Information Security Contracts in Merseyside

Information Security (InfoSec)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 24 29 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Information Security 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.98% 1.75% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 2.23% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £203 £480 £378
25th Percentile £208 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £600 £413
Median % change year-on-year -64.17% +45.45% -25.00%
75th Percentile £223 £625 £438
90th Percentile £329 £640 £580
North West median daily rate £467 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -15.12% - -6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Merseyside.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Liverpool +6 2 £300 -50.00% 17
Information Security
North West

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (60.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Support
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Junior PMO
3 1 (20.00%) Junior PMO Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Risk Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Android
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) BCP
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Server Hardening
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) OneTrust