Information Security Contract Job Trends

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	203	158	111
Rank change year-on-year	-45	-47	-13
Contract jobs citing Information Security	817	610	782
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	1.49%	1.78%	2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.74%	1.97%	2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted	443	325	479
10^th Percentile	£313	£328	£400
25^th Percentile	£425	£418	£495
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£582
Median % change year-on-year	-	-5.50%	+1.22%
75^th Percentile	£650	£675	£690
90^th Percentile	£751	£783	£803
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£575
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-17.39%	+2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted	88	60	20
10^th Percentile	£14.22	£18.69	£15.20
25^th Percentile	£21.35	£20.71	£15.73
Median hourly rate	£62.25	£32.11	£21.55
Median % change year-on-year	+93.85%	+49.05%	-61.87%
75^th Percentile	£80.00	£45.00	£37.25
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£75.75	£46.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£62.25	£29.51	£22.09
% change year-on-year	+110.95%	+33.59%	-69.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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 citing process or methodology skills.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	46,868	30,907	31,690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	85.58%	90.41%	86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	28,145	19,277	19,079
10^th Percentile	£325	£300	£310
25^th Percentile	£425	£404	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-2.33%
75^th Percentile	£638	£620	£638
90^th Percentile	£738	£725	£738
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	3,604	1,970	1,136
10^th Percentile	£13.50	£14.38	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£16.50	£17.30	£20.12
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£25.15	£37.00
Median % change year-on-year	+39.17%	-32.03%	-15.64%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£42.78	£65.00
90^th Percentile	£80.00	£66.55	£73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£35.00	£22.27	£36.00
% change year-on-year	+57.20%	-38.15%	-15.29%

Information Security Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Information Security Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Information Security.

Information Security Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security over the 6 months to 29 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the UK

Information Security Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Information Security.

Information Security Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security over the 6 months to 29 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in the UK

Information Security Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 October 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-35	736	£550	-	236
UK excluding London	-22	423	£500	+5.26%	183
London	-34	330	£590	+2.43%	89
Work from Home	-60	204	£550	+10.00%	103
North of England	-9	140	£475	+0.90%	54
South East	-42	96	£513	-18.00%	43
North West	-15	84	£525	+21.04%	18
Midlands	-16	72	£449	+12.13%	20
West Midlands	+9	63	£447	-0.67%	14
South West	-23	54	£608	+31.51%	39
Yorkshire	-22	40	£525	+6.33%	16
Scotland	-10	35	£590	+38.82%	10
East of England	-19	33	£538	+13.16%	8
North East	-27	16	£425	-22.73%	20
East Midlands	-35	9	£616	+54.06%	6
Wales	-10	5	£500	-18.37%	4
Northern Ireland	-	1	£550	-	7

Information Security Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Information Security also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing Information Security.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	37.7%	308
2	Risk Management	30.2%	247
3	Stakeholder Management	28.9%	236
4	Microsoft	26.3%	215
5	ISO/IEC 27001	25.1%	205
6	Azure	22.9%	187
7	Security Cleared	22.4%	183
8	Data Protection	21.1%	172
9	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	159
10	CISSP	19.2%	157
11	SC Cleared	17.0%	139
12	NIST	16.8%	137
13	GDPR	15.9%	130
14	Agile	15.8%	129
15	AWS	15.5%	127
16	Degree	15.3%	125
17	Incident Response	14.4%	118
17	Vulnerability Management	14.4%	118
19	GRC	14.2%	116
19	Problem-Solving	14.2%	116
21	Stakeholder Engagement	13.1%	107
22	Cloud Security	13.0%	106
23	CISM	12.9%	105
24	Security Operations	12.2%	100
25	Security Architecture	11.6%	95
26	AI	11.4%	93
27	Roadmaps	11.3%	92
28	DevOps	10.3%	84
29	Decision-Making	9.7%	79
30	CI/CD	9.4%	77

Information Security Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	37.7%	308
2	Risk Management	30.2%	247
3	Stakeholder Management	28.9%	236
4	Data Protection	21.1%	172
5	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	159
6	Agile	15.8%	129
7	Incident Response	14.4%	118
7	Vulnerability Management	14.4%	118
9	Problem-Solving	14.2%	116
10	Stakeholder Engagement	13.1%	107
11	Cloud Security	13.0%	106
12	Security Operations	12.2%	100
13	Security Architecture	11.6%	95
14	AI	11.4%	93
15	Roadmaps	11.3%	92
16	DevOps	10.3%	84
17	Decision-Making	9.7%	79
18	CI/CD	9.4%	77
19	ITIL	9.1%	74
20	SIEM	8.9%	73