Information Security Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Information Security (InfoSec)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 43 27 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.67% 3.35% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 4.35% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £170 - £407
25th Percentile £191 £208 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £228 £220 £419
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -47.46% -1.47%
75th Percentile £264 £434 £433
90th Percentile £286 £550 £436
North West median daily rate £470 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - £20.19 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.37% -
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £22.09 £26.84
% change year-on-year +89.86% -17.68% -67.82%

All Process & 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 241 161 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.60% 77.03% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 91 92
10th Percentile £133 £145 £155
25th Percentile £155 £204 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £550
90th Percentile £637 £638 £636
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 28
10th Percentile - £12.43 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.18 £13.70 £15.50
Median hourly rate £41.86 £20.19 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.31% +15.37% -0.17%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.00 £34.21
90th Percentile - £29.67 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £31.51 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.10% +5.03% -19.57%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Merseyside

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

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 4 February 2026. 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
Liverpool -9 2 £228 -58.64% 3
Information Security
North West

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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