Information Security Contract Job Trends

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	204	163	108
Rank change year-on-year	-41	-55	-16
Contract jobs citing Information Security	794	594	820
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	1.44%	1.78%	2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.69%	1.97%	2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	430	323	501
10^th Percentile	£312	£342	£400
25^th Percentile	£425	£413	£488
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£580
Median % change year-on-year	-	-5.17%	-2.23%
75^th Percentile	£647	£675	£690
90^th Percentile	£750	£775	£820
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£484	£599
% change year-on-year	-1.76%	-19.28%	+6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted	87	57	20
10^th Percentile	£15.75	£18.82	£15.20
25^th Percentile	£21.35	£20.71	£15.73
Median hourly rate	£62.25	£33.50	£21.55
Median % change year-on-year	+85.82%	+55.49%	-70.30%
75^th Percentile	£80.00	£65.00	£37.25
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£83.50	£46.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£62.25	£33.50	£22.09
% change year-on-year	+85.82%	+51.65%	-70.31%

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	46,912	30,155	32,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	84.87%	90.56%	86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	28,167	18,750	19,390
10^th Percentile	£325	£300	£309
25^th Percentile	£425	£404	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-2.42%
75^th Percentile	£638	£625	£638
90^th Percentile	£736	£725	£750
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	3,500	1,913	1,230
10^th Percentile	£13.51	£14.38	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£16.75	£17.30	£20.12
Median hourly rate	£37.24	£25.08	£40.00
Median % change year-on-year	+48.51%	-37.31%	-10.11%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£42.75	£65.00
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£65.25	£73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£37.24	£22.27	£40.33
% change year-on-year	+67.26%	-44.79%	-8.14%

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 17 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 of jobs citing Information Security over the 6 months to 17 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 17 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	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-40	715	£540	-0.46%	1,183
UK excluding London	-17	424	£475	-1.76%	667
London	-44	309	£595	+3.48%	580
Work from Home	-56	200	£550	+10.00%	573
North of England	-19	137	£475	+3.83%	188
South East	-42	98	£500	-20.00%	167
North West	-14	84	£525	+22.09%	100
Midlands	-14	71	£447	+11.75%	80
West Midlands	+6	62	£447	-3.35%	57
South West	-24	55	£600	+29.73%	80
Scotland	-4	37	£586	+31.57%	63
Yorkshire	-16	37	£525	+5.00%	57
East of England	-16	33	£538	+13.16%	39
North East	-27	16	£425	-22.73%	31
East Midlands	-31	9	£616	+54.06%	23
Wales	-10	5	£658	+7.35%	19
Northern Ireland	-	1	£550	-	34

Information Security Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 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 with a requirement for Information Security.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	37.4%	297
2	Risk Management	30.0%	238
3	Stakeholder Management	29.2%	232
4	Microsoft	26.7%	212
5	ISO/IEC 27001	25.9%	206
6	Azure	23.2%	184
6	Security Cleared	23.2%	184
8	Data Protection	20.9%	166
9	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	155
10	CISSP	18.0%	143
11	SC Cleared	17.8%	141
12	NIST	16.9%	134
13	Degree	16.1%	128
14	GDPR	16.0%	127
15	AWS	15.2%	121
16	Agile	15.0%	119
16	GRC	15.0%	119
18	Problem-Solving	14.5%	115
19	Incident Response	14.2%	113
20	Vulnerability Management	14.0%	111
21	Stakeholder Engagement	13.4%	106
22	CISM	12.7%	101
23	Cloud Security	12.2%	97
23	Security Operations	12.2%	97
25	Roadmaps	11.5%	91
26	AI	11.2%	89
27	Security Architecture	11.0%	87
28	DevOps	10.3%	82
29	Decision-Making	9.7%	77
30	ITIL	9.4%	75

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	37.4%	297
2	Risk Management	30.0%	238
3	Stakeholder Management	29.2%	232
4	Data Protection	20.9%	166
5	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	155
6	Agile	15.0%	119
7	Problem-Solving	14.5%	115
8	Incident Response	14.2%	113
9	Vulnerability Management	14.0%	111
10	Stakeholder Engagement	13.4%	106
11	Cloud Security	12.2%	97
11	Security Operations	12.2%	97
13	Roadmaps	11.5%	91
14	AI	11.2%	89
15	Security Architecture	11.0%	87
16	DevOps	10.3%	82
17	Decision-Making	9.7%	77
18	ITIL	9.4%	75
19	CI/CD	9.1%	72
20	Computer Science	8.6%	68