Security Manager Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Security Manager
South East > Berkshire

The median Security Manager daily rate in Berkshire is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 99 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 11 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.91% 0.71% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.79% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 11
10th Percentile £422 £500 £513
25th Percentile £450 £544 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £601 - £700
South East median daily rate £527 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.30% +6.82% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,100 1,528 1,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 90.95% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 815 1,067
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 70 60
10th Percentile £14.75 £30.12 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £55.97 £46.93
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +5.40% +16.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.15 £72.65
90th Percentile £87.64 £97.75 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.89% +16.68% +105.00%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in Berkshire

Security Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Manager job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Manager job vacancies in Berkshire

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in Berkshire

Security Manager
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 2025. 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
Reading +24 8 £527 -18.92% 3
Bracknell -1 1 £450 -7.69%
Security Manager
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 2 (18.18%) ADO
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Logistics
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Legal
5 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 2 (18.18%) Release Management
5 2 (18.18%) Network Security
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Change Control
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) Power BI
5 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing

Security Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Change Management
4 3 (27.27%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Change Control
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Logistics
5 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Release Management
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 19650
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media