Information Assurance Contracts in the South East

Information Assurance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Information Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Assurance 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 180 193 252
Rank change year-on-year +13 +59 -43
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 12 20 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.35% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.40% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £553 £463 £530
25th Percentile £608 £514 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £623 £725 £688
90th Percentile £680 £750 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £604
% change year-on-year -4.17% -0.58% +4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £54.74
25th Percentile £52.90 £71.20 £59.57
Median hourly rate £55.80 £72.40 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +12.24% +12.17%
75th Percentile £58.70 £73.59 £67.07
90th Percentile - - £67.64
England median hourly rate £55.80 £83.31 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.02% +87.21% -20.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Information Assurance 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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Information Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Information Assurance in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Information Assurance in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Assurance in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Assurance in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Assurance in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Information Assurance in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Assurance within the South East 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
Thames Valley +8 9 £615 +23.00%
Oxfordshire +11 6 £615 +26.15%
Berkshire -18 3 - -
Hampshire -2 2 £775 +31.22% 1
Surrey +13 1 £450 -35.71%
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Consultant
1 2 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (16.67%) iPad
4 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (58.33%) Information Security
2 6 (50.00%) Information Management
3 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) PLM
3 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) JSP 440
2 1 (8.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) VMware