Information Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £45,122 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 730 799
Rank change year-on-year -24 +69 -152
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Specialist 17 32 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.052% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.058% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 15 17 37
10th Percentile £36,000 £45,700 £39,850
25th Percentile £40,053 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,122 £64,100 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -29.61% +24.83% +2.70%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,050 £69,430 £73,400
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year -11.54% +12.55% -5.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Information Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Information Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Specialist in the UK excluding London

Information Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Information Specialist in the UK excluding London

Information Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Specialist in the UK excluding London

Information Specialist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +53 12 £45,122 -30.58%
North West +22 10 £51,250 -6.82%
Midlands +12 2 - - 1
Scotland -63 2 £66,000 +25.71% 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
North East - 2 £45,122 -
South East +20 1 £40,420 -29.15% 2
Information Specialist
UK

Information Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Information Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Information Specialist in the job title.

1 11 (64.71%) Information Security
2 5 (29.41%) OWASP
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) OSCP
3 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Legal
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Static Application Security Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Application Security
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Register
4 3 (17.65%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (17.65%) NIST
4 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (17.65%) EDI
4 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
5 2 (11.76%) ISMS

Information Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Wireshark
1 2 (11.76%) WPA
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) GIS
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Legal
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Information Security
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (29.41%) OWASP
3 4 (23.53%) Application Security
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (17.65%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Register
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Data Security
5 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) Information Security Management
5 2 (11.76%) Security Management
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) OSCP
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) OSCE
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (17.65%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (11.76%) TickIT
4 1 (5.88%) COBIT
4 1 (5.88%) ISO 31000
4 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) CA
2 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.88%) LogRhythm
2 1 (5.88%) Sun
2 1 (5.88%) Trustwave