Security Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 352 321
Rank change year-on-year +42 -31 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 75 104 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.44% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.47% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 72 155
10th Percentile £473 £488 £427
25th Percentile £513 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +8.21%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £653
90th Percentile £728 £784 £763
UK median daily rate £625 £618 £550
% change year-on-year +1.21% +12.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 - £78.25
Median hourly rate £31.80 - £80.50
75th Percentile £32.90 - £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
% change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% -

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 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £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 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Manager 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 West +20 21 £525 -25.96% 3
Midlands +31 16 £600 +9.09% 8
South East -12 16 £635 +1.60% 11
West Midlands +28 14 £613 +11.36% 4
North of England +26 11 £550 - 12
Scotland +43 6 £573 +4.09% 7
Yorkshire +25 6 £500 -4.76% 3
North West +23 5 £676 +20.18% 9
East of England -4 5 £550 -7.56% 12
East Midlands +16 1 £600 +20.00% 4
Security Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 42 (56.00%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (33.33%) Project Management
3 22 (29.33%) Risk Management
4 19 (25.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
6 16 (21.33%) Information Security
6 16 (21.33%) Agile
7 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
9 13 (17.33%) PRINCE2
9 13 (17.33%) Finance
10 12 (16.00%) CISSP
10 12 (16.00%) Business Case
11 11 (14.67%) Cloud Security
11 11 (14.67%) CISM
12 10 (13.33%) Azure
12 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (12.00%) Security Architecture
13 9 (12.00%) Privileged Access Management
13 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
13 9 (12.00%) DV Cleared
13 9 (12.00%) Programme Management
13 9 (12.00%) PMI Certification
13 9 (12.00%) Project Delivery
13 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
14 8 (10.67%) Security Posture
14 8 (10.67%) Network Security
14 8 (10.67%) Decision-Making
15 7 (9.33%) Contingency Planning
15 7 (9.33%) Coaching

Security 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 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.33%) Azure
2 5 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (4.00%) Akamai
3 3 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (4.00%) AWS
3 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Network Security
2 3 (4.00%) Firewall
2 3 (4.00%) LAN
2 3 (4.00%) WAN
3 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.67%) Wireless
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.33%) SAN
4 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.33%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.33%) MySQL
1 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Finance
3 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.67%) Publishing
5 4 (5.33%) Military
5 4 (5.33%) Retail
6 3 (4.00%) Law
6 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Automotive
7 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Police
8 1 (1.33%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) EDI
1 1 (1.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.33%) CCTV
3 4 (5.33%) PMI
4 3 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.33%) Life Science
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.67%) Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Android
3 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.00%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (33.33%) Project Management
3 22 (29.33%) Risk Management
4 19 (25.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (21.33%) Agile
5 16 (21.33%) Information Security
6 13 (17.33%) PRINCE2
7 12 (16.00%) Business Case
8 11 (14.67%) Cloud Security
9 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (12.00%) Privileged Access Management
10 9 (12.00%) Programme Management
10 9 (12.00%) Project Delivery
10 9 (12.00%) Security Architecture
11 8 (10.67%) Decision-Making
12 7 (9.33%) Coaching
12 7 (9.33%) Contingency Planning
12 7 (9.33%) Incident Response
12 7 (9.33%) ITIL
13 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.00%) CISSP
3 11 (14.67%) CISM
4 9 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (12.00%) PMI Certification
4 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (9.33%) Degree
6 5 (6.67%) CISA
6 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.67%) PMP
7 4 (5.33%) MBA
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (1.33%) CCIE
10 1 (1.33%) CCNA
10 1 (1.33%) CCNP
10 1 (1.33%) CCSP
10 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 2 (2.67%) GRC
3 2 (2.67%) NCSC
3 2 (2.67%) QA
4 1 (1.33%) COBIT
4 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Snort
2 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Kibana
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.33%) PaperCut
1 1 (1.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.00%) Cisco
3 3 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (1.33%) Aruba
4 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.33%) Google
4 1 (1.33%) HP
4 1 (1.33%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.33%) Sage
4 1 (1.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.33%) Veeam
4 1 (1.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.33%) WatchGuard