Information Assurance Job Trends in the City of London

Information Assurance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - 174
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Permanent jobs citing Information Assurance 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.047% - 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% - 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £75,750 - -
25th Percentile £80,625 - £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.94%
75th Percentile £105,625 - £46,500
90th Percentile £111,250 - -
Central London median annual salary £92,500 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Information Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,365 1,871 2,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 79.91% 96.39% 90.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,435 1,416 2,357
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,321
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Assurance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in the City of London

Information Assurance
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Assurance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Assurance

Information Assurance
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Assurance in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Assurance in the City of London

Information Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2