Information Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 115 118
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Information Security 394 511 678
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.95% 2.23% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.49% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 364 458
10th Percentile £411 £273 £350
25th Percentile £500 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £652 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £584 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.67% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 16
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.61 £14.60
25th Percentile £16.36 £27.54 £31.41
Median hourly rate £18.00 £75.75 £74.38
Median % change year-on-year -76.24% +1.84% +27.84%
75th Percentile £19.75 £83.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £26.09 - £80.13
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +50.00% +96.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,041 20,494 27,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.15% 89.42% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,189 14,100 19,120
10th Percentile £250 £259 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 1,256 1,368
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East +5 121 £555 -9.02% 134
North of England +31 92 £582 +5.82% 100
South West +13 89 £582 -9.77% 49
Midlands +1 56 £613 +9.38% 91
Scotland +36 54 £525 -3.58% 20
North West +20 52 £566 +2.91% 36
Yorkshire +28 36 £582 +1.66% 53
West Midlands -17 35 £634 +7.87% 53
East Midlands +28 19 £400 -27.27% 38
East of England -29 10 £450 +9.09% 38
North East +13 4 £525 -12.50% 11
Wales +7 3 £638 +131.82% 6
Information Security
UK

Information Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.02%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.02%) nginx
1 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) Apache
2 1 (0.25%) Confluence
2 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.25%) IIS
2 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SAP CRM
1 2 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
1 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.20%) Azure
2 32 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (7.87%) AWS
4 19 (4.82%) SaaS
5 13 (3.30%) IaaS
6 11 (2.79%) GCP
6 11 (2.79%) PaaS
7 9 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.27%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.76%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.76%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.51%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.51%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub
11 1 (0.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 61 (15.48%) Network Security
2 24 (6.09%) Firewall
3 17 (4.31%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (2.79%) VPN
5 9 (2.28%) HTTPS
5 9 (2.28%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.03%) DNS
6 8 (2.03%) Wireless
7 6 (1.52%) LAN
7 6 (1.52%) WAN
8 5 (1.27%) SAN
9 4 (1.02%) IPsec
9 4 (1.02%) SCCP
10 3 (0.76%) Internet
10 3 (0.76%) Intranet
10 3 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.06%) Big Data
2 5 (1.27%) MySQL
2 5 (1.27%) Power BI
3 4 (1.02%) Couchbase
3 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.51%) GIS
5 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.02%) JIRA
2 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.25%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.25%) AppScan
3 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.25%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) MSI
3 1 (0.25%) Postman
3 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.25%) Selenium
3 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.25%) Subversion
3 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.25%) Xcode
General
1 118 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.53%) Public Sector
3 66 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.94%) Finance
5 40 (10.15%) Legal
6 29 (7.36%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.30%) Law
9 11 (2.79%) Marketing
9 11 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.54%) Military
11 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.52%) Banking
12 6 (1.52%) Police
13 5 (1.27%) Electronics
13 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
14 4 (1.02%) Retail
15 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (20.30%) Analyst
2 43 (10.91%) Lead
3 37 (9.39%) Architect
4 32 (8.12%) Consultant
5 31 (7.87%) Security Analyst
6 27 (6.85%) Senior
7 25 (6.35%) Project Manager
8 24 (6.09%) Security Architect
9 22 (5.58%) Security Consultant
10 20 (5.08%) SOC Analyst
11 15 (3.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 14 (3.55%) Security Manager
13 13 (3.30%) Cyber Defence Analyst
13 13 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 12 (3.05%) IT Manager
15 11 (2.79%) Information Manager
15 11 (2.79%) Security Specialist
15 11 (2.79%) SOC Manager
16 10 (2.54%) Information Analyst
16 10 (2.54%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.55%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (1.78%) HTML
3 6 (1.52%) JSON
4 5 (1.27%) CSS
4 5 (1.27%) YAML
5 4 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.02%) LDAP
5 4 (1.02%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.76%) .NET
6 3 (0.76%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.51%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.51%) REST
7 2 (0.51%) Web Services
8 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.25%) HTML5
8 1 (0.25%) JSP
8 1 (0.25%) RESTful
8 1 (0.25%) SOAP
8 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (39.59%) Management Information System
2 61 (15.48%) Cyber Defence
3 47 (11.93%) Cyber Threat
4 38 (9.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 34 (8.63%) Security Operations Centre
6 17 (4.31%) CSOC
7 16 (4.06%) Distributed Applications
8 13 (3.30%) Operational Technology
9 11 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.54%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.54%) Security Posture
11 9 (2.28%) CMDB
11 9 (2.28%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.03%) CESG
13 5 (1.27%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.27%) PMI
14 4 (1.02%) IoT
14 4 (1.02%) iPhone
15 3 (0.76%) Cyberattack
15 3 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.18%) Windows
2 32 (8.12%) Linux
3 23 (5.84%) Apple iOS
4 20 (5.08%) Android
5 15 (3.81%) Unix
6 13 (3.30%) Windows 10
7 11 (2.79%) Windows 7
8 9 (2.28%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.02%) CentOS
10 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.51%) Solaris
10 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (48.22%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (22.59%) SIEM
3 77 (19.54%) Security Operations
4 75 (19.04%) Risk Management
5 74 (18.78%) Incident Response
6 64 (16.24%) Incident Management
7 61 (15.48%) Threat Intelligence
8 55 (13.96%) Use Case
9 52 (13.20%) Security Architecture
10 50 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (12.18%) Vulnerability Management
12 46 (11.68%) Mentoring
12 46 (11.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 44 (11.17%) Agile
13 44 (11.17%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 40 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (9.90%) ITIL
16 37 (9.39%) CRM
17 36 (9.14%) Case Management
17 36 (9.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.57%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.54%) Python
3 8 (2.03%) Swift
4 5 (1.27%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.02%) Bash
5 4 (1.02%) PHP
5 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.76%) Java
6 3 (0.76%) Perl
7 2 (0.51%) AWK
7 2 (0.51%) Bourne shell
7 2 (0.51%) C#
7 2 (0.51%) Korn
7 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.25%) Julia
8 1 (0.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 143 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 87 (22.08%) DV Cleared
3 64 (16.24%) CISSP
4 57 (14.47%) SC Cleared
5 48 (12.18%) CISM
6 33 (8.38%) Degree
7 21 (5.33%) CISA
8 15 (3.81%) ISACA
9 13 (3.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 12 (3.05%) CEH
11 11 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (2.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 9 (2.28%) SSCP
14 8 (2.03%) CCNP
14 8 (2.03%) CISMP
14 8 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (2.03%) CRISC
15 7 (1.78%) CCSP
16 6 (1.52%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (27.16%) NIST
2 88 (22.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (13.20%) GDPR
4 44 (11.17%) NIST 800
5 26 (6.60%) PCI DSS
6 17 (4.31%) NCSC
7 15 (3.81%) COBIT
8 14 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 14 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (3.55%) GRC
8 14 (3.55%) HIPAA
8 14 (3.55%) SLA
9 13 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 9 (2.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (2.28%) QA
11 7 (1.78%) Accessibility
11 7 (1.78%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.76%) IASME
13 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
System Software
1 20 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.51%) Docker
3 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.51%) XenApp
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.54%) SCCM
2 9 (2.28%) Ansible
3 8 (2.03%) Terraform
4 5 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.27%) Nessus
5 3 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (0.76%) Kibana
5 3 (0.76%) logstash
5 3 (0.76%) Puppet
5 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.51%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.51%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.51%) yum
7 1 (0.25%) Nagios
7 1 (0.25%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.25%) WMI
Vendors
1 108 (27.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.06%) Red Hat
3 11 (2.79%) Cisco
4 8 (2.03%) Okta
5 7 (1.78%) Google
5 7 (1.78%) SAP
5 7 (1.78%) VMware
6 6 (1.52%) Citrix
6 6 (1.52%) Computacenter
6 6 (1.52%) Qualys
7 5 (1.27%) Reuters
7 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.27%) Splunk
8 3 (0.76%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.76%) Juniper
8 3 (0.76%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.51%) Darktrace
9 2 (0.51%) Databricks
9 2 (0.51%) Meraki