Cyber Security Incident Manager Contracts

Cybersecurity Incident Manager
UK

The median Cybersecurity Incident Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 714 865
Rank change year-on-year +137 +151 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Cyber Security Incident Manager 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.004% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £568 £479
25th Percentile - £594 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £655 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +27.80% -
75th Percentile - £724 £534
90th Percentile - £755 £536
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Cyber Security Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Security Incident Manager in the UK

Cyber Security Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Security Incident Manager in the UK

Cyber Security Incident Manager
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Security Incident Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Work from Home +130 1 £550 -26.67%
England +107 1 £550 -16.03%
UK excluding London - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Cyber Security Incident Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Cyber Security Incident 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 featuring Cyber Security Incident Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) OLE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills

Cyber Security Incident Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk