Information Security Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Information Security (InfoSec)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 2.47% 6.42% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 7.07% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £600
25th Percentile £388 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £601
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% -0.13% -3.87%
75th Percentile £463 - £738
90th Percentile - - £820
Devon median daily rate £425 £600 £601
% change year-on-year -29.17% -0.13% -3.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65 99 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 80.25% 90.83% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 71 117
10th Percentile £275 £313 £393
25th Percentile £309 £388 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -13.05% +2.22%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £675
90th Percentile £588 £685 £721
Devon median daily rate £400 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +8.49%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Exeter

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

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

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow