Information Security Contracts in Kent

Information Security (InfoSec)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.90% 3.96% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 6.02% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £303 £473 £684
25th Percentile £363 £501 £791
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £529 £863
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -38.70% +38.00%
75th Percentile £588 £540 £888
90th Percentile £648 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £540 £610
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.48% +10.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 133 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 90.48% 65.84% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 126
10th Percentile £199 £205 £122
25th Percentile £213 £263 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +21.43% -19.08%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £514
90th Percentile £688 £656 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £14.68 £11.47 £36.85
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.00 £41.16
Median hourly rate £21.43 £35.50 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.63% -32.09% +47.07%
75th Percentile £22.61 £46.87 £57.44
90th Percentile £51.55 £62.96 £62.25
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Kent

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Kent.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Kent

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Kent over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Kent

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Officer
2 1 (50.00%) Information Officer
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Officer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) SABSA
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) SANS
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001