Security Manager Contracts

Security Manager
UK

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 353 421
Rank change year-on-year -48 +68 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 192 394 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.68% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.72% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 288 378
10th Percentile £463 £500 £429
25th Percentile £525 £550 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £618 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +12.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £715 £650
90th Percentile £775 £825 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
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 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

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 11 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 11 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 -31 168 £625 +0.81% 100
London -21 95 £650 +4.00% 52
Work from Home +33 78 £600 -4.00% 37
UK excluding London +25 75 £600 +4.35% 58
South West +13 21 £525 -25.96% 7
Midlands +30 16 £600 +9.09% 8
South East -4 16 £635 +3.67% 14
West Midlands +19 14 £613 +11.36% 4
North of England +31 11 £550 - 12
Scotland +44 6 £573 +4.09% 7
Yorkshire +15 6 £500 -4.76% 4
North West +16 5 £676 +20.18% 8
East of England +4 5 £550 -7.56% 11
East Midlands +17 1 £600 +20.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 101 (52.60%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (38.02%) Project Management
3 58 (30.21%) Finance
4 49 (25.52%) Information Security
5 38 (19.79%) Social Skills
6 35 (18.23%) Project Delivery
6 35 (18.23%) Risk Management
6 35 (18.23%) CISSP
7 30 (15.63%) CISM
7 30 (15.63%) Security Cleared
8 28 (14.58%) Agile
8 28 (14.58%) Cloud Security
9 27 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 26 (13.54%) PRINCE2
11 25 (13.02%) Microsoft
11 25 (13.02%) Static Application Security Testing
11 25 (13.02%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 23 (11.98%) Management Information System
12 23 (11.98%) Vulnerability Management
13 22 (11.46%) SC Cleared
13 22 (11.46%) NIST
14 21 (10.94%) Security Operations
15 20 (10.42%) Business Case
15 20 (10.42%) PMI Certification
16 19 (9.90%) CISA
17 18 (9.38%) Programme Management
18 17 (8.85%) Incident Response
18 17 (8.85%) Privileged Access Management
19 16 (8.33%) Azure

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 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.52%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.33%) Azure
2 8 (4.17%) AWS
3 6 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.56%) Akamai
5 3 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.56%) Cloudflare
5 3 (1.56%) Mimecast
5 3 (1.56%) SaaS
6 2 (1.04%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.04%) IaaS
6 2 (1.04%) PaaS
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.21%) Network Security
2 9 (4.69%) Firewall
3 5 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.08%) LAN
4 4 (2.08%) WAN
5 2 (1.04%) SNA
5 2 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.04%) Wireless
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.52%) SAN
6 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.52%) VoIP
6 1 (0.52%) VPN
6 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
1 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.52%) MySQL
1 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 58 (30.21%) Finance
2 38 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.81%) Banking
4 14 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.77%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.69%) Law
7 9 (4.69%) Legal
8 8 (4.17%) Military
9 7 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.13%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.60%) Publishing
12 4 (2.08%) Retail
13 3 (1.56%) Marketing
14 2 (1.04%) Automotive
14 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.52%) EDI
1 1 (0.52%) OLE
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.98%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.73%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.69%) PMI
4 6 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.08%) CCTV
7 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.56%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.56%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.52%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.60%) Linux
1 5 (2.60%) Windows
2 3 (1.56%) Unix
3 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (52.60%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (38.02%) Project Management
3 49 (25.52%) Information Security
4 35 (18.23%) Project Delivery
4 35 (18.23%) Risk Management
5 28 (14.58%) Agile
5 28 (14.58%) Cloud Security
6 27 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (13.54%) PRINCE2
8 25 (13.02%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 25 (13.02%) Static Application Security Testing
9 23 (11.98%) Vulnerability Management
10 21 (10.94%) Security Operations
11 20 (10.42%) Business Case
12 18 (9.38%) Programme Management
13 17 (8.85%) Incident Response
13 17 (8.85%) Privileged Access Management
14 15 (7.81%) SIEM
15 14 (7.29%) Decision-Making
16 13 (6.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.56%) Java
2 1 (0.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) CISSP
2 30 (15.63%) CISM
2 30 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.42%) PMI Certification
5 19 (9.90%) CISA
6 16 (8.33%) Degree
7 12 (6.25%) PMP
8 11 (5.73%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.60%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.08%) MBA
11 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.04%) CCIE
12 2 (1.04%) CCIE Security
12 2 (1.04%) CCIE Service Provider
12 2 (1.04%) CCNP
12 2 (1.04%) CCSP
12 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (11.46%) NIST
3 9 (4.69%) GRC
4 8 (4.17%) GDPR
5 5 (2.60%) NCSC
5 5 (2.60%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.60%) QA
6 2 (1.04%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) Snort
3 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.52%) CASB
2 1 (0.52%) Kibana
2 1 (0.52%) PaperCut
2 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.13%) Atlassian
3 5 (2.60%) Cisco
4 3 (1.56%) CyberArk
4 3 (1.56%) F5
4 3 (1.56%) Splunk
5 2 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.04%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.04%) IBM
5 2 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) Aruba
6 1 (0.52%) HP
6 1 (0.52%) Okta
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Sage
6 1 (0.52%) Tufin
6 1 (0.52%) Veeam
6 1 (0.52%) Zscaler
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