Cybersecurity Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 405 440
Rank change year-on-year +45 +35 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 34 41 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 46
10th Percentile £463 £503 £410
25th Percentile £506 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £550
90th Percentile £673 £718 £625
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £548
% change year-on-year - +9.49% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 - -
Median hourly rate £31.80 - -
75th Percentile £32.90 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 -
% change year-on-year -50.31% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
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 Cybersecurity Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands +24 8 £625 +13.64% 1
Midlands +21 8 £625 +13.64% 3
South West +2 6 £525 -26.14% 2
Scotland +44 5 £575 +4.55% 1
North of England +28 5 £500 -13.04% 7
South East +20 5 £575 +9.52% 7
East of England +7 5 £550 -8.33% 1
Yorkshire +18 3 £500 -4.76% 5
North West +15 2 £438 -23.91% 2
Cybersecurity Manager
UK

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Cybersecurity 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (38.24%) Project Management
3 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 9 (26.47%) Privileged Access Management
4 9 (26.47%) Azure
5 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
5 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
6 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 6 (17.65%) Network Security
6 6 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (14.71%) Contingency Planning
7 5 (14.71%) Atlassian
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 5 (14.71%) ITIL
7 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
7 5 (14.71%) Business Case
7 5 (14.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (14.71%) Incident Response
8 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
8 4 (11.76%) Finance
8 4 (11.76%) Agile
8 4 (11.76%) Degree
8 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (8.82%) SIEM
9 3 (8.82%) DevOps
9 3 (8.82%) SDLC

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (8.82%) Akamai
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Network Security
2 2 (5.88%) LAN
2 2 (5.88%) WAN
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Automotive
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.94%) Life Science
3 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.94%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (38.24%) Project Management
3 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (26.47%) Privileged Access Management
5 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
5 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
6 6 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
7 5 (14.71%) Business Case
7 5 (14.71%) Contingency Planning
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.71%) Incident Response
7 5 (14.71%) ITIL
7 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
8 4 (11.76%) Agile
8 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (8.82%) DevOps
9 3 (8.82%) SDLC
9 3 (8.82%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.82%) PMI Certification
2 3 (8.82%) PMP
2 3 (8.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (5.88%) CISSP
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) NCSC
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.82%) F5
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Zscaler