Information Assurance Contracts in the North of England

Information Assurance
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Information Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Assurance over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 165 226
Rank change year-on-year -13 +61 -37
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 6 43 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% 0.75% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.83% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 11
10th Percentile - £500 £400
25th Percentile £500 £511 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £628 £603
90th Percentile - £669 £675
England median daily rate £575 £600 £608
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.32% +5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £83.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.47 £83.31 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.02% +87.21% -22.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Information Assurance 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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,996 5,176 6,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.65% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,584 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 204 263
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.88
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +51.84% +3.15%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £62.18
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Assurance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +18 3 £525 - 1
North East - 2 £525 -
North West -14 1 - - 1
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Information Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Information Assurance Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
1 4 (66.67%) Regulatory Change
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CISA
1 4 (66.67%) CISM
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
1 4 (66.67%) ISSAP
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) COBIT
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes