Information Security Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Information Security (InfoSec)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 0.83% 1.23% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.53% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £170 £510 -
25th Percentile £191 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £228 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -58.64% +33.33% -2.94%
75th Percentile £264 £575 £419
90th Percentile £286 £590 -
Merseyside median daily rate £228 £220 £419
% change year-on-year +3.41% -47.46% -1.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 206 131 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 85.48% 80.37% 83.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 77 74
10th Percentile £133 £143 £143
25th Percentile £163 £203 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% +9.38% -15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £545 £563
90th Percentile £634 £638 £668
Merseyside median daily rate £300 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 26
10th Percentile - £12.22 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.18 £13.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.10 £17.85 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.43% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £51.02 £25.78 £34.21
90th Percentile - £30.78 £37.18
Merseyside median hourly rate £41.86 £20.19 £17.50
% change year-on-year +107.31% +15.37% -0.17%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Liverpool over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Liverpool

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OneTrust
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow