Information Assurance Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Information Assurance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 113 133
Rank change year-on-year -62 +20 +22
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.16% 0.15% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.17% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £525 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.84%
75th Percentile £575 - £447
90th Percentile - - £449
England median daily rate £600 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £61.50 £62.47
% change year-on-year +38.22% -1.56% -25.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,500 1,736 2,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.04% 87.99% 82.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 1,137 1,479
10th Percentile £300 £200 £235
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.06%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £656 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 91 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.66 £13.60
Median hourly rate £24.25 £18.77 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.23% +1.43% -7.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.08 £34.56
90th Percentile £70.59 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Information Assurance

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Information Assurance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Information Assurance

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Assurance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
East Midlands -26 5 - -
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 3
Information Assurance
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) SaaS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Police
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (28.57%) Aviation
3 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Information Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Information Assurance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Information Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Compliance Audit
3 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Matrix Management
4 2 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) NIST