Security Manager Contracts

Security Manager
UK

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 351 425
Rank change year-on-year -42 +74 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 195 396 507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.68% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.72% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 290 379
10th Percentile £463 £500 £425
25th Percentile £528 £550 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £618 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +12.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £650
90th Percentile £775 £821 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 £78.25
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% -
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 - £80.50

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
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 £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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
England -38 172 £644 +3.87% 111
London -21 100 £650 +4.00% 58
Work from Home +42 80 £613 -2.00% 41
UK excluding London +40 74 £600 +4.35% 62
South West +17 21 £525 -25.96% 5
Midlands +33 16 £600 +9.09% 9
South East -3 15 £645 +3.20% 16
West Midlands +27 14 £613 +11.36% 5
North of England +22 11 £550 - 14
Scotland +46 6 £573 +4.09% 7
Yorkshire +24 6 £500 -4.76% 3
North West +22 5 £676 +20.18% 11
East of England -5 5 £550 -7.56% 14
East Midlands +17 1 £600 +20.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 102 (52.31%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (40.00%) Project Management
3 62 (31.79%) Finance
4 49 (25.13%) Information Security
5 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 37 (18.97%) Project Delivery
7 35 (17.95%) CISSP
8 34 (17.44%) Risk Management
9 33 (16.92%) Agile
10 32 (16.41%) Security Cleared
11 30 (15.38%) PRINCE2
12 29 (14.87%) CISM
13 27 (13.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 27 (13.85%) Cloud Security
14 26 (13.33%) Static Application Security Testing
14 26 (13.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
14 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (12.82%) Microsoft
16 24 (12.31%) Management Information System
16 24 (12.31%) SC Cleared
16 24 (12.31%) Vulnerability Management
17 23 (11.79%) PMI Certification
18 22 (11.28%) Programme Management
19 21 (10.77%) Business Case
19 21 (10.77%) Security Operations
20 20 (10.26%) NIST
21 19 (9.74%) CISA
22 17 (8.72%) Azure
22 17 (8.72%) Degree
22 17 (8.72%) Privileged Access Management

Security 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 5 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.51%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.72%) Azure
2 8 (4.10%) AWS
3 6 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.05%) SaaS
6 3 (1.54%) Akamai
6 3 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (1.54%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.54%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.03%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.03%) IaaS
7 2 (1.03%) PaaS
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.13%) Network Security
2 9 (4.62%) Firewall
3 5 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.05%) LAN
4 4 (2.05%) SNA
4 4 (2.05%) WAN
5 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.03%) Wireless
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.51%) SAN
6 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.51%) VoIP
6 1 (0.51%) VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
1 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.51%) MySQL
1 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 62 (31.79%) Finance
2 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.21%) Banking
4 13 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.13%) Military
7 9 (4.62%) Law
7 9 (4.62%) Legal
8 7 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.56%) Publishing
11 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.05%) Retail
12 3 (1.54%) Marketing
13 2 (1.03%) Automotive
13 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) EDI
1 1 (0.51%) OLE
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.64%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.62%) PMI
4 6 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.05%) CCTV
7 3 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.54%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.56%) Linux
1 5 (2.56%) Windows
2 3 (1.54%) Unix
3 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Android
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (52.31%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (40.00%) Project Management
3 49 (25.13%) Information Security
4 37 (18.97%) Project Delivery
5 34 (17.44%) Risk Management
6 33 (16.92%) Agile
7 30 (15.38%) PRINCE2
8 27 (13.85%) Cloud Security
9 26 (13.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (13.33%) Static Application Security Testing
10 24 (12.31%) Vulnerability Management
11 22 (11.28%) Programme Management
12 21 (10.77%) Business Case
12 21 (10.77%) Security Operations
13 17 (8.72%) Incident Response
13 17 (8.72%) Privileged Access Management
14 16 (8.21%) Decision-Making
15 15 (7.69%) SIEM
15 15 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.54%) Java
2 1 (0.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (17.95%) CISSP
2 32 (16.41%) Security Cleared
3 29 (14.87%) CISM
4 24 (12.31%) SC Cleared
5 23 (11.79%) PMI Certification
6 19 (9.74%) CISA
7 17 (8.72%) Degree
8 16 (8.21%) PMP
9 12 (6.15%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.05%) MBA
12 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.03%) CCIE
13 2 (1.03%) CCIE Security
13 2 (1.03%) CCIE Service Provider
13 2 (1.03%) CCNP
13 2 (1.03%) CCSP
13 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (10.26%) NIST
3 8 (4.10%) GDPR
3 8 (4.10%) GRC
4 5 (2.56%) NCSC
4 5 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.56%) QA
5 2 (1.03%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) Snort
3 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.51%) CASB
2 1 (0.51%) Kibana
2 1 (0.51%) PaperCut
2 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.08%) Atlassian
3 5 (2.56%) Cisco
4 3 (1.54%) F5
4 3 (1.54%) Splunk
5 2 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.03%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.03%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.03%) IBM
5 2 (1.03%) SAP
5 2 (1.03%) VMware
6 1 (0.51%) HP
6 1 (0.51%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.51%) Sage
6 1 (0.51%) Sophos
6 1 (0.51%) Zscaler