Information Security Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Information Security 1 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.43% - 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.42%
75th Percentile - - £555
90th Percentile - - £563
East of England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Information Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 206 141 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 88.03% 81.98% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 68 143
10th Percentile £198 £205 £350
25th Percentile £412 £391 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -2.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £555
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £27.00 £51.63
25th Percentile £49.74 £30.78 £52.19
Median hourly rate £82.25 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.55% - -1.48%
75th Percentile £91.50 £64.10 £58.88
90th Percentile - £67.50 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £28.34 £21.00
% change year-on-year -22.36% +34.93% -6.67%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Information Security job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Information Security

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Information Security

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 24 November 2025. 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
Dunstable - 1 £520 -
Information Security
East of England

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft