Information Assurance Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Information Assurance
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.14% 0.36% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 £610 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £620 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% - -
75th Percentile £713 £630 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £635 £615
% change year-on-year -9.45% +3.25% -1.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 560 260 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.32% 93.19% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 192 313
10th Percentile £304 £210 £225
25th Percentile £404 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £594 £599 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £685
South East median daily rate £509 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.34% +1.50% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 37
10th Percentile £15.23 - £15.94
25th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £19.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -24.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £23.67 £53.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £61.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £37.20 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year +14.46% -22.62% -6.67%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Assurance within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 March 2026. 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
Marlow - 1 £675 - 1
Information Assurance
South East

Information Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Product Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware