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 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	201	168	114
Rank change year-on-year	-33	-54	-17
Contract jobs citing Information Security	810	606	766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	1.46%	1.75%	2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.71%	1.94%	2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted	442	320	473
10^th Percentile	£314	£339	£400
25^th Percentile	£425	£423	£490
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	£788	£800
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£579
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-17.89%	+3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted	89	65	20
10^th Percentile	£14.30	£18.82	£15.20
25^th Percentile	£21.35	£20.71	£15.73
Median hourly rate	£62.25	£32.74	£21.55
Median % change year-on-year	+90.16%	+51.94%	-59.54%
75^th Percentile	£80.00	£45.00	£37.25
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£80.54	£46.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£62.25	£29.51	£22.09
% change year-on-year	+110.95%	+33.59%	-69.49%

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 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	47,370	31,186	31,226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	85.59%	90.02%	86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted	28,285	19,511	18,789
10^th Percentile	£325	£297	£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%	-1.50%
75^th Percentile	£638	£624	£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	3,818	2,038	1,099
10^th Percentile	£13.50	£14.38	£15.09
25^th Percentile	£16.46	£17.30	£20.12
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£25.15	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+39.17%	-28.14%	-19.77%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£43.75	£63.75
90^th Percentile	£80.00	£67.00	£73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.28	£22.50	£33.27
% change year-on-year	+52.36%	-32.37%	-24.21%

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 10 November 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 10 November 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 10 November 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	-39	727	£550	-	1,366
UK excluding London	-24	422	£500	+5.26%	714
London	-33	325	£595	+0.42%	673
Work from Home	-58	195	£550	+4.76%	674
North of England	-19	138	£465	-2.11%	208
South East	-47	96	£525	-14.29%	167
North West	-21	81	£474	+3.61%	112
Midlands	-16	70	£447	+11.75%	100
West Midlands	+6	62	£447	-0.67%	72
South West	-16	54	£615	+32.97%	86
Yorkshire	-13	41	£525	+7.69%	66
Scotland	-4	36	£590	+38.82%	62
East of England	-20	33	£538	+8.04%	45
North East	-22	16	£425	-22.73%	30
East Midlands	-39	8	£533	+33.13%	28
Wales	-8	6	£500	-18.37%	19
Northern Ireland	-	1	£550	-	29

Information Security Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 November 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	37.8%	306
2	Risk Management	30.5%	247
3	Stakeholder Management	29.5%	239
4	Microsoft	26.0%	211
5	ISO/IEC 27001	25.2%	204
6	Security Cleared	22.5%	182
7	Azure	21.6%	175
8	Data Protection	21.5%	174
9	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	158
10	CISSP	18.6%	151
11	NIST	17.0%	138
11	SC Cleared	17.0%	138
13	Agile	16.0%	130
13	GDPR	16.0%	130
15	Vulnerability Management	14.9%	121
16	Degree	14.8%	120
17	AWS	14.6%	118
18	Problem-Solving	14.4%	117
19	GRC	13.7%	111
19	Incident Response	13.7%	111
21	Stakeholder Engagement	13.0%	105
22	Cloud Security	12.7%	103
23	CISM	12.6%	102
24	AI	12.1%	98
25	Security Architecture	12.0%	97
26	Security Operations	11.9%	96
27	Roadmaps	11.0%	89
28	DevOps	10.2%	83
29	CI/CD	10.0%	81
30	Decision-Making	9.9%	80

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	37.8%	306
2	Risk Management	30.5%	247
3	Stakeholder Management	29.5%	239
4	Data Protection	21.5%	174
5	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	158
6	Agile	16.0%	130
7	Vulnerability Management	14.9%	121
8	Problem-Solving	14.4%	117
9	Incident Response	13.7%	111
10	Stakeholder Engagement	13.0%	105
11	Cloud Security	12.7%	103
12	AI	12.1%	98
13	Security Architecture	12.0%	97
14	Security Operations	11.9%	96
15	Roadmaps	11.0%	89
16	DevOps	10.2%	83
17	CI/CD	10.0%	81
18	Decision-Making	9.9%	80
19	Mentoring	8.9%	72
20	SIEM	8.5%	69