Information Security Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Information Security Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security Management over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 356 380
Rank change year-on-year +38 +24 +74
Contract jobs citing Information Security Management 20 22 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 43
10th Percentile £550 £473 £463
25th Percentile £575 £486 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £706 £597 £677
90th Percentile £788 £674 £730
UK median daily rate £640 £604 £597
% change year-on-year +5.96% +1.26% +8.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Information Security Management 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,628 17,095 20,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.68% 83.93% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,259 10,219 14,066
10th Percentile £234 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 824 2,090 1,248
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.37 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.19 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.63
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

Information Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Management in the UK excluding London

Information Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security Management in the UK excluding London

Information Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security Management in the UK excluding London

Information Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security Management in the UK excluding London

Information Security Management
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 Security Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +42 12 £650 +30.00% 67
North East - 5 - - 11
North of England - 5 - - 56
Midlands - 2 £800 - 23
West Midlands - 2 £800 - 11
East of England +25 1 £249 - 17
Information Security Management
UK

Information Security Management
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Security Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Head of Security
3 2 (10.00%) Report Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (5.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Information Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Information Security
1 20 (100.00%) Security Management
2 10 (50.00%) ISMS
3 8 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) ITIL
7 3 (15.00%) OWASP
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) CISM
2 5 (25.00%) CISSP
3 3 (15.00%) CISA
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) CEH
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
5 1 (5.00%) ISACA
5 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.00%) OSCP
5 1 (5.00%) SANS
5 1 (5.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (55.00%) NIST
3 7 (35.00%) COBIT
4 6 (30.00%) GDPR
5 3 (15.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (10.00%) GRC
6 2 (10.00%) ISO 9001
7 1 (5.00%) NCSC
7 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
7 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco
1 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 5 (25.00%) HP
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (25.00%) Veeam
1 5 (25.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle