Information Security Manager Contracts in England

Information Security Manager
UK > England

The median Information Security Manager daily rate in England is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 514 591
Rank change year-on-year +47 +77 +103
Contract jobs requiring an Information Security Manager 18 28 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.075% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.081% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 55
10th Percentile £400 £363 £507
25th Percentile £425 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -2.83% -1.20%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £672 £738 £816
UK median daily rate £480 £625 £618
% change year-on-year -23.20% +1.21% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Information Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Manager in England

Information Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security Manager in England

Information Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security Manager in England

Information Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security Manager in England

Information Security 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 Information Security Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +36 12 £480 +1.05% 21
South East +43 3 £450 -23.40% 6
South West +40 2 £625 -6.37% 3
East of England - 1 £519 -
Information Security Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Information 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 England region featuring Information Security Manager in the job title.

1 16 (88.89%) Information Security
2 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (38.89%) CISSP
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (33.33%) CISM
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Degree
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
4 5 (27.78%) CRISC
4 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
5 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) Information Assurance
6 3 (16.67%) Azure
6 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Legal
6 3 (16.67%) EBIOS
6 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (11.11%) GDPR
7 2 (11.11%) NIST
7 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (11.11%) Due Diligence

Information Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Automotive
5 1 (5.56%) Local Government
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Information Security
2 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 3 (16.67%) EBIOS
6 3 (16.67%) Information Assurance
6 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 2 (11.11%) Due Diligence
7 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
7 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Time Management
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) CISSP
2 6 (33.33%) CISM
2 6 (33.33%) Degree
3 5 (27.78%) CRISC
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) CISMP
5 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) CISA
6 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) COBIT
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2