Information Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 109 121
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Information Security 407 522 672
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.96% 2.29% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.57% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 370 460
10th Percentile £425 £273 £349
25th Percentile £500 £450 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £654 £638
90th Percentile £749 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £595 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -0.83% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 15
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.63 £14.32
25th Percentile £15.24 £51.30 £31.41
Median hourly rate £19.50 £76.50 £73.76
Median % change year-on-year -74.51% +3.71% +26.78%
75th Percentile £19.75 £83.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £21.70 - £80.35
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £75.75 £41.50
% change year-on-year -74.26% +82.53% -0.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +3 128 £568 -6.58% 92
South West +25 99 £600 -7.69% 53
North of England +22 93 £586 +6.55% 95
Midlands +11 67 £645 +17.27% 89
North West +8 51 £600 +9.09% 42
West Midlands -11 42 £648 +10.21% 52
Scotland +18 41 £575 +4.55% 25
Yorkshire +23 38 £582 +3.93% 44
East Midlands +24 21 £500 -4.76% 36
East of England -39 7 £378 -14.93% 36
North East +14 4 £525 -12.50% 9
Wales +9 3 £638 +131.82% 6
Information Security
UK

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (0.98%) Apache Solr
1 4 (0.98%) nginx
1 4 (0.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP CRM
1 2 (0.49%) SAP IS-U
1 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (14.00%) Azure
2 35 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (7.86%) AWS
4 20 (4.91%) SaaS
5 13 (3.19%) IaaS
6 12 (2.95%) GCP
7 11 (2.70%) PaaS
8 9 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.98%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.49%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.49%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.49%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.49%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.25%) GitHub
13 1 (0.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.97%) Network Security
2 25 (6.14%) Firewall
3 21 (5.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (2.70%) VPN
5 9 (2.21%) HTTPS
6 8 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.72%) DNS
7 7 (1.72%) Wireless
8 6 (1.47%) LAN
8 6 (1.47%) WAN
9 5 (1.23%) SAN
10 4 (0.98%) IPsec
10 4 (0.98%) SCCP
11 3 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (0.74%) Intranet
11 3 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.25%) DSL
13 1 (0.25%) Internet
13 1 (0.25%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.91%) Big Data
2 5 (1.23%) MySQL
3 4 (0.98%) Couchbase
3 4 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.49%) GIS
5 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) Power BI
6 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (0.98%) JIRA
2 2 (0.49%) Git
2 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.25%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.25%) AppScan
3 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) MSI
3 1 (0.25%) Postman
3 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.25%) Selenium
3 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.25%) Subversion
3 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.25%) Xcode
General
1 126 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.20%) Public Sector
3 69 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.79%) Finance
5 40 (9.83%) Legal
6 32 (7.86%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.16%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.19%) Law
9 12 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.70%) Marketing
10 11 (2.70%) Military
11 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.47%) Banking
12 6 (1.47%) Police
13 5 (1.23%) Electronics
14 4 (0.98%) Retail
15 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.49%) Automotive
16 2 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 73 (17.94%) Analyst
2 46 (11.30%) Lead
3 38 (9.34%) Architect
4 34 (8.35%) Consultant
5 29 (7.13%) Security Analyst
5 29 (7.13%) Senior
6 28 (6.88%) Security Architect
7 23 (5.65%) Security Consultant
8 22 (5.41%) Project Manager
9 20 (4.91%) SOC Analyst
10 15 (3.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 15 (3.69%) Security Specialist
11 13 (3.19%) Cyber Defence Analyst
11 13 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 13 (3.19%) IT Manager
11 13 (3.19%) Security Manager
12 11 (2.70%) Information Manager
12 11 (2.70%) Security Engineer
12 11 (2.70%) SOC Manager
13 10 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.42%) Apache NiFi
2 13 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.72%) HTML
4 6 (1.47%) JSON
5 5 (1.23%) CSS
5 5 (1.23%) YAML
6 4 (0.98%) LDAP
6 4 (0.98%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.74%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.49%) .NET
8 2 (0.49%) REST
9 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.25%) HTML5
9 1 (0.25%) J2EE
9 1 (0.25%) JSP
9 1 (0.25%) RESTful
9 1 (0.25%) SOAP
9 1 (0.25%) Web Services
9 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 163 (40.05%) Management Information System
2 75 (18.43%) Cyber Defence
3 57 (14.00%) Cyber Threat
4 48 (11.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 34 (8.35%) Security Operations Centre
6 20 (4.91%) Distributed Applications
7 17 (4.18%) CSOC
8 12 (2.95%) Operational Technology
9 11 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.46%) Security Posture
11 9 (2.21%) CMDB
11 9 (2.21%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.97%) CESG
13 5 (1.23%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.23%) IoT
13 5 (1.23%) PMI
14 4 (0.98%) iPhone
14 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.25%) Windows
2 38 (9.34%) Linux
3 26 (6.39%) Apple iOS
4 22 (5.41%) Android
5 19 (4.67%) Unix
6 12 (2.95%) Windows 10
7 11 (2.70%) Windows 7
8 9 (2.21%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.98%) CentOS
10 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.49%) Solaris
10 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (52.09%) Cybersecurity
2 104 (25.55%) SIEM
3 83 (20.39%) Incident Response
4 77 (18.92%) Security Operations
5 74 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 74 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 72 (17.69%) Threat Intelligence
7 67 (16.46%) Use Case
8 57 (14.00%) Security Architecture
9 56 (13.76%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 55 (13.51%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 55 (13.51%) Mentoring
11 51 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (11.55%) CRM
13 46 (11.30%) Case Management
13 46 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
13 46 (11.30%) SOAR
13 46 (11.30%) Vulnerability Management
14 44 (10.81%) Agile
14 44 (10.81%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (5.16%) PowerShell
2 11 (2.70%) Python
3 8 (1.97%) Swift
4 6 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.23%) Bash
6 4 (0.98%) PHP
6 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.74%) C#
7 3 (0.74%) Perl
8 2 (0.49%) AWK
8 2 (0.49%) Bourne shell
8 2 (0.49%) Java
8 2 (0.49%) Korn
8 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.25%) Julia
9 1 (0.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (37.59%) Security Cleared
2 99 (24.32%) DV Cleared
3 59 (14.50%) CISSP
4 54 (13.27%) SC Cleared
5 41 (10.07%) CISM
6 35 (8.60%) Degree
7 19 (4.67%) CISA
8 15 (3.69%) ISACA
9 13 (3.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 12 (2.95%) CEH
11 10 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (2.21%) SSCP
13 8 (1.97%) CISMP
13 8 (1.97%) CRISC
14 6 (1.47%) CCSP
14 6 (1.47%) ISEB
14 6 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (29.24%) NIST
2 89 (21.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (13.27%) NIST 800
4 52 (12.78%) GDPR
5 28 (6.88%) PCI DSS
6 18 (4.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 17 (4.18%) NCSC
8 15 (3.69%) COBIT
8 15 (3.69%) GRC
9 14 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (3.44%) HIPAA
10 13 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 10 (2.46%) SLA
12 9 (2.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 9 (2.21%) QA
13 7 (1.72%) Accessibility
14 6 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
15 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.74%) IASME
16 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 20 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.49%) Docker
4 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.49%) XenApp
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.95%) Kibana
1 12 (2.95%) logstash
2 10 (2.46%) SCCM
2 10 (2.46%) Terraform
3 8 (1.97%) Ansible
4 6 (1.47%) Nessus
5 5 (1.23%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (0.74%) Puppet
6 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.49%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle ZFS
7 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.49%) yum
8 1 (0.25%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.25%) WebInspect
8 1 (0.25%) WMI
8 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 114 (28.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.91%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.46%) Cisco
3 10 (2.46%) Citrix
4 9 (2.21%) Tanium
4 9 (2.21%) VMware
5 8 (1.97%) Okta
6 7 (1.72%) Google
6 7 (1.72%) SAP
7 6 (1.47%) Splunk
8 5 (1.23%) Computacenter
8 5 (1.23%) Reuters
9 4 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.98%) Rapid7
9 4 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.74%) EMC
10 3 (0.74%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.74%) Veritas
11 2 (0.49%) Juniper