Information Security Governance Contracts

Information Security Governance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Information Security Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security Governance 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 565 678 848
Rank change year-on-year +113 +170 -151
Contract jobs citing Information Security Governance 14 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.028% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.031% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 13
10th Percentile £494 £460 -
25th Percentile £508 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £695 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% +23.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £627 £832 £625
90th Percentile £639 £835 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Security Governance 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Information Security Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Governance in the UK

Information Security Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security Governance in the UK

Information Security Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Information Security Governance in the UK

Information Security Governance
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Governance within the UK 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
England +114 13 £533 -30.33% 8
London +99 10 £554 -27.58% 4
Work from Home +108 5 £575 -24.84%
UK excluding London +54 4 £564 -6.00% 4
South East +21 2 £517 -13.92%
North West - 1 £650 -
Scotland - 1 £595 -
North of England - 1 £650 - 4

Information Security Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Information Security Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Information Officer
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security Officer
2 3 (21.43%) Security Officer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Information Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Author
4 1 (7.14%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Information Governance Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Information Governance Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Information Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Information Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Information Security
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) ISMS
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Security Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Privacy
6 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 2 (14.29%) Due Diligence
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Information Security Management
6 2 (14.29%) Internal Audit
6 2 (14.29%) IT Audit
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) CISSP
2 8 (57.14%) CISM
3 5 (35.71%) CISA
4 3 (21.43%) CRISC
5 2 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
5 2 (14.29%) PMP
6 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (57.14%) NIST
3 4 (28.57%) GRC
4 3 (21.43%) GDPR
5 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (7.14%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft