Information Security Contracts in the North East

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 46 43
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Information Security 4 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.24% 0.29% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.32% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £505 - £355
25th Percentile £513 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +76.92%
75th Percentile £538 - £713
90th Percentile £545 - £720
England median daily rate £595 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -3.25% +6.96% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £76.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -74.51% +93.67% -32.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Information Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 262 315 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.11% 90.00% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 239 335
10th Percentile £271 £248 £191
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £704 £659
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 6 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £18.38 £10.60
25th Percentile £12.13 £21.88 £12.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.25 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.53% +95.45% +29.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £33.75 £18.13
90th Percentile £68.75 £39.97 £33.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the North East

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the North East

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the North East

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Tyne and Wear +15 3 £525 -12.50% 5
Durham - 1 - - 1
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) ICT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile First
2 1 (25.00%) Network Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CISA
2 2 (50.00%) CISM
2 2 (50.00%) ISSAP
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) COBIT
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR