Information Security Contracts in England

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 112 111 141
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing Information Security 743 1,110 1,391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.01% 2.32% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.58% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 827 960
10th Percentile £363 £400 £391
25th Percentile £475 £500 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +7.39% +9.32%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £675
90th Percentile £802 £816 £775
UK median daily rate £595 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -0.83% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.86 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £60.35 £26.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.75 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.26% +82.53% -28.67%
75th Percentile £23.00 £83.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £25.00 - £79.04
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -74.00% +80.72% -17.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in England

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in England

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -14 348 £575 -11.20% 234
South East 0 128 £568 -6.97% 100
South West +27 99 £600 -7.69% 48
North of England +29 93 £586 +6.55% 94
Midlands +14 67 £645 +17.27% 83
North West +5 51 £600 +9.09% 42
West Midlands -12 42 £648 +10.21% 50
Yorkshire +28 38 £582 +3.93% 41
East Midlands +20 21 £500 -4.76% 33
East of England -38 7 £378 -8.48% 33
North East +15 4 £525 -12.50% 11
Information Security
UK

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.81%) Apache
2 6 (0.81%) nginx
3 5 (0.67%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.54%) Confluence
4 4 (0.54%) IIS
5 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 28 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.13%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP CRM
1 2 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (17.90%) Azure
2 92 (12.38%) AWS
3 68 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.33%) SaaS
5 41 (5.52%) GCP
6 37 (4.98%) IaaS
7 21 (2.83%) Entra ID
8 20 (2.69%) PaaS
9 18 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
10 12 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.21%) Mimecast
12 7 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (0.94%) GitHub
12 7 (0.94%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.81%) Serverless
14 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.54%) Power Platform
15 3 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 97 (13.06%) Network Security
2 57 (7.67%) Firewall
3 27 (3.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 24 (3.23%) DNS
5 23 (3.10%) VPN
6 15 (2.02%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.88%) WAN
8 13 (1.75%) HTTPS
9 11 (1.48%) LAN
9 11 (1.48%) Wireless
10 7 (0.94%) DHCP
11 6 (0.81%) Internet
11 6 (0.81%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.81%) SAN
12 5 (0.67%) Intranet
12 5 (0.67%) IPsec
12 5 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.54%) HTTP
13 4 (0.54%) MPLS
13 4 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.10%) Big Data
2 9 (1.21%) MySQL
3 8 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 7 (0.94%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.67%) GIS
6 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.54%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.40%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.40%) Metadata
8 3 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.40%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.42%) GitLab
3 17 (2.29%) JIRA
4 7 (0.94%) Maven
5 5 (0.67%) Postman
6 3 (0.40%) Git
7 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.27%) RStudio
7 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.13%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.13%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.13%) Xcode
General
1 226 (30.42%) Social Skills
2 183 (24.63%) Finance
3 118 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.27%) Legal
6 40 (5.38%) Telecoms
7 38 (5.11%) Banking
8 29 (3.90%) Manufacturing
9 22 (2.96%) Law
10 21 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.69%) Marketing
12 13 (1.75%) Retail
13 11 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.48%) Military
14 10 (1.35%) Front Office
15 8 (1.08%) Electronics
16 7 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 118 (15.88%) Analyst
2 98 (13.19%) Architect
3 79 (10.63%) Security Architect
4 70 (9.42%) Consultant
5 54 (7.27%) Security Consultant
6 50 (6.73%) Lead
7 43 (5.79%) Security Engineer
7 43 (5.79%) Senior
8 42 (5.65%) Security Manager
9 38 (5.11%) Project Manager
10 33 (4.44%) Security Analyst
11 29 (3.90%) SOC Analyst
12 26 (3.50%) Security Specialist
13 25 (3.36%) Information Manager
14 24 (3.23%) Information Security Consultant
14 24 (3.23%) Information Security Manager
15 20 (2.69%) Developer
16 18 (2.42%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 18 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (2.29%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.42%) Apache NiFi
2 16 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (1.48%) HTML
4 10 (1.35%) LDAP
5 9 (1.21%) CSS
5 9 (1.21%) SailPoint
6 7 (0.94%) Hibernate
6 7 (0.94%) JPA
6 7 (0.94%) JSON
7 6 (0.81%) .NET
7 6 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (0.81%) SAML
7 6 (0.81%) YAML
8 5 (0.67%) Web Services
9 4 (0.54%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.54%) EDI
9 4 (0.54%) LEMP Stack
10 3 (0.40%) Node.js
10 3 (0.40%) REST
10 3 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 221 (29.74%) Management Information System
2 88 (11.84%) Cyber Defence
3 78 (10.50%) Cyber Threat
4 58 (7.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 45 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 30 (4.04%) Security Posture
7 20 (2.69%) Distributed Applications
8 18 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.29%) CSOC
10 15 (2.02%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.88%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 13 (1.75%) CMDB
12 13 (1.75%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.08%) CESG
16 7 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 7 (0.94%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 95 (12.79%) Windows
2 49 (6.59%) Linux
3 29 (3.90%) Apple iOS
4 23 (3.10%) Unix
5 22 (2.96%) Android
6 21 (2.83%) Windows Server
7 18 (2.42%) Windows 10
8 13 (1.75%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.54%) CentOS
9 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.27%) Solaris
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (43.74%) Cybersecurity
2 134 (18.03%) SIEM
3 128 (17.23%) Risk Management
4 123 (16.55%) Security Operations
5 120 (16.15%) Incident Response
6 101 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (13.19%) Agile
8 93 (12.52%) Security Architecture
9 86 (11.57%) Threat Intelligence
10 83 (11.17%) Incident Management
11 80 (10.77%) Cloud Security
12 75 (10.09%) Use Case
13 70 (9.42%) Vulnerability Management
14 69 (9.29%) Identity Access Management
14 69 (9.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 67 (9.02%) Root Cause Analysis
16 66 (8.88%) Project Management
17 65 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 65 (8.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 65 (8.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 44 (5.92%) PowerShell
2 32 (4.31%) Python
3 23 (3.10%) Java
4 16 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.02%) SQL
6 9 (1.21%) Bash
7 8 (1.08%) Perl
7 8 (1.08%) Swift
8 6 (0.81%) C++
9 5 (0.67%) C#
10 4 (0.54%) PHP
11 3 (0.40%) Go
11 3 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.27%) AWK
12 2 (0.27%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.27%) Korn
12 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.27%) R
13 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 189 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 136 (18.30%) CISSP
3 109 (14.67%) DV Cleared
4 107 (14.40%) CISM
5 99 (13.32%) Degree
6 83 (11.17%) SC Cleared
7 43 (5.79%) CISA
8 39 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (3.23%) CEH
10 20 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.15%) ISACA
12 15 (2.02%) CRISC
12 15 (2.02%) GIAC
13 13 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (1.35%) CCNP
15 10 (1.35%) CCSP
15 10 (1.35%) CREST Certified
15 10 (1.35%) PMI Certification
15 10 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (23.96%) NIST
2 141 (18.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (10.77%) GDPR
4 66 (8.88%) NIST 800
5 44 (5.92%) PCI DSS
6 38 (5.11%) GRC
7 35 (4.71%) NCSC
8 31 (4.17%) QA
9 27 (3.63%) COBIT
10 21 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 20 (2.69%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (2.69%) SLA
12 17 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (2.15%) HIPAA
14 10 (1.35%) Data Quality
15 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.67%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.67%) PMO
18 3 (0.40%) IASME
System Software
1 67 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.62%) Docker
4 10 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.54%) XenApp
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (5.52%) Terraform
2 29 (3.90%) SCCM
3 19 (2.56%) Ansible
4 17 (2.29%) Kibana
4 17 (2.29%) logstash
5 16 (2.15%) Kubernetes
6 13 (1.75%) Nessus
7 12 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.08%) CASB
9 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.67%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.67%) Puppet
10 5 (0.67%) QRadar
11 4 (0.54%) Podman
11 4 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.54%) WSUS
12 3 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.40%) Packer
13 2 (0.27%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.27%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 200 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.10%) Google
3 22 (2.96%) Oracle
3 22 (2.96%) Red Hat
4 20 (2.69%) Cisco
5 19 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.42%) VMware
7 16 (2.15%) Okta
8 13 (1.75%) Citrix
8 13 (1.75%) SAP
9 11 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.35%) Qualys
11 9 (1.21%) Tanium
12 8 (1.08%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.08%) Splunk
13 7 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.94%) Workday
14 6 (0.81%) Apple
14 6 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.81%) Computacenter