Information Security Contracts in London

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 107 159
Rank change year-on-year -18 +52 -9
Contract jobs citing Information Security 343 673 722
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.94% 2.49% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.73% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 511 497
10th Percentile £313 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £738 £750 £664
90th Percentile £875 £825 £775
England median daily rate £582 £618 £575
% change year-on-year -5.75% +7.39% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £18.45 £35.40 £18.76
25th Percentile £22.14 £37.13 £25.68
Median hourly rate £24.59 £40.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.53% +45.45% +37.50%
75th Percentile £25.00 £55.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - £64.00 £34.75
England median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -74.00% +11.11% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +12 70 £625 -6.54% 14
East London -8 7 £775 +3.33% 4
South London +12 1 - - 2
West London +10 1 £325 -45.83% 5
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.17%) IIS
5 3 (0.87%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
6 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 63 (18.37%) Azure
2 40 (11.66%) AWS
3 31 (9.04%) SaaS
4 30 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (5.83%) GCP
6 19 (5.54%) IaaS
7 12 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.04%) GitHub
8 7 (2.04%) Mimecast
8 7 (2.04%) PaaS
9 6 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.17%) Serverless
11 3 (0.87%) Akamai
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.87%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.87%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.33%) Firewall
1 32 (9.33%) Network Security
2 17 (4.96%) DNS
3 10 (2.92%) VPN
4 7 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (1.75%) DHCP
5 6 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.46%) Internet
7 4 (1.17%) WAN
7 4 (1.17%) Wireless
8 3 (0.87%) MPLS
8 3 (0.87%) VoIP
9 2 (0.58%) BGP
9 2 (0.58%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.58%) HTTP
9 2 (0.58%) Intranet
9 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.58%) LAN
9 2 (0.58%) OSPF
9 2 (0.58%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.33%) Oracle Database
2 6 (1.75%) MySQL
2 6 (1.75%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.87%) Big Data
4 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.87%) GIS
4 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.87%) Redis
4 3 (0.87%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.87%) Spatial Data
5 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.58%) Metadata
5 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.58%) Power BI
5 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.29%) DB2
6 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (5.54%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.08%) GitLab
3 9 (2.62%) JIRA
4 7 (2.04%) Maven
5 2 (0.58%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.58%) Git
5 2 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.58%) RStudio
6 1 (0.29%) AppScan
6 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 128 (37.32%) Finance
2 106 (30.90%) Social Skills
3 39 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.91%) Banking
5 32 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.37%) Legal
7 11 (3.21%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.21%) Law
7 11 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.62%) Marketing
9 8 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.04%) Retail
11 6 (1.75%) Front Office
12 5 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.46%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.17%) Billing
13 4 (1.17%) Local Government
13 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (15.74%) Analyst
2 47 (13.70%) Architect
3 40 (11.66%) Consultant
4 37 (10.79%) Security Architect
5 34 (9.91%) Security Consultant
5 34 (9.91%) Senior
6 31 (9.04%) Security Manager
7 19 (5.54%) Security Engineer
8 18 (5.25%) Security Analyst
9 17 (4.96%) Information Security Consultant
10 15 (4.37%) Information Security Officer
10 15 (4.37%) Project Manager
10 15 (4.37%) Security Officer
11 14 (4.08%) Information Security Manager
12 13 (3.79%) Chief Information Security Officer
12 13 (3.79%) Information Manager
12 13 (3.79%) Lead
13 12 (3.50%) Developer
13 12 (3.50%) Security Specialist
14 11 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.33%) SailPoint
2 7 (2.04%) Hibernate
2 7 (2.04%) JPA
3 6 (1.75%) LDAP
4 4 (1.17%) CSS
4 4 (1.17%) HTML
5 3 (0.87%) Kafka
5 3 (0.87%) SAML
5 3 (0.87%) XML
6 2 (0.58%) .NET
6 2 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.29%) EDI
7 1 (0.29%) EJB
7 1 (0.29%) J2EE
7 1 (0.29%) JSP
7 1 (0.29%) Node.js
7 1 (0.29%) REST
7 1 (0.29%) Servlets
7 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (21.28%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.41%) Security Posture
3 20 (5.83%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.75%) Learning Management System
6 6 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.46%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.46%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.17%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.17%) CMDB
8 4 (1.17%) iPad
8 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.17%) PKI
8 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.24%) Windows
2 17 (4.96%) Linux
3 9 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.33%) Unix
5 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.87%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (37.32%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (19.24%) Risk Management
3 50 (14.58%) Cloud Security
4 46 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (11.37%) Agile
5 39 (11.37%) Project Management
6 38 (11.08%) Security Operations
7 37 (10.79%) Security Architecture
8 34 (9.91%) Security Management
9 33 (9.62%) Data Protection
9 33 (9.62%) Incident Response
9 33 (9.62%) SIEM
10 32 (9.33%) Identity Access Management
10 32 (9.33%) Information Security Management
11 31 (9.04%) Penetration Testing
12 30 (8.75%) Vulnerability Management
13 29 (8.45%) DevOps
14 28 (8.16%) Computer Science
14 28 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (7.29%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.54%) PowerShell
2 15 (4.37%) Python
3 14 (4.08%) Java
3 14 (4.08%) SQL
4 7 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.87%) Bash
5 3 (0.87%) Go
5 3 (0.87%) Ruby
6 2 (0.58%) C#
6 2 (0.58%) C++
6 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.58%) R
7 1 (0.29%) Gremlin
7 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.29%) Perl
7 1 (0.29%) Scala
7 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (22.16%) CISSP
2 59 (17.20%) CISM
3 56 (16.33%) Degree
4 36 (10.50%) Security Cleared
5 26 (7.58%) CISA
6 25 (7.29%) SC Cleared
7 23 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (4.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (4.66%) CRISC
10 13 (3.79%) GIAC
11 11 (3.21%) DV Cleared
12 10 (2.92%) CREST Certified
13 9 (2.62%) CCSK
13 9 (2.62%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (2.33%) CEH
15 6 (1.75%) PMI Certification
15 6 (1.75%) PMP
15 6 (1.75%) SANS
16 5 (1.46%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (24.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (19.83%) NIST
3 33 (9.62%) GRC
4 26 (7.58%) GDPR
5 20 (5.83%) PCI DSS
6 19 (5.54%) NCSC
7 16 (4.66%) QA
8 15 (4.37%) COBIT
9 11 (3.21%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.62%) PMO
10 9 (2.62%) SLA
11 8 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (2.04%) ISO 22301
12 7 (2.04%) ISO 31000
13 5 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.87%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.58%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 41 (11.95%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.33%) Docker
3 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.87%) Firmware
4 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.58%) XenApp
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (6.71%) Terraform
2 14 (4.08%) Ansible
2 14 (4.08%) SCCM
3 12 (3.50%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.33%) Nessus
5 5 (1.46%) CASB
5 5 (1.46%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.46%) Puppet
6 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.87%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.87%) Grafana
7 3 (0.87%) Packer
8 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 2 (0.58%) logstash
8 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.58%) QRadar
9 1 (0.29%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (23.32%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.41%) Oracle
3 14 (4.08%) Google
3 14 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.62%) Cisco
4 9 (2.62%) Qualys
5 8 (2.33%) SAP
6 7 (2.04%) Okta
6 7 (2.04%) VMware
7 6 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.75%) Workday
8 5 (1.46%) Apple
9 4 (1.17%) Citrix
10 3 (0.87%) Adobe
10 3 (0.87%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (0.87%) ESRI
10 3 (0.87%) McAfee
10 3 (0.87%) Polycom
10 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.87%) SolarWinds