Information Security Contract Job Trends in the North East

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 39 32
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 +33
Contract jobs citing Information Security 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.84% 1.52% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.69% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £470 - £175
25th Percentile £500 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £275
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -42.11%
75th Percentile - - £338
90th Percentile - - £375
England median daily rate £536 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.63% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 406 296 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.94% 90.24% 82.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 155 139
10th Percentile £176 £307 £188
25th Percentile £363 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £589 £575
90th Percentile £588 £665 £631
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 44
10th Percentile £17.20 £13.84 £11.50
25th Percentile £30.68 £15.06 £12.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.50 £15.73
Median % change year-on-year +218.18% +4.90% -56.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £63.75 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in the North East

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Information Security

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Information Security

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Tyne and Wear -15 3 £500 - 4
Durham +3 1 £550 -
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) DataOps
2 1 (25.00%) Deadline-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISA
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Workday