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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 66 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +33
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 3 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.43% 0.99% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.21% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 16
10th Percentile - £633 £531
25th Percentile £675 £644 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +22.07%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £814
90th Percentile - £698 £835
South West median daily rate £694 £638 £575
% change year-on-year +8.82% +10.87% -8.00%

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 636 746 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.17% 82.43% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 407 640
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £650
90th Percentile £675 £705 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 142 114
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.13 £18.48
25th Percentile £18.51 £65.00 £45.44
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +7.69% +2.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.94
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £63.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +6.18% +11.18%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in Bristol

Information Assurance
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

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Foundry