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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 573 669
Rank change year-on-year +44 +96 +174
Contract jobs citing Information Security Governance 5 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.028% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.033% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 13
10th Percentile - £481 £453
25th Percentile £244 £547 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £249 £610 £765
Median % change year-on-year -59.18% -20.26% +34.51%
75th Percentile £254 £638 £835
90th Percentile - £641 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £249 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -60.16% +4.17% -4.00%

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 27,864 36,803 49,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 85.25% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,568 23,445 34,342
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,367 2,552 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.40 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.91 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 5 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 30 June 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 +40 5 £249 -60.16% 16
England +49 3 £249 -60.16% 54
Work from Home +40 3 £249 -58.50% 14
East of England - 3 £249 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 (40.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Information Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Compliance Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Security Compliance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Compliance Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Security Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISM
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CRISC
3 1 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GRC
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (20.00%) COBIT
4 1 (20.00%) NCSC
4 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS