Information Security Contracts in Hampshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +38
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Information Security 14 46 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.41% 3.06% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 3.81% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 35 37
10th Percentile £534 £452 £273
25th Percentile £566 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £728 £688 £629
90th Percentile £779 £690 £681
South East median daily rate £625 £560 £575
% change year-on-year +11.61% -2.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South East median hourly rate £85.75 £57.50 £72.40
% change year-on-year +49.13% -20.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 1,206 1,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.87% 80.35% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 735 654
10th Percentile £314 £371 £260
25th Percentile £456 £457 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +10.48% +0.68%
75th Percentile £600 £670 £613
90th Percentile £656 £738 £685
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 122 109
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.92 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.27 £51.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +18.67%
75th Percentile £58.72 £74.69 £64.63
90th Percentile £74.25 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +96.08%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Hampshire

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Hampshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Hampshire

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Information Security

Information Security
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southampton +6 6 £725 - 6
Basingstoke +7 2 £575 +13.30% 6
Havant - 2 £650 -
Winchester +5 1 £550 -2.22% 3
Portsmouth -22 1 £750 +15.38% 6
Information Security
South East

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Security Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Junior
4 2 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Junior Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Information Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Report Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Security Compliance Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) SIEM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ISMS
2 5 (35.71%) Information Security Management
2 5 (35.71%) Security Management
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Logistics
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Information Assurance
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team Management
6 1 (7.14%) Business Transformation
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.14%) Regulatory Change
6 1 (7.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bicep
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISMP
1 4 (28.57%) GSEC
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) CISM
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
3 2 (14.29%) COBIT
3 2 (14.29%) NIST
4 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Zscaler