Information Security Contracts in the Thames Valley

Information Security (InfoSec)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 80 79
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Information Security 75 72 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.84% 2.51% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 2.77% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 50
10th Percentile £165 £380 £205
25th Percentile £500 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +8.70% +35.29%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £638
90th Percentile £710 £702 £719
South East median daily rate £568 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -6.97% +10.91% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £18.00 - -
25th Percentile £18.94 £71.20 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £73.20 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.36% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £74.20 -
90th Percentile - £74.55 -
South East median hourly rate £19.50 £72.40 -
% change year-on-year -73.06% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the Thames Valley

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the Thames Valley

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the Thames Valley

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the Thames Valley

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -25 43 £537 -17.46% 14
Buckinghamshire +45 16 £500 +8.11% 3
Oxfordshire +15 16 £615 +32.97% 12
Information Security
South East

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) Azure
1 5 (6.67%) SaaS
2 3 (4.00%) AWS
2 3 (4.00%) IaaS
2 3 (4.00%) PaaS
3 2 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.33%) Network Security
2 6 (8.00%) Firewall
2 6 (8.00%) VPN
3 5 (6.67%) LAN
3 5 (6.67%) WAN
4 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.67%) DNS
5 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.33%) Broadband
6 1 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.33%) SSL
6 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Android Studio
1 1 (1.33%) JIRA
1 1 (1.33%) Postman
1 1 (1.33%) Selenium
1 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
1 1 (1.33%) Xcode
General
1 20 (26.67%) Legal
2 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 11 (14.67%) Law
5 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.33%) Finance
5 10 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.00%) Marketing
6 6 (8.00%) Police
7 3 (4.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Billing
9 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (10.67%) Consultant
2 7 (9.33%) Information Security Specialist
2 7 (9.33%) Information Specialist
2 7 (9.33%) Security Consultant
2 7 (9.33%) Security Specialist
3 6 (8.00%) Architect
3 6 (8.00%) Business Process Trainer
3 6 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 6 (8.00%) Information Manager
3 6 (8.00%) Information Security Manager
3 6 (8.00%) IT Trainer
3 6 (8.00%) Security Manager
3 6 (8.00%) Trainer
4 5 (6.67%) Development Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Operations Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 5 (6.67%) Systems Development Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) .NET
1 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.33%) HTML
1 1 (1.33%) JSON
1 1 (1.33%) RESTful
1 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (9.33%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (8.00%) Virtual Team
5 5 (6.67%) PMI
6 3 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (4.00%) Wiki
7 1 (1.33%) CSOC
7 1 (1.33%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.67%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.67%) Linux
5 1 (1.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 17 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (21.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 14 (18.67%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (17.33%) Data Protection
6 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 11 (14.67%) Information Security Management
8 11 (14.67%) Security Management
9 10 (13.33%) ITIL
9 10 (13.33%) Project Management
10 9 (12.00%) Application Security
10 9 (12.00%) Business Strategy
10 9 (12.00%) OWASP
11 8 (10.67%) Business Continuity
11 8 (10.67%) Conflict Resolution
12 7 (9.33%) Capacity Management
12 7 (9.33%) Information Management
12 7 (9.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) ISACA
2 6 (8.00%) CISM
2 6 (8.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) ISEB
3 5 (6.67%) CISSP
3 5 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) CIPD
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) CRISC
6 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.33%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) GDPR
2 13 (17.33%) NIST
3 9 (12.00%) COBIT
3 9 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.67%) Accessibility
5 4 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.00%) GRC
6 3 (4.00%) SLA
7 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.67%) XenApp
4 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (4.00%) Nessus
2 2 (2.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (2.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Reuters
2 5 (6.67%) VMware
3 4 (5.33%) Cisco
4 2 (2.67%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.67%) Citrix
4 2 (2.67%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) Meraki
4 2 (2.67%) Splunk
5 1 (1.33%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.33%) Salesforce