Information Security Management
7 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.45%) Scrum
7 7 (10.45%) Security Architecture
7 7 (10.45%) Security Management
8 6 (8.96%) Business Case
8 6 (8.96%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (8.96%) Migration
8 6 (8.96%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.96%) Security Monitoring
8 6 (8.96%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (8.96%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
1 3 (4.48%) Python
2 2 (2.99%) Bash
3 1 (1.49%) Go
3 1 (1.49%) Java
3 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.49%) R
3 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) CISSP
2 11 (16.42%) CISM
3 9 (13.43%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) CRISC
5 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.48%) GCIA
6 3 (4.48%) GCIH
6 3 (4.48%) GIAC
7 2 (2.99%) CISA
7 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (25.37%) NIST
2 7 (10.45%) GRC
2 7 (10.45%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.46%) GDPR
3 5 (7.46%) QA
4 4 (5.97%) NIST 800
5 3 (4.48%) COBIT
5 3 (4.48%) ISO 31000
5 3 (4.48%) NCSC
6 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.49%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.99%) Docker
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.99%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) SCCM
2 4 (5.97%) Nessus
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Ansible
3 3 (4.48%) CSIRT
3 3 (4.48%) QRadar
4 2 (2.99%) CASB
4 2 (2.99%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.99%) Puppet
4 2 (2.99%) SCOrch
4 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) Graylog
5 1 (1.49%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.49%) Kibana
5 1 (1.49%) logstash
5 1 (1.49%) Packer
5 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (5.97%) Google
3 3 (4.48%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) VMware
4 2 (2.99%) Apple
4 2 (2.99%) Citrix
4 2 (2.99%) Imperva
4 2 (2.99%) Netskope
4 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.49%) Dell
5 1 (1.49%) New Relic
5 1 (1.49%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.49%) Qualys
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) Veracode