Information Security Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Information Security (InfoSec)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 29 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 -14
Contract jobs citing Information Security 7 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.87% 1.23% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 1.44% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -12.50% -11.11%
North East median daily rate £534 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.71% -12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £23.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

Information Security 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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Tyne and Wear

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Tyne and Wear

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Tyne and Wear

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -5 7 £534 +1.71% 16
Information Security
North East

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
General
1 5 (71.43%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Security Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Project Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security Management
1 5 (71.43%) ISMS
1 5 (71.43%) Security Management
1 5 (71.43%) Zero Trust
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (28.57%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Fortinet
2 5 (71.43%) HP
2 5 (71.43%) Veeam
2 5 (71.43%) VMware