Information Security Contracts in the South West

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 61 88 113
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 -36
Contract jobs citing Information Security 99 77 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.04% 2.26% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 2.53% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 48 35
10th Percentile £500 £511 £355
25th Percentile £522 £525 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +28.95%
75th Percentile £700 £788 £638
90th Percentile - £835 £788
England median daily rate £600 £618 £575
% change year-on-year -2.83% +7.39% +9.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 8
10th Percentile - £72.65 £73.05
25th Percentile - £82.50 -
Median hourly rate - £83.31 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.08% +28.91%
75th Percentile - £83.40 £79.58
90th Percentile - - £82.15
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,671 3,042 3,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.08% 89.42% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,208 2,335
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 314 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.82% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.64
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.90
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the South West

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +39 61 £650 +4.00% 3
Bristol -4 21 £525 -32.26% 20
Gloucestershire 0 10 £550 -15.38% 9
Dorset +11 4 - - 4
Somerset -5 1 £600 -13.04% 8
Devon - 1 - - 3
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.04%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.04%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.07%) Azure
2 5 (5.05%) AWS
2 5 (5.05%) GCP
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.02%) IaaS
4 2 (2.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) Network Security
2 4 (4.04%) DNS
2 4 (4.04%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.04%) IPsec
2 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.02%) Firewall
3 2 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.01%) VPN
4 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) Couchbase
1 4 (4.04%) MySQL
1 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
General
1 47 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.14%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.09%) Military
5 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.05%) Legal
6 4 (4.04%) Finance
7 1 (1.01%) Electronics
7 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (27.27%) Analyst
2 24 (24.24%) Lead
3 14 (14.14%) SOC Analyst
4 13 (13.13%) Architect
5 9 (9.09%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 9 (9.09%) SOC Manager
6 8 (8.08%) Lead Architect
6 8 (8.08%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.05%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Desktop Support
8 4 (4.04%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared Project Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Information Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Security Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Security Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) SIEM Analyst
10 2 (2.02%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.04%) JSON
2 4 (4.04%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (4.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (59.60%) Management Information System
2 45 (45.45%) Cyber Defence
3 39 (39.39%) Cyber Threat
4 37 (37.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 29 (29.29%) Security Operations Centre
6 16 (16.16%) CSOC
7 8 (8.08%) CESG
8 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
9 4 (4.04%) CMDB
10 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
11 1 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (1.01%) Hackathon
11 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Linux
2 6 (6.06%) Windows
3 5 (5.05%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.04%) CentOS
4 4 (4.04%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (76.77%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (55.56%) Incident Response
3 54 (54.55%) Threat Intelligence
4 46 (46.46%) SIEM
5 45 (45.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 43 (43.43%) Use Case
7 39 (39.39%) Security Operations
8 38 (38.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 37 (37.37%) Mentoring
10 36 (36.36%) SOAR
11 35 (35.35%) Case Management
11 35 (35.35%) CRM
11 35 (35.35%) Incident Management
11 35 (35.35%) Root Cause Analysis
12 34 (34.34%) Protective Monitoring
13 18 (18.18%) ITIL
14 14 (14.14%) Agile
14 14 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (12.12%) Information Assurance
15 12 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.04%) PHP
3 2 (2.02%) Bash
4 1 (1.01%) Julia
4 1 (1.01%) Perl
4 1 (1.01%) Python
4 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (80.81%) Security Cleared
2 64 (64.65%) DV Cleared
3 18 (18.18%) CISSP
4 17 (17.17%) CISM
5 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
6 9 (9.09%) CISA
7 8 (8.08%) CEH
7 8 (8.08%) CISMP
7 8 (8.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (8.08%) ISACA
7 8 (8.08%) SSCP
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.01%) CCNP
8 1 (1.01%) CCSP
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (62.63%) NIST
2 45 (45.45%) NIST 800
3 31 (31.31%) GDPR
4 17 (17.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (16.16%) NCSC
6 13 (13.13%) HIPAA
7 9 (9.09%) PCI DSS
8 4 (4.04%) QA
9 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.01%) GRC
10 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.07%) Kibana
1 7 (7.07%) logstash
2 6 (6.06%) Terraform
3 4 (4.04%) Ansible
3 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.04%) SCCM
4 1 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (43.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Tanium
3 5 (5.05%) Google
4 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.01%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.01%) SAP