Head of Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Head of Security
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Security daily rate in the UK excluding London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 436 476
Rank change year-on-year +51 +40 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Security 8 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.063% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.067% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 24
10th Percentile £643 £655 £565
25th Percentile £688 £700 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £669
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +15.89% -10.83%
75th Percentile £1,000 £841 £775
90th Percentile - £951 £893
UK median daily rate £875 £700 £675
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.70% -3.57%

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 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Head of Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Security in the UK excluding London

Head of Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Security in the UK excluding London

Head of Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Security in the UK excluding London

Head of 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 Head of Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +27 7 £875 +34.62% 5
East Midlands - 1 £625 - 1
Midlands - 1 £625 - 3
Head of Security
UK

Head of Security Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Head of Security 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 Head of Security in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Information Security
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (50.00%) SIEM
4 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (37.50%) Nessus
5 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (25.00%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
6 2 (25.00%) Windows
6 2 (25.00%) LAN
6 2 (25.00%) WAN
6 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (25.00%) Cisco
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 2 (25.00%) Citrix
6 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (25.00%) Firewall

Head of Security 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Information Security
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (50.00%) SIEM
4 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
6 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity Management
6 2 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (25.00%) Line Management
6 2 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (37.50%) Nessus
3 2 (25.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
1 2 (25.00%) VMware