Security Management Contracts in Birmingham

Security Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Security Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 64 74
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +20
Contract jobs citing Security Management 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.15% 0.39% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.47% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £511 - -
25th Percentile £511 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -17.86%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Security Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in Birmingham

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Security Management in Birmingham

Security Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CCTV
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Due Diligence
4 1 (16.67%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) CISA
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (16.67%) GRC
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
1 1 (16.67%) Juniper
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto