Information Assurance Contracts in the North West

Information Assurance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 136 151 176
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 -
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 2 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.073% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £563 £370
25th Percentile £563 £581 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £588 £628 £581
90th Percentile - £693 £603
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% -0.04% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £67.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £83.40 £72.22
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% +15.48% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £76.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.65 £78.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.22% +75.84% -22.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,379 2,929 3,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.54% 90.85% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,093 2,614
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 147 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.46 £43.96
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the North West

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in the North West

Information Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Assurance in the North West

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +11 1 - -
Cumbria -25 1 £575 - 1
Information Assurance
England

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

General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Information Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) CAD
1 1 (50.00%) CAFM
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Information Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes