Information Security Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Information Security (InfoSec)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Information Security 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.78% - 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% - 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £650
75th Percentile - - £775
90th Percentile - - £835
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -30.77% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £16.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.00 - £15.89

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 86 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 95.27% 88.66% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 55 129
10th Percentile £228 £334 £345
25th Percentile £306 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% - -
75th Percentile £538 £581 £563
90th Percentile £630 £626 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £28.06 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.86% +2.98% +53.78%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Coventry

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Audio Visual Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft