Information Security Contracts in the East of England

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 67 87
Rank change year-on-year -33 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing Information Security 10 53 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 2.70% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 3.07% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 38 39
10th Percentile - £185 £255
25th Percentile £293 £273 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -19.32% +18.92%
75th Percentile £519 £524 £681
90th Percentile £680 £633 £725
England median daily rate £600 £620 £575
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - - £22.16
25th Percentile - £17.50 -
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year - -43.58% -13.95%
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - £25.93 -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year -74.00% +18.11% +149.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,726 2,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.08% 87.79% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 998 1,280
10th Percentile £205 £205 £187
25th Percentile £325 £326 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £677 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 332 376
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -8.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £45.05
90th Percentile £75.03 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the East of England

Information Security
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 Security within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Bedfordshire -4 4 £513 -1.44% 2
Hertfordshire -16 4 £613 +81.48% 20
Cambridgeshire -16 2 £305 -24.92% 5
Information Security
England

Information Security
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Camtasia
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Legal
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Blog
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
2 1 (10.00%) Insider Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Key Management
3 2 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security Management
4 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Security Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Storyboarding
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe