Information Security Governance Contracts

Information Security Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Information Security Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security Governance over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 585 698
Rank change year-on-year +67 +113 +138
Contract jobs citing Information Security Governance 2 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.030% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.035% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 12
10th Percentile - £494 £445
25th Percentile - £508 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £554 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -9.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile - £627 £835
90th Percentile - £639 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £564 £600
% change year-on-year - -6.00% +2.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Security Governance 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Information Security Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Information Security Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Governance in the UK

Information Security Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security Governance in the UK

Information Security Governance
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Governance within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +58 2 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

Information Security Governance
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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Information Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley