Information Specialist Contracts in London

Information Specialist
England > London

The median Information Specialist daily rate in London is £583 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 478 596
Rank change year-on-year +103 +118 -120
Contract jobs requiring an Information Specialist 7 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.019% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.020% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile £474 £348 £388
25th Percentile £528 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% - -
75th Percentile £644 £600 £588
90th Percentile £678 £623 £625
England median daily rate £500 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +50.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Information Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Information Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Specialist in London

Information Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Specialist in London

Information Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Specialist in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Specialist in London

Information Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Specialist in London

Information Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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 +45 3 £600 +41.18% 2
South London - 1 - -
Information Specialist
England

Information Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Information Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Information Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) QA
2 3 (42.86%) Information Management
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Qualys
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) CISM
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Scorecard
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Darktrace
4 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (14.29%) CASB
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform

Information Specialist Skill Set
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 1 (14.29%) Alfresco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Information Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Red Team
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Scorecard
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CISA
2 1 (14.29%) CRISC
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Darktrace
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle