Information Security Contracts in Central London

Information Security (InfoSec)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 81 110
Rank change year-on-year +12 +29 -23
Contract jobs citing Information Security 70 102 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.86% 2.65% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.89% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 70 61
10th Percentile £376 £490 £400
25th Percentile £481 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £669 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +21.59% -
75th Percentile £713 £798 £650
90th Percentile £875 £839 £750
London median daily rate £600 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
75th Percentile £18.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £24.59 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -38.53% +45.45% +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 3,532 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.62% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 2,396 3,180
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £19.36 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Central London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Central London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Central London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Central London

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
City of London +22 65 £631 -4.72% 11
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £196 -
West End of London +2 2 £275 -65.63%
Information Security
London

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) Apache
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.43%) IIS
2 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.14%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.43%) AWS
4 6 (8.57%) SaaS
5 4 (5.71%) GCP
6 3 (4.29%) GitHub
6 3 (4.29%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.43%) Akamai
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.43%) IaaS
8 1 (1.43%) PaaS
8 1 (1.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) Firewall
1 7 (10.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) DHCP
3 1 (1.43%) Internet
3 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.43%) Big Data
2 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.43%) Redis
2 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) AppScan
2 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.43%) RStudio
2 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 33 (47.14%) Finance
2 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.57%) Legal
5 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Law
6 4 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.29%) Local Government
8 2 (2.86%) Advertising
8 2 (2.86%) Back Office
8 2 (2.86%) Front Office
8 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.43%) Billing
9 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.43%) Marketing
9 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Police
9 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Consultant
2 15 (21.43%) Security Consultant
3 12 (17.14%) Analyst
4 11 (15.71%) Information Security Consultant
5 7 (10.00%) Senior
6 6 (8.57%) Information Security Officer
6 6 (8.57%) Security Officer
7 5 (7.14%) Lead
7 5 (7.14%) Security Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Information Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Information Officer
8 4 (5.71%) Information Security Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Product Owner
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Product Owner
9 3 (4.29%) Security Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
10 2 (2.86%) IT Administrator
10 2 (2.86%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.43%) Kafka
1 1 (1.43%) LDAP
1 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Blog
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) EPoS
5 1 (1.43%) iPad
5 1 (1.43%) iPhone
5 1 (1.43%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) SCORM
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (22.86%) Risk Management
3 13 (18.57%) Agile
4 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (12.86%) Business Case
5 9 (12.86%) Cloud Security
5 9 (12.86%) Project Management
5 9 (12.86%) Security Architecture
6 8 (11.43%) Change Management
6 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 7 (10.00%) Due Diligence
7 7 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (10.00%) Information Security Management
7 7 (10.00%) Security Management
8 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (8.57%) Incident Response
8 6 (8.57%) Information Security Governance
8 6 (8.57%) SIEM
8 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.29%) Python
2 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.43%) Bash
3 1 (1.43%) Go
3 1 (1.43%) Java
3 1 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.43%) R
3 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) CISSP
2 10 (14.29%) CISM
3 9 (12.86%) Degree
4 6 (8.57%) CRISC
5 3 (4.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.29%) CCSK
5 3 (4.29%) CISA
5 3 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.29%) GIAC
5 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) GCIA
6 2 (2.86%) GCIH
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.43%) SANS
7 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.00%) NIST
2 18 (25.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (11.43%) GRC
4 7 (10.00%) PCI DSS
5 5 (7.14%) GDPR
5 5 (7.14%) QA
6 4 (5.71%) NCSC
6 4 (5.71%) NIST 800
7 3 (4.29%) ISO 31000
7 3 (4.29%) SLA
8 2 (2.86%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.43%) COBIT
9 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.43%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.86%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) SCCM
2 3 (4.29%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) Nessus
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) CSIRT
3 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.86%) Grafana
3 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.86%) Puppet
3 2 (2.86%) QRadar
4 1 (1.43%) Graylog
4 1 (1.43%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.43%) Kibana
4 1 (1.43%) logstash
4 1 (1.43%) Nagios
4 1 (1.43%) Packer
4 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (4.29%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) Apple
3 2 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (2.86%) Citrix
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.86%) VMware
4 1 (1.43%) Adobe
4 1 (1.43%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.43%) IBM
4 1 (1.43%) Netskope
4 1 (1.43%) New Relic
4 1 (1.43%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.43%) SAP
4 1 (1.43%) Splunk
4 1 (1.43%) Veracode
4 1 (1.43%) Zscaler