Information Security Contracts in the North of England

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 117 92
Rank change year-on-year +29 -25 +30
Contract jobs citing Information Security 93 95 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.96% 1.71% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.90% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 72 133
10th Percentile £313 £413 £363
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -4.35% +20.42%
75th Percentile £665 £619 £675
90th Percentile £729 £688 £763
England median daily rate £600 £618 £575
% change year-on-year -2.83% +7.39% +9.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £18.78 £38.57 -
25th Percentile £20.36 £67.39 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £83.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.42% - -
75th Percentile £30.71 - -
90th Percentile £35.34 - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £75.75 £41.50
% change year-on-year -74.26% +82.53% -28.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the North of England

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the North of England

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the North of England

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the North of England

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in the North of England

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +5 51 £600 +9.09% 42
Yorkshire +28 38 £582 +3.93% 41
North East +15 4 £525 -12.50% 11
Information Security
England

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

Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) SAP CRM
1 2 (2.15%) SAP IS-U
1 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) Azure
2 11 (11.83%) AWS
3 9 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.53%) IaaS
5 6 (6.45%) GCP
6 5 (5.38%) PaaS
6 5 (5.38%) SaaS
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.13%) Network Security
2 5 (5.38%) HTTPS
3 3 (3.23%) Intranet
4 2 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (2.15%) Wireless
5 1 (1.08%) DHCP
5 1 (1.08%) DNS
5 1 (1.08%) Firewall
5 1 (1.08%) Internet
5 1 (1.08%) SAN
5 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (2.15%) Big Data
1 2 (2.15%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (2.15%) GIS
1 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
1 2 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.68%) Finance
4 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.38%) Legal
7 4 (4.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (17.20%) Lead
2 13 (13.98%) Architect
2 13 (13.98%) Security Architect
3 11 (11.83%) Analyst
4 7 (7.53%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.53%) Security Analyst
4 7 (7.53%) Senior
5 6 (6.45%) Consultant
6 5 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) IT Support
7 4 (4.30%) IT Support Technician
7 4 (4.30%) IT Technician
7 4 (4.30%) Security Specialist
7 4 (4.30%) Support Technician
8 3 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (3.23%) Information Analyst
8 3 (3.23%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.23%) CSS
1 3 (3.23%) HTML
1 3 (3.23%) LDAP
2 1 (1.08%) .NET
2 1 (1.08%) J2EE
2 1 (1.08%) JSON
2 1 (1.08%) REST
2 1 (1.08%) Swagger
2 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (44.09%) Management Information System
2 16 (17.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 16 (17.20%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (15.05%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (5.38%) CMDB
5 4 (4.30%) iPhone
6 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.08%) NHS
8 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.83%) Windows
2 5 (5.38%) Android
2 5 (5.38%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) Linux
4 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.09%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (30.11%) Risk Management
3 20 (21.51%) SIEM
4 18 (19.35%) Incident Management
5 17 (18.28%) Agile
5 17 (18.28%) CRM
5 17 (18.28%) Incident Response
6 16 (17.20%) Threat Intelligence
7 15 (16.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 15 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 15 (16.13%) SOAR
8 14 (15.05%) Case Management
8 14 (15.05%) IT Strategy
8 14 (15.05%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (15.05%) Technology Strategy
8 14 (15.05%) Use Case
9 13 (13.98%) Business Strategy
9 13 (13.98%) Protective Monitoring
9 13 (13.98%) Service Delivery
10 12 (12.90%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.53%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.45%) Python
3 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.15%) Bash
4 2 (2.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.28%) DV Cleared
3 15 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.98%) Degree
5 8 (8.60%) CISSP
6 6 (6.45%) CISM
7 5 (5.38%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (4.30%) CISA
8 4 (4.30%) ISSAP
9 2 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.08%) CCNA
10 1 (1.08%) CCNP
10 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (1.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (44.09%) NIST
2 30 (32.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (17.20%) NIST 800
4 8 (8.60%) PCI DSS
5 7 (7.53%) GRC
5 7 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (4.30%) COBIT
6 4 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
7 3 (3.23%) GDPR
7 3 (3.23%) IASME
7 3 (3.23%) QA
8 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.08%) NCSC
9 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.08%) SCCM
3 1 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (30.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.53%) Citrix
3 4 (4.30%) Rapid7
3 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.15%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.15%) Darktrace
4 2 (2.15%) Databricks
4 2 (2.15%) SAP
4 2 (2.15%) Teradata
5 1 (1.08%) Apple
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco
5 1 (1.08%) Imperva
5 1 (1.08%) Qualys
5 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.08%) Sophos
5 1 (1.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.08%) Zscaler