Information Security Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Information Security (InfoSec)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 67 55
Rank change year-on-year -23 -12 +53
Contract jobs citing Information Security 35 52 80
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.90% 2.80% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.04% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 64
10th Percentile £422 £433 £463
25th Percentile £472 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £619
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -3.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £684 £648 £700
90th Percentile £919 £793 £796
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -8.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,641 1,710 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.18% 91.98% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,038 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £792 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £574
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.22% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -25.00%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in the City of London

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Security

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the City of London

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Security

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) GCP
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 5 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (11.43%) Network Security
4 2 (5.71%) Modbus
5 1 (2.86%) LAN
5 1 (2.86%) SSH
5 1 (2.86%) WAN
5 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Legal
3 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Back Office
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Category Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Information Security Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) IT Manager
4 3 (8.57%) IT Security Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Security Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Service Designer
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) OpenID
1 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.71%) Insider Threat
4 2 (5.71%) Life Science
4 2 (5.71%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.71%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (5.71%) SCADA
5 1 (2.86%) CMDB
5 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.86%) PKI
5 1 (2.86%) Tandem
5 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (17.14%) Data Protection
3 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 5 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 5 (14.29%) Security Management
5 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (11.43%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (11.43%) FinOps
5 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (11.43%) Incident Response
5 4 (11.43%) ITIL
5 4 (11.43%) Remediation Plan
5 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) CISSP
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 9 (25.71%) CISM
3 7 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (14.29%) CRISC
4 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) CISA
5 3 (8.57%) GSEC
6 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.71%) CASP
6 2 (5.71%) CCNA
6 2 (5.71%) CCNP
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.86%) ISACA
7 1 (2.86%) SANS
7 1 (2.86%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.43%) GRC
2 4 (11.43%) NIST
3 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (8.57%) GDPR
4 2 (5.71%) COBIT
4 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (5.71%) ITGC
4 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (2.86%) ISO 9001
5 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.86%) NCSC
5 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Ariba
3 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.71%) Rockwell
4 2 (5.71%) Tenable
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) VMware