Security Manager Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Manager
England > East Midlands

The median Security Manager daily rate in the East Midlands is £444, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 56 59
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 6 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.68% 0.17% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.18% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £369 - £620
25th Percentile £409 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
England median daily rate £540 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.69% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 809 548 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 91.95% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 333 491
10th Percentile £180 £228 £200
25th Percentile £352 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £568
90th Percentile £625 £635 £685
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 24 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £12.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +10.23% +16.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £25.18
90th Percentile £25.29 £33.15 £57.80
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Security Manager job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Security Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Manager job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Manager job vacancies in the East Midlands

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the East Midlands

Security Manager
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Nottinghamshire - 4 £463 - 2
Northamptonshire - 2 £420 -
Security Manager
England

Security Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Security Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) CISM
4 1 (16.67%) CISSP
4 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity

Security Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity