Information Security Contracts in the South West

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 89 114
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 -48
Contract jobs citing Information Security 89 85 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.82% 2.40% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 2.67% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 32
10th Percentile £500 £470 £351
25th Percentile £513 £525 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £647
90th Percentile £723 £822 £788
England median daily rate £588 £620 £575
% change year-on-year -5.24% +7.83% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 11
10th Percentile - £72.58 -
25th Percentile - £80.19 -
Median hourly rate - £83.31 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.08% +28.36%
75th Percentile - £83.40 £77.02
90th Percentile - - £81.23
England median hourly rate £19.50 £75.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year -74.26% +12.22% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.26% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £216 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire +36 53 £591 -5.44% 2
Bristol -4 19 £525 -31.15% 19
Gloucestershire +4 11 £700 +7.69% 4
Dorset +6 4 - - 3
Devon - 1 - - 2
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.49%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.49%) nginx
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.87%) Azure
2 5 (5.62%) GCP
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.49%) IaaS
4 3 (3.37%) PaaS
5 2 (2.25%) AWS
6 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Network Security
2 4 (4.49%) DNS
2 4 (4.49%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.49%) IPsec
2 4 (4.49%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.25%) Firewall
3 2 (2.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.12%) VPN
4 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Couchbase
1 4 (4.49%) MySQL
1 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
General
1 39 (43.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.36%) Telecoms
4 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.11%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.11%) Military
6 6 (6.74%) Legal
7 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.25%) Finance
9 1 (1.12%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Analyst
2 24 (26.97%) Lead
3 14 (15.73%) SOC Analyst
4 11 (12.36%) Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 9 (10.11%) SOC Manager
6 8 (8.99%) Lead Architect
6 8 (8.99%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Desktop Support
7 4 (4.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared Project Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Information Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Security Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Security Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) JSON
1 4 (4.49%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (4.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (58.43%) Management Information System
2 37 (41.57%) Cyber Defence
3 31 (34.83%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (32.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 29 (32.58%) Security Operations Centre
5 16 (17.98%) CSOC
6 8 (8.99%) CESG
7 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.49%) CMDB
9 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Windows
2 6 (6.74%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.62%) Linux
4 4 (4.49%) CentOS
4 4 (4.49%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (74.16%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (52.81%) Incident Response
3 45 (50.56%) Threat Intelligence
4 39 (43.82%) Security Operations
5 38 (42.70%) SIEM
6 37 (41.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 35 (39.33%) Use Case
8 29 (32.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 29 (32.58%) Mentoring
9 28 (31.46%) Incident Management
9 28 (31.46%) SOAR
10 27 (30.34%) Case Management
10 27 (30.34%) CRM
10 27 (30.34%) Root Cause Analysis
11 26 (29.21%) Protective Monitoring
12 19 (21.35%) ITIL
13 16 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (13.48%) Agile
14 12 (13.48%) Information Assurance
15 10 (11.24%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.49%) PHP
3 2 (2.25%) Bash
3 2 (2.25%) Julia
3 2 (2.25%) Perl
3 2 (2.25%) Python
3 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (80.90%) Security Cleared
2 57 (64.04%) DV Cleared
3 19 (21.35%) CISSP
4 18 (20.22%) CISM
5 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
6 8 (8.99%) CEH
6 8 (8.99%) CISA
6 8 (8.99%) CISMP
6 8 (8.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (8.99%) ISACA
6 8 (8.99%) SSCP
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CCNP
7 1 (1.12%) CCSP
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (60.67%) NIST
2 37 (41.57%) NIST 800
3 32 (35.96%) GDPR
4 17 (19.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (17.98%) NCSC
6 13 (14.61%) HIPAA
7 9 (10.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (4.49%) QA
9 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.12%) GRC
10 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (7.87%) Terraform
2 5 (5.62%) SCCM
3 4 (4.49%) Ansible
3 4 (4.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (41.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) Google
3 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.12%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.12%) SAP
4 1 (1.12%) VMware