Security Manager Contracts in England

Security Manager
UK > England

The median Security Manager daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 332 414
Rank change year-on-year -44 +82 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 166 341 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.71% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.75% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 255 309
10th Percentile £463 £500 £444
25th Percentile £527 £550 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% +15.00%
75th Percentile £684 £713 £675
90th Percentile £775 £823 £770
UK median daily rate £625 £618 £550
% change year-on-year +1.21% +12.27% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 £78.25
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% +274.42%
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
% change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% +274.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
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 Security Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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 -20 97 £650 +4.00% 58
South West +11 21 £525 -25.96% 4
South East -7 15 £625 +2.04% 21
Midlands +21 13 £613 +11.36% 15
West Midlands +17 13 £613 +11.36% 8
North of England +24 11 £500 -9.09% 15
North West +26 6 £676 +20.18% 6
Yorkshire +18 5 £500 -4.76% 9
East of England +5 5 £550 -7.56% 12
Security Manager
UK

Security Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Security Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 86 (51.81%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (38.55%) Project Management
3 59 (35.54%) Finance
4 43 (25.90%) Information Security
5 33 (19.88%) CISSP
6 31 (18.67%) Risk Management
6 31 (18.67%) Project Delivery
7 29 (17.47%) Social Skills
7 29 (17.47%) CISM
8 27 (16.27%) Security Cleared
9 24 (14.46%) PRINCE2
9 24 (14.46%) Static Application Security Testing
9 24 (14.46%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 22 (13.25%) Microsoft
10 22 (13.25%) Agile
11 21 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (12.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 21 (12.65%) Cloud Security
12 20 (12.05%) Business Case
12 20 (12.05%) Management Information System
13 19 (11.45%) SC Cleared
13 19 (11.45%) PMI Certification
14 18 (10.84%) CISA
14 18 (10.84%) NIST
15 17 (10.24%) Vulnerability Management
16 16 (9.64%) Security Operations
17 15 (9.04%) Programme Management
18 14 (8.43%) Degree
18 14 (8.43%) Decision-Making
18 14 (8.43%) Incident Response

Security Manager Skill Set
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 3 (1.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.23%) Azure
2 5 (3.01%) AWS
3 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.81%) Akamai
4 3 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.81%) Cloudflare
4 3 (1.81%) Mimecast
4 3 (1.81%) SaaS
5 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.20%) IaaS
5 2 (1.20%) PaaS
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.22%) Network Security
2 6 (3.61%) Firewall
3 3 (1.81%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.20%) LAN
4 2 (1.20%) SNA
4 2 (1.20%) WAN
4 2 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.60%) VoIP
5 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.60%) Apache Hive
1 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 59 (35.54%) Finance
2 29 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.23%) Financial Institution
4 11 (6.63%) Banking
5 9 (5.42%) Legal
6 8 (4.82%) Law
6 8 (4.82%) Military
6 8 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Publishing
7 5 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.41%) Retail
9 3 (1.81%) Marketing
10 2 (1.20%) Automotive
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.60%) OLE
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.05%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.42%) PMI
3 7 (4.22%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.81%) CCTV
5 3 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.81%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.60%) Life Science
7 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.60%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Linux
1 4 (2.41%) Windows
2 3 (1.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (51.81%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (38.55%) Project Management
3 43 (25.90%) Information Security
4 31 (18.67%) Project Delivery
4 31 (18.67%) Risk Management
5 24 (14.46%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 24 (14.46%) PRINCE2
5 24 (14.46%) Static Application Security Testing
6 22 (13.25%) Agile
7 21 (12.65%) Cloud Security
7 21 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (12.05%) Business Case
9 17 (10.24%) Vulnerability Management
10 16 (9.64%) Security Operations
11 15 (9.04%) Programme Management
12 14 (8.43%) Decision-Making
12 14 (8.43%) Incident Response
13 13 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (7.83%) SIEM
14 11 (6.63%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.81%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (19.88%) CISSP
2 29 (17.47%) CISM
3 27 (16.27%) Security Cleared
4 19 (11.45%) PMI Certification
4 19 (11.45%) SC Cleared
5 18 (10.84%) CISA
6 14 (8.43%) Degree
7 11 (6.63%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.63%) PMP
8 5 (3.01%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.41%) MBA
10 3 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.20%) CCIE
11 2 (1.20%) CCIE Security
11 2 (1.20%) CCNA
11 2 (1.20%) CCNP
11 2 (1.20%) CCSP
11 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.20%) CSSLP
11 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (10.84%) NIST
3 8 (4.82%) GDPR
4 5 (3.01%) GRC
5 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.41%) QA
6 2 (1.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.60%) COBIT
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (0.60%) CASB
1 1 (0.60%) Kibana
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.61%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.81%) Cisco
3 3 (1.81%) F5
3 3 (1.81%) Splunk
4 2 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.20%) Darktrace
4 2 (1.20%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.20%) SAP
4 2 (1.20%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.60%) Google
5 1 (0.60%) Meraki
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle
5 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.60%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.60%) Sophos
5 1 (0.60%) Tufin