Information Security Contracts in the South East

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 81 86 101
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Information Security 133 139 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.31% 2.45% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.76% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 83 113
10th Percentile £418 £325 £230
25th Percentile £500 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +9.09% +7.06%
75th Percentile £661 £673 £625
90th Percentile £711 £700 £700
England median daily rate £595 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -3.25% +6.96% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £18.00 £28.50 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £40.86 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £72.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.06% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £73.90 -
90th Percentile £27.55 £74.40 -
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
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Thames Valley +16 77 £540 -12.90% 22
Berkshire -27 43 £540 -15.95% 9
Hampshire -9 42 £600 +14.29% 18
Buckinghamshire +42 17 £500 +8.11% 3
Oxfordshire +13 17 £615 +32.97% 10
Surrey +13 11 £600 -5.88% 13
Kent +12 4 £540 -13.60% 8
East Sussex 0 1 £650 -7.14% 5
Information Security
England

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.03%) Azure
2 8 (6.02%) AWS
3 6 (4.51%) SaaS
4 5 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (3.01%) IaaS
5 4 (3.01%) PaaS
6 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.50%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.53%) Network Security
2 12 (9.02%) Firewall
3 7 (5.26%) VPN
4 5 (3.76%) LAN
4 5 (3.76%) WAN
5 4 (3.01%) Wireless
6 3 (2.26%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (2.26%) SAN
6 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.50%) DNS
7 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.75%) Power BI
1 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Android Studio
2 1 (0.75%) MSI
2 1 (0.75%) Postman
2 1 (0.75%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.75%) Selenium
2 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
2 1 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 44 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.79%) Legal
2 21 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 17 (12.78%) Finance
4 14 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.27%) Law
6 10 (7.52%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.51%) Marketing
8 6 (4.51%) Police
9 3 (2.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Billing
11 1 (0.75%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Consultant
2 16 (12.03%) Lead
3 15 (11.28%) Security Consultant
4 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 10 (7.52%) Senior
5 9 (6.77%) Analyst
6 7 (5.26%) Information Manager
6 7 (5.26%) Information Security Manager
6 7 (5.26%) Information Security Specialist
6 7 (5.26%) Information Specialist
6 7 (5.26%) Security Manager
6 7 (5.26%) Security Specialist
7 6 (4.51%) Architect
7 6 (4.51%) Business Process Trainer
7 6 (4.51%) Information Security Consultant
7 6 (4.51%) IT Trainer
7 6 (4.51%) Trainer
8 5 (3.76%) Operations Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Systems Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.50%) HTML
3 1 (0.75%) .NET
3 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.75%) CSS
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
3 1 (0.75%) JSP
3 1 (0.75%) LDAP
3 1 (0.75%) REST
3 1 (0.75%) RESTful
3 1 (0.75%) SOAP
3 1 (0.75%) Web Services
3 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (32.33%) Management Information System
2 20 (15.04%) Cyber Threat
3 19 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 17 (12.78%) Cyber Defence
5 10 (7.52%) Data Centre
6 8 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.51%) Virtual Team
8 5 (3.76%) PMI
9 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.26%) Wiki
10 2 (1.50%) CSOC
10 2 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.75%) Robotics
11 1 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.75%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Windows
2 7 (5.26%) Linux
2 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
3 3 (2.26%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.50%) Solaris
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.36%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (24.81%) Incident Response
3 29 (21.80%) SIEM
4 27 (20.30%) Risk Management
5 26 (19.55%) Incident Management
5 26 (19.55%) Vulnerability Management
6 25 (18.80%) Mentoring
7 22 (16.54%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 22 (16.54%) Threat Intelligence
8 21 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (14.29%) Use Case
10 18 (13.53%) Identity Access Management
11 17 (12.78%) Case Management
11 17 (12.78%) CRM
11 17 (12.78%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (12.78%) SOAR
12 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (11.28%) Data Protection
13 15 (11.28%) Protective Monitoring
14 14 (10.53%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.50%) AWK
2 2 (1.50%) Bourne shell
2 2 (1.50%) Korn
2 2 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (1.50%) Perl
2 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.75%) C#
3 1 (0.75%) Java
3 1 (0.75%) Python
3 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.29%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.27%) CISM
4 11 (8.27%) CISSP
4 11 (8.27%) Degree
5 7 (5.26%) ISACA
6 6 (4.51%) ISEB
7 5 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.76%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.01%) CCNP
9 3 (2.26%) CCNA
9 3 (2.26%) CCSP
9 3 (2.26%) CIPD
10 2 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.50%) CCSK
10 2 (1.50%) CEH
10 2 (1.50%) CRISC
10 2 (1.50%) RHCE
10 2 (1.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.31%) NIST
2 19 (14.29%) GDPR
2 19 (14.29%) NIST 800
3 12 (9.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (7.52%) COBIT
5 8 (6.02%) PCI DSS
6 6 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
7 5 (3.76%) SLA
8 4 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (3.01%) GRC
9 1 (0.75%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.50%) XenApp
4 1 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) Kibana
1 5 (3.76%) logstash
2 4 (3.01%) Nessus
3 3 (2.26%) Ansible
3 3 (2.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (2.26%) SCCM
4 2 (1.50%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.50%) yum
5 1 (0.75%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.75%) QRadar
5 1 (0.75%) Terraform
5 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.75%) WMI
5 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (34.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Cisco
3 8 (6.02%) VMware
4 5 (3.76%) Reuters
4 5 (3.76%) Tanium
5 3 (2.26%) EMC
5 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.26%) Splunk
5 3 (2.26%) Veritas
6 2 (1.50%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.50%) Citrix
6 2 (1.50%) Google
6 2 (1.50%) Juniper
6 2 (1.50%) Meraki
7 1 (0.75%) Apple
7 1 (0.75%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.75%) McAfee
7 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce