Information Assurance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 307 294 413
Rank change year-on-year -13 +119 -94
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 84 167 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.69% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.77% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 99 73
10th Percentile £443 £450 £465
25th Percentile £522 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £628 £688 £763
90th Percentile £683 £738 £798
UK median daily rate £575 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 25 11
10th Percentile £52.70 £62.75 £60.92
25th Percentile £52.90 £72.50 £61.59
Median hourly rate £58.72 £76.50 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% +16.26% +13.76%
75th Percentile £63.08 £83.40 £68.53
90th Percentile £63.29 - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £61.65 £76.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +70.79% -21.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,650 27,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.55% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,595 15,013 19,156
10th Percentile £243 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,330 1,375
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.17 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the UK excluding London

Information Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in the UK excluding London

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Assurance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Assurance in the UK excluding London

Information Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Information Assurance in the UK excluding London

Information Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West -12 56 £550 -4.35% 18
South East +6 17 £615 -0.81% 8
North of England +5 6 £525 -12.50% 1
Yorkshire +24 3 £525 -
West Midlands +23 2 £438 -9.79% 1
Scotland +23 2 £525 -23.64%
Midlands +19 2 £438 -10.71% 1
North East - 2 £525 -
East of England +6 1 £575 +6.98% 2
North West -11 1 - - 1
Information Assurance
UK

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.38%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (3.57%) SaaS
3 1 (1.19%) AWS
3 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.19%) Azure Stack
3 1 (1.19%) GitHub
3 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.19%) IaaS
3 1 (1.19%) PaaS
3 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) WAN
2 4 (4.76%) Firewall
2 4 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.38%) 4G
3 2 (2.38%) 5G
3 2 (2.38%) Network Security
3 2 (2.38%) VoIP
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.19%) DHCP
4 1 (1.19%) DNS
4 1 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.19%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 9 (10.71%) Legal
4 7 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.76%) Electronics
6 4 (4.76%) Finance
6 4 (4.76%) Marketing
6 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.38%) Military
8 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (25.00%) Architect
2 16 (19.05%) Analyst
3 13 (15.48%) Consultant
4 12 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
5 10 (11.90%) Information Manager
5 10 (11.90%) Lead
6 8 (9.52%) Information Security Manager
6 8 (9.52%) Lead Architect
6 8 (9.52%) Security Manager
7 7 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (7.14%) Information Assurance Manager
8 6 (7.14%) Security Consultant
9 5 (5.95%) Information Assurance Consultant
9 5 (5.95%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (5.95%) Network Architect
9 5 (5.95%) Security Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Security Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Security Officer
10 4 (4.76%) Security Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) SOAP
1 3 (3.57%) XML
2 1 (1.19%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) CESG
1 8 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 6 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.95%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.38%) iPad
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Linux
1 4 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (33.33%) Information Security
3 12 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 12 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 12 (14.29%) SIEM
3 12 (14.29%) SOAR
3 12 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 11 (13.10%) Risk Management
5 10 (11.90%) Project Delivery
6 9 (10.71%) Business Strategy
6 9 (10.71%) Systems Engineering
7 8 (9.52%) Information Management
7 8 (9.52%) PLM
7 8 (9.52%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (8.33%) DevOps
9 6 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (5.95%) ArchiMate
10 5 (5.95%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (5.95%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 5 (5.95%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.19%) Bash
1 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 40 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 36 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 17 (20.24%) CISSP
5 13 (15.48%) CISM
6 12 (14.29%) CISA
7 8 (9.52%) CEH
7 8 (9.52%) CISMP
7 8 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (9.52%) ISACA
7 8 (9.52%) SSCP
8 5 (5.95%) CESG Certified Professional
8 5 (5.95%) CLAS
9 4 (4.76%) Degree
9 4 (4.76%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (22.62%) NIST
3 11 (13.10%) GDPR
3 11 (13.10%) HIPAA
4 8 (9.52%) NCSC
4 8 (9.52%) PCI DSS
5 6 (7.14%) JSP 440
5 6 (7.14%) RMADS
6 5 (5.95%) Def Stans
7 4 (4.76%) COBIT
7 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (4.76%) PMO
8 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.19%) Packer
2 1 (1.19%) Puppet
2 1 (1.19%) SCCM
2 1 (1.19%) SCOM
2 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (1.19%) Cisco
3 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.19%) VMware