Information Security Contracts in the East of England

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 79 88
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Information Security 19 44 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.00% 2.08% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 2.39% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 43
10th Percentile £293 £185 £326
25th Percentile £450 £261 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -25.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £663
90th Percentile £678 £650 £725
England median daily rate £582 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -5.37% +6.96% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile - - £15.48
25th Percentile £42.50 £17.50 £15.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.72 £23.71
Median % change year-on-year +182.17% -25.25% -35.05%
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - £25.93 £57.55
England median hourly rate £19.50 £75.75 £72.22
% change year-on-year -74.26% +4.89% +183.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,646 1,838 2,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.59% 87.03% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 1,087 1,284
10th Percentile £225 £200 £185
25th Percentile £350 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 350 397
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +61.29% -5.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +9 11 £563 +40.63% 24
Bedfordshire -7 5 £538 +3.37% 2
Cambridgeshire -3 2 £305 +60.53% 2
Essex +2 1 £650 +4.00% 3
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Camtasia
1 1 (5.26%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) LAN
2 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 2 (10.53%) Intranet
2 2 (10.53%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Architect
1 4 (21.05%) Coordinator
1 4 (21.05%) Project Coordinator
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Network Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Information Risk Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Management Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Security Compliance Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
2 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
2 2 (10.53%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.26%) Blog
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) FMCG
3 1 (5.26%) Insider Threat
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Facilities Management
1 6 (31.58%) Project Management
2 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (26.32%) Time Management
2 5 (26.32%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
3 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
4 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
4 2 (10.53%) Cryptography
4 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (10.53%) Key Management
4 2 (10.53%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
4 2 (10.53%) SDLC
4 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (10.53%) Service Management
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Data Management
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.26%) CCSK
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) GRC
3 1 (5.26%) ISO 22301
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.26%) NCSC
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) CyberArk