Information Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 114 111
Rank change year-on-year -46 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Information Security 190 400 518
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.48% 1.94% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.32% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 223 371
10th Percentile £263 £413 £273
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +5.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £666 £653
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.83% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 27
10th Percentile - £12.75 £17.63
25th Percentile £22.14 £16.18 £28.83
Median hourly rate £26.34 £18.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.33% -76.00% +0.83%
75th Percentile £81.01 £19.75 £83.40
90th Percentile £83.82 £20.73 -
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £19.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +26.46% -74.00% +63.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 -14 58 £625 +10.13% 143
North of England -28 52 £413 -29.12% 163
North West -15 30 £400 -29.33% 98
Midlands -28 23 £400 -34.69% 65
East of England +43 20 £575 +52.32% 28
South West -27 18 £588 -2.08% 51
Scotland -19 15 £484 -14.80% 31
Yorkshire -14 14 £413 -29.12% 49
West Midlands -13 12 £400 -37.98% 35
East Midlands -1 11 £375 -6.25% 29
North East +3 8 £534 +1.71% 19
Wales +3 2 £415 -34.90% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 14
Information Security
UK

Information Security
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 18 (9.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.63%) Confluence
3 4 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (18.95%) Azure
2 22 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.42%) Entra ID
4 15 (7.89%) IaaS
5 8 (4.21%) AWS
5 8 (4.21%) PaaS
6 7 (3.68%) SaaS
7 6 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.11%) GitHub
9 4 (2.11%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.05%) OCI
10 2 (1.05%) Serverless
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.42%) Network Security
2 27 (14.21%) Firewall
3 14 (7.37%) SSL
4 13 (6.84%) DNS
4 13 (6.84%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (5.26%) FTP
5 10 (5.26%) HTTP
5 10 (5.26%) SMTP
6 7 (3.68%) Unified Communications
7 4 (2.11%) LAN
7 4 (2.11%) WAN
7 4 (2.11%) Wireless
8 3 (1.58%) DHCP
8 3 (1.58%) Internet
8 3 (1.58%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.58%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.58%) Skype
8 3 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.68%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 5 (2.63%) Power BI
4 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.05%) Tableau
5 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (2.63%) JIRA
2 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.53%) Metasploit
General
1 70 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.68%) Finance
4 20 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.42%) Legal
6 12 (6.32%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.21%) Banking
9 8 (4.21%) Police
10 7 (3.68%) Retail
11 5 (2.63%) Law
11 5 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.11%) Military
13 3 (1.58%) Marketing
13 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.05%) Local Government
14 2 (1.05%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 46 (24.21%) Analyst
2 27 (14.21%) Senior
3 20 (10.53%) Security Engineer
4 17 (8.95%) Security Manager
5 16 (8.42%) Security Analyst
6 13 (6.84%) Architect
6 13 (6.84%) Consultant
6 13 (6.84%) Information Manager
6 13 (6.84%) Security Specialist
7 10 (5.26%) Information Security Manager
7 10 (5.26%) Information Security Specialist
7 10 (5.26%) Information Specialist
7 10 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 9 (4.74%) SOC Analyst
9 8 (4.21%) Information Analyst
9 8 (4.21%) Information Security Analyst
9 8 (4.21%) Support Analyst
10 7 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Security Consultant
10 7 (3.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.84%) LDAP
2 7 (3.68%) Web Services
3 6 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.58%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.58%) X-Windows
5 2 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.05%) JBoss Seam
6 1 (0.53%) Node.js
6 1 (0.53%) OAuth
6 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.63%) Management Information System
2 19 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 15 (7.89%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (6.84%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (4.74%) Cyberattack
5 9 (4.74%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.21%) PKI
7 7 (3.68%) CSOC
8 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.11%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.58%) CESG
10 3 (1.58%) IVR
10 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.58%) Replication
11 2 (1.05%) CCTV
11 2 (1.05%) Industry 4.0
11 2 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.21%) Windows
2 17 (8.95%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.89%) Linux
4 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.11%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.58%) Android
6 3 (1.58%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.58%) Unix
7 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.53%) VMS
8 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (19.47%) Risk Management
4 27 (14.21%) Security Management
5 24 (12.63%) Decision-Making
5 24 (12.63%) Incident Response
5 24 (12.63%) Security Architecture
5 24 (12.63%) Security Operations
5 24 (12.63%) Vulnerability Management
6 23 (12.11%) Data Protection
7 19 (10.00%) Information Security Management
7 19 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
7 19 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (9.47%) Business Continuity
9 17 (8.95%) ITIL
9 17 (8.95%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 16 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (8.42%) Penetration Testing
11 15 (7.89%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.79%) SQL
3 8 (4.21%) Python
4 3 (1.58%) Bicep
4 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
4 3 (1.58%) VBA
5 1 (0.53%) C
5 1 (0.53%) C++
5 1 (0.53%) Java
5 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 46 (24.21%) CISM
3 38 (20.00%) CISSP
4 29 (15.26%) SC Cleared
5 28 (14.74%) DV Cleared
6 24 (12.63%) Degree
7 11 (5.79%) CISA
7 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 10 (5.26%) CRISC
9 8 (4.21%) Master's Degree
10 6 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.63%) CEH
11 5 (2.63%) OSCP
12 4 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (2.11%) CISMP
13 3 (1.58%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (25.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (18.42%) NIST
3 24 (12.63%) GDPR
4 21 (11.05%) GRC
5 16 (8.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (7.37%) NCSC
7 13 (6.84%) SLA
8 12 (6.32%) COBIT
9 10 (5.26%) HIPAA
9 10 (5.26%) PCI DSS
10 8 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (4.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (2.63%) NIST 800
12 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (2.11%) SOC 2
13 3 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (1.58%) PMO
14 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
14 2 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 22 (11.58%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.74%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (4.21%) vSphere
4 6 (3.16%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.11%) OPNET
3 3 (1.58%) Puppet
3 3 (1.58%) Terraform
3 3 (1.58%) WSUS
4 2 (1.05%) CASB
Vendors
1 56 (29.47%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.37%) VMware
3 10 (5.26%) Cisco
4 8 (4.21%) Oracle
4 8 (4.21%) Veeam
5 5 (2.63%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.63%) HP
6 4 (2.11%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.11%) Darktrace
6 4 (2.11%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.58%) Apple
7 3 (1.58%) Qualys
7 3 (1.58%) Varonis
8 2 (1.05%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.53%) Netskope
9 1 (0.53%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.53%) Twitter
9 1 (0.53%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.53%) Zscaler