Information Security Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 34 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Information Security 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.80% 1.12% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.34% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% - -
75th Percentile £238 £650 -
90th Percentile - £680 -
East of England median daily rate £498 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -17.08% +6.67% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 331 298 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.27% 83.24% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 104 161
10th Percentile £311 £278 £213
25th Percentile £406 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £557 £563
90th Percentile £700 £621 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 85 195
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.56 £18.22 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £44.05 £29.65
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -4.76%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Peterborough - 2 £225 - 1
Cambridge -14 1 - - 5
Information Security
East of England

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Assurance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCTS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Def Stans
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) JSP 440
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM