Information Assurance Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Information Assurance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Information Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 297 413
Rank change year-on-year +6 +116 +72
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 10 51 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.38% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 41 44
10th Percentile £313 £441 £502
25th Percentile £536 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £608
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -5.35% +1.25%
75th Percentile £682 £713 £706
90th Percentile £692 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.12% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - £69.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £70.50
75th Percentile £92.50 - £71.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.47 £76.50
% change year-on-year -1.56% -18.34% +71.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Information Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,024 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,199 8,917 16,193
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 575 527
10th Percentile £13.96 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.52 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.75 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Information Assurance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Information Assurance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Information Assurance.

Information Assurance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Information Assurance over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Information Assurance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Information Assurance
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Information Assurance.

Information Assurance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Police
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Performance Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Information Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Advisor
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Information Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Security Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (20.00%) ISMS
3 2 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CISM
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (20.00%) PMO
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle