Information Security Manager Contracts in England

Information Security Manager
UK > England

The median Information Security Manager daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 509 554
Rank change year-on-year +28 +45 +131
Contract jobs requiring an Information Security Manager 22 24 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.079% 0.072% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.077% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 41
10th Percentile £260 £519 £519
25th Percentile £400 £569 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £658 £650
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +1.15% -
75th Percentile £531 £703 £760
90th Percentile £636 £744 £825
UK median daily rate £450 £658 £625
% change year-on-year -31.56% +5.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.75
Median hourly rate - - £31.50
75th Percentile - - £32.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £31.50

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 25,459 31,161 42,955
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 92.94% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,518 20,586 30,286
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,307 1,856 1,344
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.16 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.65 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +13 13 £480 -20.00% 10
South West +25 4 £600 -9.77% 3
South East +22 4 £450 -30.77% 4
East of England - 1 £249 -
Information Security Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 21 (95.45%) Information Security
2 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (36.36%) Degree
3 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
4 7 (31.82%) CISSP
4 7 (31.82%) CISM
5 6 (27.27%) Information Assurance
5 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) CRISC
6 5 (22.73%) Finance
7 4 (18.18%) Project Management
7 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
7 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (13.64%) EBIOS
8 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
8 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
8 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
8 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
8 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
8 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
8 3 (13.64%) ITIL

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) GCP
1 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Military
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Information Security
2 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 6 (27.27%) Information Assurance
5 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
6 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
6 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
6 3 (13.64%) EBIOS
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
7 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 2 (9.09%) Information Management
7 2 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 7 (31.82%) CISM
2 7 (31.82%) CISSP
2 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) CRISC
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
5 3 (13.64%) PMP
5 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
6 2 (9.09%) CISMP
7 1 (4.55%) CISA
7 1 (4.55%) ISEB
7 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) PMO
3 1 (4.55%) COBIT
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Virgin Media