Information Assurance Contracts in Scotland

Information Assurance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Information Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Assurance over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 163 168
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.090% 0.14% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.15% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £666 -
25th Percentile £513 £672 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £688 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +37.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £538 £697 £544
90th Percentile - £699 £570
UK median daily rate £575 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Information Assurance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,973 2,636 3,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.67% 92.62% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,899 2,324
10th Percentile £245 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £409 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 54 50
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.11 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -42.51% -27.59%
75th Percentile £44.47 £54.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.20 £67.22 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in Scotland

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in Scotland

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +7 1 £525 -23.64%
Renfrewshire -1 1 - -
Information Assurance
UK

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft