Information Security Contracts in Merseyside

Information Security (InfoSec)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 44 37
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Information Security 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.78% 1.22% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.40% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £480 £376 £400
25th Percentile £525 £395 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £419 £550
Median % change year-on-year +43.28% -23.86% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £497 £575
90th Percentile £640 £604 £580
North West median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +17.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 286 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 78.22% 87.46% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 218 221
10th Percentile £144 £304 £180
25th Percentile £245 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £486 £430
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +12.97% +16.22%
75th Percentile £498 £550 £538
90th Percentile £608 £633 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 20
10th Percentile - £16.23 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £9.92
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £12.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +48.42% -3.06%
75th Percentile £34.32 £24.64 £16.31
90th Percentile £37.18 £28.11 £34.02
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Merseyside over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 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
Liverpool +8 4 £600 +43.28% 4
Information Security
North West

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST