Information Security Officer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security Officer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Security Officer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 388 452
Rank change year-on-year +57 +64 +58
Contract jobs requiring an Information Security Officer 3 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.029% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.031% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £332 £510 £601
25th Percentile £436 £525 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £567 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -7.51% +2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £600 £628
90th Percentile £666 - £634
UK median daily rate £620 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +12.73% -24.14% +26.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Information Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Information Security Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

Information Security Officer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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

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

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

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

Information Security Officer
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 Officer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +32 2 £448 -21.01% 3
South West - 1 £650 -
Information Security Officer
UK

Information Security Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Information Security Officer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Information Security Officer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) NHS
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (33.33%) CEH
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) PMO
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance

Information Security Officer Skill Set
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 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) CEH
3 1 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) Def Stans
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle