Information Assurance Contracts in the South East

Information Assurance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 177 173
Rank change year-on-year +40 -4 +87
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Information Assurance 28 3 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 0.062% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.075% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 23
10th Percentile £553 £456 £463
25th Percentile £601 £503 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £694 £728 £631
90th Percentile £746 £779 £698
England median daily rate £675 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £69.13
25th Percentile £51.25 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £72.40
75th Percentile £87.25 - £74.25
90th Percentile £87.40 - £81.07
England median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,163 3,975 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.65% 82.50% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,417 3,383
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £671 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 315 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.41 £26.25 £21.23
Median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +96.08%
75th Percentile £52.90 £70.09 £64.31
90th Percentile £71.14 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the South East

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Assurance in the South East over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Assurance in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Assurance in the South East over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Assurance in the South East

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley - 15 £675 - 5
Berkshire - 13 £675 - 2
Hampshire +25 11 £625 -19.35% 4
Surrey +12 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £620 - 2
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Security Specialist
2 7 (25.00%) Consultant
2 7 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) Information Specialist
4 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Information Security Specialist
5 4 (14.29%) Security Advisor
5 4 (14.29%) Security Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (7.14%) Information Assurance Specialist
6 2 (7.14%) Information Security Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Information Security Risk Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Risk Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Information Security Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Security Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Information Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) CESG
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 18 (64.29%) Security Architecture
3 13 (46.43%) Information Security
4 12 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 11 (39.29%) Agile
6 10 (35.71%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
7 7 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 7 (25.00%) ISMS
8 5 (17.86%) Scrum
8 5 (17.86%) Security Testing
9 3 (10.71%) Analytical Thinking
9 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
9 3 (10.71%) Information Security Management
9 3 (10.71%) Security Management
9 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (10.71%) Validation
9 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 24 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) CISM
4 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
5 4 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (14.29%) CISSP
6 2 (7.14%) CEH
7 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (35.71%) NCSC
3 7 (25.00%) NIST
4 5 (17.86%) NIST 800
4 5 (17.86%) RMADS
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Darktrace
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle