Information Security Governance Contracts

Information Security Governance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Information Security Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security Governance over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 701 841
Rank change year-on-year +127 +140 -156
Contract jobs citing Information Security Governance 13 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.023% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.026% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 17
10th Percentile £494 £445 £413
25th Percentile £508 £522 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £627 £835 £625
90th Percentile £639 - £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -6.00% +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Security Governance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,760 54,632 81,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.84% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,440 37,790 57,209
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,780 1,950
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.90 £16.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.83 £75.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security Governance over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security Governance in the UK

Information Security Governance
Top 8 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 18 April 2024. 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 +127 12 £533 -23.31% 8
London +110 9 £554 -27.58% 3
Work from Home +131 5 £575 -24.84% 1
UK excluding London +49 4 £564 -6.00% 4
South East +23 2 £517 -13.92% 1
North West - 1 £650 - 1
Scotland - 1 £595 -
North of England - 1 £650 - 3

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Broadband
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Consultant
1 4 (30.77%) Information Security Consultant
1 4 (30.77%) Security Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Information Officer
2 3 (23.08%) Information Security Officer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Officer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Information Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Information Governance Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Information Governance Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Information Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Information Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Information Security
2 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) ISMS
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
5 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Due Diligence
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 2 (15.38%) Information Security Management
6 2 (15.38%) Internal Audit
6 2 (15.38%) IT Audit
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
6 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) CISSP
2 7 (53.85%) CISM
3 4 (30.77%) CISA
4 2 (15.38%) CRISC
4 2 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
4 2 (15.38%) PMP
5 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (61.54%) NIST
3 4 (30.77%) GRC
4 3 (23.08%) GDPR
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (7.69%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft