Cybersecurity Manager Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Manager
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in England is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 491 508
Rank change year-on-year +33 +17 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 28 68 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 55 94
10th Percentile £418 £478 £500
25th Percentile £461 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £620
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +0.81% +11.71%
75th Percentile £581 £661 £688
90th Percentile £654 £748 £725
UK median daily rate £540 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -11.84% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.31 £30.70 £62.00
Median hourly rate £47.44 £31.80 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% -50.31% -
75th Percentile £48.57 £32.90 £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.44 £31.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% -50.31% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 23,170 34,772 44,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.87% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,220 22,729 31,567
10th Percentile £293 £293 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,631 1,333
10th Percentile £13.90 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.95 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%
75th Percentile £57.52 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in England

Cybersecurity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Manager in England

Cybersecurity Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in England

Cybersecurity Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
London +20 8 £463 -28.85% 14
South East +45 5 £525 -16.00% 7
North of England +18 5 £550 +10.00% 6
Yorkshire +7 4 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands +5 4 £450 -26.53% 9
West Midlands 0 3 £500 -18.37% 4
South West +45 2 £700 +33.33% 11
East of England +21 1 - - 6
East Midlands +5 1 £400 - 5
North West +2 1 £530 +21.14% 4
Cybersecurity Manager
UK

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Cybersecurity 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (46.43%) Project Management
3 10 (35.71%) Information Security
4 9 (32.14%) Risk Management
5 8 (28.57%) NIST
6 7 (25.00%) Finance
7 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
8 5 (17.86%) Security Management
8 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
8 5 (17.86%) CISSP
8 5 (17.86%) Azure
8 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (17.86%) Security Operations
8 5 (17.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (14.29%) PMI Certification
9 4 (14.29%) PRINCE2
9 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 4 (14.29%) CISM
9 4 (14.29%) Firewall
9 4 (14.29%) Project Planning
9 4 (14.29%) Degree
9 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (14.29%) Agile
9 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
10 3 (10.71%) Scrum
10 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Project

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (7.14%) Local Government
6 1 (3.57%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Police
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) PMI
3 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) CCTV
4 1 (3.57%) CMDB
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (46.43%) Project Management
3 10 (35.71%) Information Security
4 9 (32.14%) Risk Management
5 5 (17.86%) Security Management
5 5 (17.86%) Security Operations
5 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 4 (14.29%) Project Planning
6 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.71%) Contingency Planning
7 3 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
7 3 (10.71%) PRINCE
7 3 (10.71%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (10.71%) Scrum
7 3 (10.71%) SIEM
7 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) CISM
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) CISA
4 2 (7.14%) PMP
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) NIST
2 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (17.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (10.71%) GDPR
5 2 (7.14%) NCSC
6 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.57%) Meraki
2 1 (3.57%) Qualys
2 1 (3.57%) Sophos