HMG Security Policy Framework Contract Job Trends in Bristol

HMG Security Policy Framework (SPF)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring HMG Security Policy Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HMG Security Policy Framework 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.15% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £553 - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 - -
75th Percentile £649 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
South West median daily rate £608 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bristol

HMG Security Policy Framework falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 179 141 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 13.26% 20.70% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 76 41
10th Percentile £254 £296 £213
25th Percentile £399 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £618 £575 £590
90th Percentile £675 £681 £775
South West median daily rate £525 £516 £513
% change year-on-year +1.69% +0.73% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 33
10th Percentile £19.33 £15.48 £39.20
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.13 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.93% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.94 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.24 £74.00
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.77%

HMG Security Policy Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HMG Security Policy Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

HMG Security Policy Framework job vacancy trend in Bristol

HMG Security Policy Framework
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing HMG Security Policy Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing HMG Security Policy Framework

HMG Security Policy Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing HMG Security Policy Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing HMG Security Policy Framework

HMG Security Policy Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Assurance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk