Information Security Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Information Security (InfoSec)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Information Security 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 1.96% - 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% - 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £691
25th Percentile - - £697
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £738
75th Percentile - - £772
90th Percentile - - £774
Surrey median daily rate £475 £775 £573
% change year-on-year -38.71% +35.37% -11.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 33 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 78.43% 97.06% 78.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 45
10th Percentile £202 £241 £191
25th Percentile £247 £344 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% -7.32% +0.49%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £550
90th Percentile £517 £591 £763
Surrey median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £23.00 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £14.96
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +87.13% -
75th Percentile £69.69 - £26.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £30.30 £53.49
Surrey median hourly rate £66.99 £27.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year +143.60% +34.15% -54.44%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Guildford

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

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

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft