Information Assurance Contracts in the North of England

Information Assurance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Information Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 174 150
Rank change year-on-year -1 -24 +88
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 4 5 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.11% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 21
10th Percentile £541 - £468
25th Percentile £593 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% -8.70% +2.68%
75th Percentile £735 £550 £628
90th Percentile £768 - £775
England median daily rate £675 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +14.89% -2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £83.40
England median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £76.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +4.58% +45.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,406 3,817 4,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.65% 83.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 2,307 3,253
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 323 198
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.19 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.00 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.00 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -18.06% +33.38%
75th Percentile £44.78 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.61 £53.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Assurance in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
North West - 3 £735 - 5
Yorkshire +1 1 £538 +2.38% 1
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Performance Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) ICT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) ICT Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Assurance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Technical Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Information Assurance Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) COBIT
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft