Information Assurance Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

Information Assurance
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hatfield requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 3.75% 3.85% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £553 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +10.60% -11.11% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hatfield

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 Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 20 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 100.00% 76.92% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 6 31
10th Percentile £105 £325 £200
25th Percentile £477 £438 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £440
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +19.32% -12.00%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £538
90th Percentile £704 £594 £600
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £425 £531
% change year-on-year +24.24% -20.00% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 10 14
10th Percentile £14.80 £12.94 £12.34
25th Percentile £16.45 £14.59 £13.16
Median hourly rate £17.30 £15.22 £14.45
Median % change year-on-year +13.67% +5.33% -6.77%
75th Percentile £18.38 £16.13 £17.00
90th Percentile £19.91 £16.71 £17.72
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.20% -3.85% +8.33%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in Hatfield

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Hatfield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing Information Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing Information Assurance

Information Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) OSINT
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Success Factor
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Computacenter