Information Security Contracts in England

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 111 138
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing Information Security 730 1,126 1,388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.00% 2.34% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.60% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 845 942
10th Percentile £343 £400 £392
25th Percentile £475 £508 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £572
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.85% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.72 £18.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £35.71 £26.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +18.11% +149.02%
75th Percentile £23.89 £83.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £37.08 - £77.82
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year -74.00% +36.99% +114.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in England.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in England

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in England.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in England

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -19 354 £600 -7.34% 185
South East +14 122 £560 -6.67% 84
North of England +36 96 £575 +4.55% 78
South West +1 85 £582 -9.06% 46
Midlands +10 60 £613 +9.38% 84
North West +12 54 £563 +2.27% 36
West Midlands -6 39 £625 +6.38% 52
Yorkshire +26 38 £582 +3.93% 37
East Midlands +23 19 £400 -27.27% 32
East of England -33 10 £450 +1.41% 36
North East +18 4 £525 -12.50% 5
Information Security
UK

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.82%) Apache Solr
3 5 (0.68%) Apache
3 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 4 (0.55%) IIS
5 3 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.14%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP CRM
1 2 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.12%) Azure
2 81 (11.10%) AWS
3 67 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (6.71%) SaaS
5 37 (5.07%) IaaS
6 35 (4.79%) GCP
7 20 (2.74%) PaaS
8 19 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 19 (2.60%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.37%) Mimecast
10 9 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.10%) OneDrive
12 7 (0.96%) GitHub
13 5 (0.68%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.41%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.41%) Serverless
15 2 (0.27%) Akamai
15 2 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.27%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 98 (13.42%) Network Security
2 59 (8.08%) Firewall
3 26 (3.56%) DNS
4 25 (3.42%) Intrusion Detection
5 23 (3.15%) VPN
6 17 (2.33%) TCP/IP
7 15 (2.05%) WAN
8 13 (1.78%) HTTPS
8 13 (1.78%) Wireless
9 12 (1.64%) LAN
10 8 (1.10%) Internet
11 7 (0.96%) DHCP
12 6 (0.82%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.68%) Intranet
13 5 (0.68%) IPsec
13 5 (0.68%) SAN
13 5 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.55%) MPLS
14 4 (0.55%) VoIP
15 3 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.74%) Big Data
2 9 (1.23%) MySQL
3 8 (1.10%) Oracle Database
4 7 (0.96%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.68%) GIS
6 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.55%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.55%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.41%) Metadata
8 3 (0.41%) Power BI
8 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.41%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (2.74%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.05%) GitLab
2 15 (2.05%) JIRA
3 7 (0.96%) Maven
4 3 (0.41%) Git
5 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.27%) RStudio
5 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.14%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.14%) MSI
6 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 219 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 181 (24.79%) Finance
3 114 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.26%) Legal
6 38 (5.21%) Banking
7 37 (5.07%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 23 (3.15%) Law
10 21 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.74%) Marketing
12 12 (1.64%) Police
12 12 (1.64%) Retail
13 11 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.37%) Military
15 9 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.10%) Electronics
16 8 (1.10%) Front Office
16 8 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (16.71%) Analyst
2 98 (13.42%) Architect
3 75 (10.27%) Consultant
4 74 (10.14%) Security Architect
5 57 (7.81%) Security Consultant
6 50 (6.85%) Lead
7 44 (6.03%) Security Manager
7 44 (6.03%) Senior
8 38 (5.21%) Project Manager
9 37 (5.07%) Security Analyst
9 37 (5.07%) Security Engineer
10 31 (4.25%) SOC Analyst
11 25 (3.42%) Information Manager
12 24 (3.29%) Information Security Manager
13 23 (3.15%) Information Security Consultant
13 23 (3.15%) Security Specialist
14 21 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 21 (2.88%) Information Security Officer
14 21 (2.88%) Security Officer
15 16 (2.19%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.05%) Apache NiFi
2 11 (1.51%) HTML
2 11 (1.51%) LDAP
3 9 (1.23%) CSS
4 8 (1.10%) SailPoint
5 7 (0.96%) .NET
5 7 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (0.96%) Hibernate
5 7 (0.96%) JPA
5 7 (0.96%) JSON
6 6 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (0.82%) SAML
6 6 (0.82%) Web Services
6 6 (0.82%) YAML
7 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.55%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (0.55%) XML
8 3 (0.41%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.41%) Node.js
8 3 (0.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 215 (29.45%) Management Information System
2 76 (10.41%) Cyber Defence
3 73 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
4 49 (6.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 45 (6.16%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (4.25%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.33%) CSOC
7 17 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
8 16 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.05%) Operational Technology
10 13 (1.78%) CMDB
10 13 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.51%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.10%) CESG
13 8 (1.10%) Cloud Native
14 7 (0.96%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.96%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 93 (12.74%) Windows
2 44 (6.03%) Linux
3 27 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 24 (3.29%) Unix
5 21 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 19 (2.60%) Android
6 19 (2.60%) Windows 10
7 13 (1.78%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (44.11%) Cybersecurity
2 138 (18.90%) Risk Management
3 125 (17.12%) SIEM
4 120 (16.44%) Security Operations
5 112 (15.34%) Incident Response
6 103 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (12.60%) Security Architecture
8 86 (11.78%) Agile
9 78 (10.68%) Incident Management
10 77 (10.55%) Cloud Security
11 76 (10.41%) Threat Intelligence
12 71 (9.73%) Identity Access Management
13 68 (9.32%) Data Protection
13 68 (9.32%) Vulnerability Management
14 67 (9.18%) Project Management
15 66 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 65 (8.90%) Use Case
17 62 (8.49%) MITRE ATT&CK
17 62 (8.49%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (5.34%) PowerShell
2 28 (3.84%) Python
3 22 (3.01%) Java
4 15 (2.05%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.05%) SQL
5 8 (1.10%) Swift
6 7 (0.96%) Perl
7 6 (0.82%) C++
8 5 (0.68%) Bash
9 4 (0.55%) C#
9 4 (0.55%) Go
9 4 (0.55%) PHP
10 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.27%) AWK
11 2 (0.27%) Bourne shell
11 2 (0.27%) Korn
11 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.27%) R
11 2 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 189 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 142 (19.45%) CISSP
3 113 (15.48%) CISM
4 101 (13.84%) DV Cleared
5 93 (12.74%) Degree
6 88 (12.05%) SC Cleared
7 45 (6.16%) CISA
8 35 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.42%) CEH
9 25 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (2.19%) ISACA
11 15 (2.05%) CRISC
12 14 (1.92%) CCNP
13 13 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (1.78%) GIAC
14 12 (1.64%) CCSP
14 12 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (1.51%) PMI Certification
16 10 (1.37%) CCNA
16 10 (1.37%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (23.42%) NIST
2 152 (20.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (11.23%) GDPR
4 57 (7.81%) NIST 800
5 45 (6.16%) PCI DSS
6 44 (6.03%) GRC
7 39 (5.34%) NCSC
8 31 (4.25%) COBIT
9 29 (3.97%) QA
10 22 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 22 (3.01%) SLA
11 18 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (2.19%) HIPAA
14 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.96%) PMO
16 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
16 5 (0.68%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.68%) ISO 31000
16 5 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.10%) Docker
3 8 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.55%) Firmware
4 4 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.55%) XenApp
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (4.11%) Terraform
2 29 (3.97%) SCCM
3 19 (2.60%) Ansible
4 17 (2.33%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.78%) Nessus
6 12 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.10%) CASB
7 8 (1.10%) Kibana
7 8 (1.10%) logstash
8 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.68%) Puppet
10 4 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.55%) QRadar
11 3 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.41%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.41%) Packer
11 3 (0.41%) WSUS
12 2 (0.27%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.27%) Nmap
12 2 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 190 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.15%) Cisco
3 22 (3.01%) Oracle
4 21 (2.88%) Google
5 19 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.19%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.19%) VMware
7 15 (2.05%) Okta
7 15 (2.05%) SAP
8 11 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (1.51%) Qualys
9 10 (1.37%) Citrix
10 7 (0.96%) Apple
10 7 (0.96%) Palo Alto
10 7 (0.96%) Rapid7
10 7 (0.96%) Workday
11 6 (0.82%) Computacenter
11 6 (0.82%) Splunk
12 5 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.68%) Reuters