Information Security Contracts in the South East

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 92 99
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Information Security 123 138 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.21% 2.36% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.64% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 92 121
10th Percentile £413 £350 £313
25th Percentile £474 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +8.91%
75th Percentile £623 £689 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £713
England median daily rate £582 £618 £575
% change year-on-year -5.75% +7.39% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £18.00 £71.76 -
25th Percentile £18.94 £72.60 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.65% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £74.40 -
90th Percentile - £74.63 -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -74.00% +11.11% +164.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Information Security 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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,729 5,219 6,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.98% 89.43% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 3,621 4,692
10th Percentile £238 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 221 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.15
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Contract 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 Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Thames Valley +9 70 £525 -16.00% 46
Berkshire -31 39 £525 -17.32% 33
Hampshire -3 35 £582 +10.86% 23
Buckinghamshire +40 16 £500 -20.00% 6
Oxfordshire +15 15 £615 +23.00% 7
Surrey +12 9 £600 -7.69% 10
Kent +9 8 £529 -38.70% 2
East Sussex -1 1 £475 -32.14% 3
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 3 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.01%) Azure
2 9 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.69%) AWS
4 4 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.25%) SaaS
5 3 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.44%) IaaS
5 3 (2.44%) PaaS
6 2 (1.63%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.81%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.70%) Network Security
2 17 (13.82%) Firewall
3 7 (5.69%) LAN
3 7 (5.69%) VPN
3 7 (5.69%) WAN
4 6 (4.88%) Wireless
5 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.63%) DNS
6 2 (1.63%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.63%) SAN
6 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.81%) Broadband
7 1 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.81%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) Android Studio
2 1 (0.81%) MSI
2 1 (0.81%) Postman
2 1 (0.81%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.81%) Selenium
2 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.81%) WebDriver
2 1 (0.81%) Xcode
General
1 38 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Legal
3 17 (13.82%) Finance
4 15 (12.20%) Telecoms
5 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (8.94%) Law
7 6 (4.88%) Marketing
7 6 (4.88%) Police
7 6 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.25%) Retail
10 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (17.07%) Consultant
2 15 (12.20%) Security Consultant
3 14 (11.38%) Lead
4 11 (8.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 10 (8.13%) Senior
6 8 (6.50%) Analyst
7 7 (5.69%) Architect
7 7 (5.69%) Information Security Specialist
7 7 (5.69%) Information Specialist
7 7 (5.69%) Security Specialist
8 6 (4.88%) Business Process Trainer
8 6 (4.88%) Information Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Information Security Consultant
8 6 (4.88%) Information Security Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Information Security Officer
8 6 (4.88%) IT Trainer
8 6 (4.88%) Security Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Security Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.81%) .NET
1 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
1 1 (0.81%) HTML
1 1 (0.81%) JSON
1 1 (0.81%) RESTful
1 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (29.27%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 12 (9.76%) Cyber Defence
3 12 (9.76%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (8.94%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.88%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.07%) PMI
7 3 (2.44%) Wiki
8 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.63%) PKI
9 1 (0.81%) CSOC
9 1 (0.81%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.81%) Robotics
9 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.76%) Windows
2 6 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.07%) Linux
4 3 (2.44%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.63%) Android
5 2 (1.63%) Solaris
5 2 (1.63%) Unix
6 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.81%) MVS
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.65%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (17.89%) Incident Management
2 22 (17.89%) Risk Management
3 20 (16.26%) SIEM
3 20 (16.26%) Vulnerability Management
4 19 (15.45%) Incident Response
4 19 (15.45%) Information Security Management
4 19 (15.45%) Security Management
5 18 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
6 16 (13.01%) Mentoring
7 15 (12.20%) ITIL
8 14 (11.38%) Use Case
9 13 (10.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 13 (10.57%) Data Protection
9 13 (10.57%) Threat Intelligence
10 12 (9.76%) Business Continuity
10 12 (9.76%) Case Management
10 12 (9.76%) CRM
10 12 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (9.76%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.88%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.63%) AWK
2 2 (1.63%) Bourne shell
2 2 (1.63%) Korn
2 2 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (1.63%) Perl
2 2 (1.63%) Python
2 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.81%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.82%) DV Cleared
3 15 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.94%) CISM
4 11 (8.94%) CISSP
5 8 (6.50%) Degree
5 8 (6.50%) ISACA
6 6 (4.88%) CCNP
6 6 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.88%) ISEB
6 6 (4.88%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.25%) CCNA
8 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.63%) CCSK
9 2 (1.63%) CCSP
9 2 (1.63%) CEH
9 2 (1.63%) CRISC
9 2 (1.63%) RHCE
9 2 (1.63%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.58%) NIST
2 18 (14.63%) GDPR
3 16 (13.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (11.38%) NIST 800
5 11 (8.94%) COBIT
6 7 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (5.69%) PCI DSS
6 7 (5.69%) SLA
7 5 (4.07%) Accessibility
7 5 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (2.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.81%) IASME
9 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.81%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.81%) NCSC
9 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Nessus
2 3 (2.44%) Ansible
2 3 (2.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (2.44%) SCCM
3 2 (1.63%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.63%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.63%) yum
4 1 (0.81%) Terraform
4 1 (0.81%) WMI
4 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (34.96%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.94%) Cisco
3 8 (6.50%) VMware
4 5 (4.07%) Reuters
5 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.63%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.63%) Citrix
6 2 (1.63%) EMC
6 2 (1.63%) Google
6 2 (1.63%) Juniper
6 2 (1.63%) Meraki
6 2 (1.63%) Splunk
6 2 (1.63%) Veritas
7 1 (0.81%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) Netskope
7 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.81%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) Zscaler