Information Assurance Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Information Assurance
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 61 70
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 1 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.12% 0.99% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 1.11% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £633 £563
25th Percentile £675 £644 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £725 £694 £681
90th Percentile - £698 £708
South West median daily rate £688 £650 £550
% change year-on-year +5.77% +18.18% -6.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Information Assurance 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 708 628 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.03% 88.70% 86.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 345 530
10th Percentile £261 £213 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £480 £533
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -9.86% +6.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £645
90th Percentile £725 £748 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 87 117
10th Percentile £15.60 £42.90 £34.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +8.33% -7.69%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Information Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Information Assurance

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Information Assurance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Information Assurance

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry