Information Officer Contracts

Information Officer
UK

The median Information Officer daily rate in the UK is £448, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 545 692
Rank change year-on-year +33 +147 +124
Contract jobs requiring an Information Officer 8 37 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.085% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.092% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 19
10th Percentile £231 £196 £298
25th Percentile £267 £205 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.76% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £627 £533 £575
90th Percentile £653 £578 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -10.50% -0.99% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 1
10th Percentile £27.78 - -
25th Percentile £28.00 - £18.70
Median hourly rate £28.36 £12.25 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year +131.47% -35.19% -3.08%
75th Percentile £28.71 £15.28 £19.10
90th Percentile £28.93 £16.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.64 £12.25 £18.90
% change year-on-year +125.63% -35.19% +19.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Information Officer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Officer in the UK

Information Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Officer.

Daily rate trend for Information Officer in the UK

Information Officer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Officer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Officer in the UK

Information Officer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Officer.

Hourly rate trend for Information Officer in the UK

Information Officer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Officer within the UK 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
England +38 7 £613 +53.13% 165
UK excluding London +51 5 £448 -10.50% 179
Work from Home +34 4 £279 -0.45% 98
South East +42 3 £275 -51.46% 39
London +25 2 £613 +56.05% 15
South West - 2 £650 - 20

Information Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Information 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 featuring Information Officer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) GDPR
2 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (37.50%) Local Government
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (25.00%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (25.00%) Information Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Law
4 2 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) CISSP
4 2 (25.00%) NHS
5 1 (12.50%) OLE
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) CISM
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) VBA
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) HNC
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (12.50%) MS Access
5 1 (12.50%) ERP

Information Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MS Access
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Power Query
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (37.50%) Local Government
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (25.00%) Freedom of Information Act
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Information Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) HNC
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (12.50%) Def Stans
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (12.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle