Information Assurance Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Information Assurance
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - £438
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 71 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 81.94% 71.00% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 95
10th Percentile £140 £296 £325
25th Percentile £200 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -13.27% +2.28%
75th Percentile £434 £488 £575
90th Percentile £575 £548 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £29.30 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £29.75 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £49.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.28% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £23.93 -
90th Percentile - £39.13 £37.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £23.00
% change year-on-year -13.42% -5.24% +29.94%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Lichfield - 1 - -
Information Assurance
West Midlands

Information Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST