Information Security Contracts in London

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 98 161
Rank change year-on-year -19 +63 -11
Contract jobs citing Information Security 361 656 722
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.07% 2.52% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.77% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 510 496
10th Percentile £324 £412 £400
25th Percentile £463 £526 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £647 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +12.48% -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £678
90th Percentile £853 £835 £775
England median daily rate £600 £623 £575
% change year-on-year -3.61% +8.26% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £18.45 £43.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £22.14 £47.50 £25.82
Median hourly rate £24.59 £55.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.29% +100.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile £25.00 £62.50 £36.25
90th Percentile - £67.00 £40.13
England median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £59.50
% change year-on-year -74.00% +26.05% +133.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +17 74 £588 -9.62% 18
East London -7 5 £700 -6.67% 46
West London +11 1 £325 -45.83% 5
South London +6 1 - - 1
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.39%) Apache
4 4 (1.11%) IIS
5 2 (0.55%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.55%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.22%) Azure
2 56 (15.51%) AWS
3 35 (9.70%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (7.76%) SaaS
5 27 (7.48%) GCP
6 19 (5.26%) IaaS
7 17 (4.71%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.22%) Mimecast
9 7 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.94%) GitHub
10 6 (1.66%) PaaS
11 5 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.39%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.39%) Serverless
12 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.11%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.55%) Akamai
13 2 (0.55%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.55%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.08%) Firewall
2 36 (9.97%) Network Security
3 18 (4.99%) DNS
4 12 (3.32%) VPN
5 8 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.22%) WAN
6 6 (1.66%) DHCP
6 6 (1.66%) Internet
7 5 (1.39%) LAN
8 4 (1.11%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.11%) MPLS
8 4 (1.11%) VoIP
8 4 (1.11%) Wireless
9 3 (0.83%) HTTP
10 2 (0.55%) EIGRP
10 2 (0.55%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.55%) OSPF
10 2 (0.55%) SNMP
10 2 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.22%) Oracle Database
2 7 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.39%) MySQL
4 3 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.83%) Big Data
4 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.83%) GIS
4 3 (0.83%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.83%) Spatial Data
5 2 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.55%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.55%) Metadata
5 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.55%) Power BI
5 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.55%) Redis
6 1 (0.28%) DB2
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (5.54%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.16%) GitLab
3 10 (2.77%) JIRA
4 7 (1.94%) Maven
5 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.55%) Git
5 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.55%) Postman
5 2 (0.55%) RStudio
6 1 (0.28%) AppScan
6 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 138 (38.23%) Finance
2 107 (29.64%) Social Skills
3 46 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.97%) Banking
5 26 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.60%) Legal
7 11 (3.05%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.77%) Front Office
8 10 (2.77%) Law
8 10 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.49%) Marketing
10 8 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.22%) Retail
10 8 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (16.34%) Architect
2 52 (14.40%) Analyst
3 48 (13.30%) Security Architect
4 38 (10.53%) Consultant
5 32 (8.86%) Security Consultant
6 29 (8.03%) Security Manager
7 28 (7.76%) Senior
8 27 (7.48%) Security Engineer
9 17 (4.71%) Security Analyst
10 16 (4.43%) Information Security Consultant
11 15 (4.16%) Developer
11 15 (4.16%) Information Security Manager
11 15 (4.16%) Information Security Officer
11 15 (4.16%) Security Officer
12 14 (3.88%) Information Manager
12 14 (3.88%) Security Specialist
13 13 (3.60%) Chief Information Security Officer
13 13 (3.60%) Project Manager
14 12 (3.32%) Applications Architect
14 12 (3.32%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.22%) SailPoint
2 7 (1.94%) Hibernate
2 7 (1.94%) JPA
3 5 (1.39%) .NET
3 5 (1.39%) LDAP
3 5 (1.39%) Web Services
4 4 (1.11%) CSS
4 4 (1.11%) HTML
5 3 (0.83%) SAML
5 3 (0.83%) XML
6 2 (0.55%) EDI
6 2 (0.55%) Kafka
6 2 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.28%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.28%) JSON
7 1 (0.28%) Node.js
7 1 (0.28%) REST
7 1 (0.28%) RESTful
7 1 (0.28%) WPF
7 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.50%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.82%) Security Posture
3 19 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.66%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.66%) Learning Management System
7 6 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.66%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.11%) CMDB
9 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.11%) PKI
9 4 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.47%) Windows
2 20 (5.54%) Linux
3 14 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.22%) Unix
5 6 (1.66%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.55%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (37.95%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (18.56%) Risk Management
3 55 (15.24%) Cloud Security
4 51 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (12.47%) Agile
6 39 (10.80%) Security Architecture
6 39 (10.80%) Security Operations
7 38 (10.53%) Security Management
8 36 (9.97%) Project Management
8 36 (9.97%) Threat Modelling
8 36 (9.97%) Vulnerability Management
9 35 (9.70%) Information Security Management
9 35 (9.70%) SIEM
10 33 (9.14%) Data Protection
10 33 (9.14%) Identity Access Management
10 33 (9.14%) Incident Response
11 32 (8.86%) Penetration Testing
11 32 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (8.59%) Application Security
12 31 (8.59%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 21 (5.82%) PowerShell
2 18 (4.99%) Python
3 17 (4.71%) Java
4 14 (3.88%) SQL
5 7 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.39%) C++
7 4 (1.11%) Bash
8 2 (0.55%) C#
8 2 (0.55%) Go
8 2 (0.55%) Perl
8 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.55%) R
8 2 (0.55%) Ruby
9 1 (0.28%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.28%) Scala
9 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (24.10%) CISSP
2 72 (19.94%) CISM
3 58 (16.07%) Degree
4 33 (9.14%) Security Cleared
5 31 (8.59%) CISA
6 27 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (6.09%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.32%) CRISC
10 11 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 11 (3.05%) DV Cleared
10 11 (3.05%) GIAC
11 10 (2.77%) CREST Certified
12 9 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (2.22%) CEH
14 6 (1.66%) CCSK
14 6 (1.66%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.66%) PMP
15 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
15 5 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (17.73%) NIST
3 31 (8.59%) GRC
4 26 (7.20%) GDPR
5 23 (6.37%) QA
6 19 (5.26%) PCI DSS
7 18 (4.99%) NCSC
8 16 (4.43%) COBIT
9 9 (2.49%) NIST 800
10 8 (2.22%) SLA
11 7 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (1.39%) ISO 22301
12 5 (1.39%) ISO 31000
12 5 (1.39%) PMO
12 5 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (1.11%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 45 (12.47%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.77%) Docker
3 8 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.83%) Firmware
6 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.55%) XenApp
7 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (7.20%) Terraform
2 19 (5.26%) SCCM
3 12 (3.32%) Ansible
3 12 (3.32%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.22%) CASB
4 8 (2.22%) Nessus
5 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.11%) Puppet
8 3 (0.83%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.83%) Packer
8 3 (0.83%) WSUS
9 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.55%) Grafana
9 2 (0.55%) Kibana
9 2 (0.55%) logstash
9 2 (0.55%) Podman
9 2 (0.55%) QRadar
9 2 (0.55%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 82 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.82%) Oracle
3 15 (4.16%) Google
4 14 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.05%) Qualys
6 10 (2.77%) Cisco
7 9 (2.49%) VMware
8 8 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (1.94%) Okta
9 7 (1.94%) SAP
9 7 (1.94%) Workday
10 6 (1.66%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.39%) Apple
12 4 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.11%) Citrix
12 4 (1.11%) Netskope
12 4 (1.11%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.83%) CA
13 3 (0.83%) McAfee
13 3 (0.83%) Zscaler