Information Assurance Contract Job Trends in Preston

Information Assurance
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £783 - -
25th Percentile £803 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £835 - -
75th Percentile £868 - -
90th Percentile £887 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £770 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 50 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 84.71% 89.29% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 18
10th Percentile £250 £391 £350
25th Percentile £417 £481 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +18.67% +7.46%
75th Percentile £680 £563 £519
90th Percentile £721 £633 £593
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 24
10th Percentile £31.07 £27.02 £11.77
25th Percentile £39.53 £30.40 £20.58
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.52 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.06% -31.75% +11.18%
75th Percentile £45.84 £37.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.86 £55.71 £54.06
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +11.18%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in Preston

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Assurance in Preston over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Information Assurance in Preston

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Information Assurance jobs