Security Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 337 382
Rank change year-on-year +17 +45 -91
Contract jobs citing Security Management 65 120 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.57% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 82 91
10th Percentile £347 £463 £413
25th Percentile £411 £550 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +13.86%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £681
90th Percentile £778 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £80.34 £42.93 -
25th Percentile £80.85 £44.31 -
Median hourly rate £81.71 £47.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.92% - -
75th Percentile £82.56 £50.81 -
90th Percentile £83.07 £52.58 -
UK median hourly rate £81.71 £42.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +94.54% +52.73% -27.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security Management 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in the UK excluding London

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Management in the UK excluding London

Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Management in the UK excluding London

Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Management in the UK excluding London

Security Management
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 Security Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 -9 19 £495 -27.68% 21
South West +20 15 £688 +10.00% 9
Scotland +31 12 £344 -42.71% 9
North of England +26 12 £575 +15.00% 8
North West +23 7 £575 +9.52% 5
Midlands +11 5 £525 -12.50% 11
West Midlands +5 4 £575 -4.17% 5
Yorkshire +23 3 £575 +21.05%
East of England +7 3 £550 - 7
North East - 2 £423 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £250 - 6
Security Management
UK

Security Management
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 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) Azure
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.54%) AWS
5 1 (1.54%) IaaS
5 1 (1.54%) PaaS
5 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.00%) Network Security
2 11 (16.92%) Firewall
3 5 (7.69%) NAS
3 5 (7.69%) SAN
3 5 (7.69%) VLAN
3 5 (7.69%) VoIP
3 5 (7.69%) VPN
4 4 (6.15%) DNS
4 4 (6.15%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.15%) iSCSI
4 4 (6.15%) SSL
4 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.08%) AMQP
5 2 (3.08%) DMZ
5 2 (3.08%) Modbus
5 2 (3.08%) MQTT
5 2 (3.08%) VSAN
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.54%) SCCP
6 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.15%) Metadata
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database 12c
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 2 (3.08%) Tableau
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 18 (27.69%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Police
4 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.08%) Finance
6 1 (1.54%) Billing
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
6 1 (1.54%) Military
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Consultant
2 15 (23.08%) Security Consultant
3 12 (18.46%) Architect
3 12 (18.46%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 9 (13.85%) Lead
5 6 (9.23%) DBA
6 5 (7.69%) Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Security Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Information Manager
9 2 (3.08%) Server Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Support Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.08%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (3.08%) JSON
2 2 (3.08%) Web Services
2 2 (3.08%) XML
2 2 (3.08%) XSLT
3 1 (1.54%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (16.92%) Data Centre
3 9 (13.85%) Blog
3 9 (13.85%) Replication
4 5 (7.69%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.15%) PKI
6 3 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.08%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.08%) IoT
7 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.54%) Clustering
8 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.54%) Linux
2 8 (12.31%) Unix
3 7 (10.77%) Windows
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Cybersecurity
1 32 (49.23%) Information Security
2 29 (44.62%) Information Security Management
3 20 (30.77%) Risk Management
4 17 (26.15%) Data Protection
5 16 (24.62%) ITIL
6 13 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (20.00%) ISMS
6 13 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (15.38%) OWASP
7 10 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (13.85%) Application Security
8 9 (13.85%) Change Management
8 9 (13.85%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (12.31%) Budget Management
9 8 (12.31%) Conflict Resolution
10 7 (10.77%) Budgeting
10 7 (10.77%) Capacity Management
10 7 (10.77%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) SQL
2 7 (10.77%) PL/SQL
3 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (44.62%) Security Cleared
2 28 (43.08%) SC Cleared
3 16 (24.62%) CISSP
4 14 (21.54%) CISM
5 9 (13.85%) Degree
6 8 (12.31%) CRISC
7 7 (10.77%) ISACA
8 6 (9.23%) CISA
8 6 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (7.69%) DV Cleared
9 5 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (7.69%) SAP Certification
10 4 (6.15%) CCNA
10 4 (6.15%) CGEIT
10 4 (6.15%) MCSE
10 4 (6.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (3.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 1 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.77%) NIST
2 18 (27.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (16.92%) GDPR
4 10 (15.38%) COBIT
5 8 (12.31%) NCSC
6 6 (9.23%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (3.08%) GRC
7 2 (3.08%) SLA
8 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.54%) JSP 440
8 1 (1.54%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.54%) RMADS
System Software
1 13 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.69%) Firmware
2 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (6.15%) vSphere
4 2 (3.08%) Docker
4 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Data Guard
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (3.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.00%) Oracle
3 7 (10.77%) SAP
3 7 (10.77%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) CA
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.54%) Cadence
5 1 (1.54%) Citrix
5 1 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.54%) HP
5 1 (1.54%) Meraki
5 1 (1.54%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.54%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.54%) Veeam