Information Assurance Contracts in the East of England

Information Assurance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Information Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 104 111
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 9 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.73% 0.12% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.14% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £85 - £380
25th Percentile £85 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £86 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -85.00% +15.00% -20.79%
75th Percentile £88 £588 £578
90th Percentile £88 - £584
England median daily rate £675 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +14.89% -2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £86.25 - -
25th Percentile £90.13 - -
Median hourly rate £91.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +45.45% -18.52%
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £76.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +4.58% +16.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,093 1,434 1,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.43% 83.57% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 572 991
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £368 £306 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 529 352
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.92 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £66.63 £60.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the East of England

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in the East of England

Information Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Information Assurance in the East of England

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Bedfordshire +3 9 £86 - 1
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

General
1 9 (100.00%) Military
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Lead
1 9 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 9 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 9 (100.00%) Key Management
1 9 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 9 (100.00%) Security Management
2 8 (88.89%) MODAF
2 8 (88.89%) SABSA
3 5 (55.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 9 (100.00%) NCSC
1 9 (100.00%) NIST
1 9 (100.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Firmware