Information Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 107 119
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Information Security 424 526 665
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.00% 2.32% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.60% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 372 453
10th Percentile £425 £273 £350
25th Percentile £500 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £655 £638
90th Percentile £736 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 14
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.68 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.48 £31.41 £31.41
Median hourly rate £19.50 £76.50 £70.63
Median % change year-on-year -74.51% +8.31% +21.40%
75th Percentile £19.75 £83.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £30.71 - £80.57
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £40.75
% change year-on-year -74.00% +84.05% -18.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,592 20,238 27,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.10% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 13,876 18,979
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,255 1,329
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.46 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.97 £74.92 £63.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +6 133 £575 -4.56% 77
South West +23 102 £600 -7.69% 48
North of England +28 94 £582 +5.82% 76
Midlands +9 71 £629 +14.43% 80
North West +3 51 £600 +9.09% 37
Scotland +25 46 £575 +4.55% 16
West Midlands -10 42 £645 +12.17% 55
Yorkshire +16 39 £582 +5.56% 33
East Midlands +23 23 £500 -4.76% 25
East of England -40 7 £378 -20.53% 27
North East +16 4 £525 -12.50% 6
Wales +5 3 £638 +70.00% 5
Information Security
UK

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.94%) Apache Solr
1 4 (0.94%) nginx
1 4 (0.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) SAP CRM
1 2 (0.47%) SAP IS-U
1 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (14.15%) Azure
2 37 (8.73%) AWS
3 35 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.72%) SaaS
5 12 (2.83%) GCP
5 12 (2.83%) IaaS
6 11 (2.59%) PaaS
7 9 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.94%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.47%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.47%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.47%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.47%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.24%) GitHub
12 1 (0.24%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 67 (15.80%) Network Security
2 27 (6.37%) Firewall
3 21 (4.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 12 (2.83%) VPN
5 9 (2.12%) HTTPS
6 8 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.89%) Wireless
7 7 (1.65%) DNS
8 6 (1.42%) LAN
8 6 (1.42%) WAN
9 5 (1.18%) SAN
10 4 (0.94%) IPsec
10 4 (0.94%) SCCP
11 3 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (0.71%) Intranet
11 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.24%) Internet
13 1 (0.24%) NAS
13 1 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.72%) Big Data
2 5 (1.18%) MySQL
3 4 (0.94%) Couchbase
3 4 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.47%) GIS
5 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.24%) Metadata
6 1 (0.24%) Power BI
6 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (0.94%) JIRA
2 2 (0.47%) Git
2 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.24%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.24%) AppScan
3 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.24%) GitLab
3 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.24%) MSI
3 1 (0.24%) Postman
3 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
3 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.24%) Subversion
3 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.24%) Xcode
General
1 131 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.45%) Public Sector
3 70 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.26%) Finance
5 41 (9.67%) Legal
6 31 (7.31%) Telecoms
7 22 (5.19%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.07%) Law
9 12 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.59%) Marketing
10 11 (2.59%) Military
11 8 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.42%) Banking
12 6 (1.42%) Police
13 5 (1.18%) Automotive
13 5 (1.18%) Electronics
14 4 (0.94%) Retail
15 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.47%) Billing
16 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (17.69%) Analyst
2 45 (10.61%) Lead
3 38 (8.96%) Consultant
4 37 (8.73%) Architect
5 31 (7.31%) Security Analyst
5 31 (7.31%) Senior
6 27 (6.37%) Security Architect
6 27 (6.37%) Security Consultant
7 23 (5.42%) Project Manager
8 20 (4.72%) SOC Analyst
9 15 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 15 (3.54%) Security Specialist
10 14 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 13 (3.07%) Cyber Defence Analyst
11 13 (3.07%) Security Manager
12 12 (2.83%) Information Security Consultant
12 12 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.83%) IT Manager
13 11 (2.59%) Information Manager
13 11 (2.59%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.25%) Apache NiFi
2 14 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.65%) HTML
4 6 (1.42%) JSON
5 5 (1.18%) CSS
5 5 (1.18%) YAML
6 4 (0.94%) LDAP
6 4 (0.94%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.71%) .NET
7 3 (0.71%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.47%) REST
9 1 (0.24%) HTML5
9 1 (0.24%) J2EE
9 1 (0.24%) JSP
9 1 (0.24%) OAuth
9 1 (0.24%) RESTful
9 1 (0.24%) SOAP
9 1 (0.24%) Swagger
9 1 (0.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 169 (39.86%) Management Information System
2 76 (17.92%) Cyber Defence
3 60 (14.15%) Cyber Threat
4 49 (11.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 34 (8.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 20 (4.72%) Distributed Applications
7 18 (4.25%) CSOC
8 15 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (3.07%) Operational Technology
9 13 (3.07%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.59%) Data Centre
11 10 (2.36%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.89%) CESG
12 8 (1.89%) CMDB
13 6 (1.42%) IoT
14 5 (1.18%) Cloud Native
14 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
14 5 (1.18%) PMI
15 4 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
15 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (14.62%) Windows
2 42 (9.91%) Linux
3 26 (6.13%) Apple iOS
4 22 (5.19%) Android
5 19 (4.48%) Unix
6 13 (3.07%) Windows 10
7 11 (2.59%) Windows 7
8 10 (2.36%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.94%) CentOS
10 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.47%) Solaris
10 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (52.36%) Cybersecurity
2 107 (25.24%) SIEM
3 88 (20.75%) Incident Response
4 78 (18.40%) Risk Management
4 78 (18.40%) Security Operations
5 75 (17.69%) Threat Intelligence
6 74 (17.45%) Incident Management
7 68 (16.04%) Use Case
8 60 (14.15%) Mentoring
9 58 (13.68%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 58 (13.68%) Security Architecture
10 57 (13.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 55 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (11.56%) Vulnerability Management
13 48 (11.32%) CRM
14 47 (11.08%) Case Management
14 47 (11.08%) Root Cause Analysis
14 47 (11.08%) SOAR
15 45 (10.61%) Protective Monitoring
16 43 (10.14%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.19%) PowerShell
2 11 (2.59%) Python
3 8 (1.89%) Swift
4 6 (1.42%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.18%) Bash
6 4 (0.94%) PHP
6 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.71%) C#
7 3 (0.71%) Java
7 3 (0.71%) Perl
8 2 (0.47%) AWK
8 2 (0.47%) Bourne shell
8 2 (0.47%) Korn
8 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.24%) C
9 1 (0.24%) C++
9 1 (0.24%) Julia
9 1 (0.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (37.03%) Security Cleared
2 100 (23.58%) DV Cleared
3 61 (14.39%) CISSP
4 56 (13.21%) SC Cleared
5 44 (10.38%) CISM
6 37 (8.73%) Degree
7 20 (4.72%) CISA
8 15 (3.54%) ISACA
9 13 (3.07%) CEH
9 13 (3.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 10 (2.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 9 (2.12%) SSCP
12 8 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.89%) CISMP
12 8 (1.89%) CRISC
13 6 (1.42%) CCNP
13 6 (1.42%) ISEB
14 5 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (29.95%) NIST
2 96 (22.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (13.92%) NIST 800
4 55 (12.97%) GDPR
5 29 (6.84%) PCI DSS
6 18 (4.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 18 (4.25%) NCSC
7 15 (3.54%) COBIT
7 15 (3.54%) GRC
8 14 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (3.30%) HIPAA
8 14 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 10 (2.36%) SLA
10 9 (2.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (2.12%) QA
11 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
11 7 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.71%) IASME
13 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 23 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.94%) Docker
4 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.47%) Firmware
5 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.47%) XenApp
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.07%) Kibana
1 13 (3.07%) logstash
2 11 (2.59%) SCCM
3 10 (2.36%) Terraform
4 8 (1.89%) Ansible
5 6 (1.42%) Nessus
6 5 (1.18%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.71%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.71%) Puppet
7 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.47%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.47%) WSUS
8 2 (0.47%) yum
9 1 (0.24%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.24%) Nagios
9 1 (0.24%) WebInspect
9 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 117 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.95%) Red Hat
3 11 (2.59%) Cisco
3 11 (2.59%) Citrix
4 10 (2.36%) Tanium
4 10 (2.36%) VMware
5 8 (1.89%) Google
5 8 (1.89%) Okta
5 8 (1.89%) SAP
6 6 (1.42%) Splunk
7 5 (1.18%) Computacenter
7 5 (1.18%) Reuters
8 4 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.94%) Rapid7
8 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.71%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.71%) EMC
9 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.71%) Veritas
9 3 (0.71%) Zscaler