IT Security Manager Contracts in England

IT Security Manager
UK > England

The median IT Security Manager daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 613 751
Rank change year-on-year +102 +138 -134
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Manager 29 42 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.079% 0.086% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.090% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 30
10th Percentile £549 £469 £434
25th Percentile £594 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile - £756 £638
90th Percentile £775 £875 £676
UK median daily rate £675 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% +6.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Manager in England

IT Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Security Manager in England

IT Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Security Manager in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Manager in England

IT Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Manager in England

IT 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 IT Security Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 +82 18 £675 +17.39% 4
South West +19 5 £525 +16.67%
South East +23 3 £645 -25.22% 2
Midlands +30 2 £606 +21.25% 3
West Midlands +20 2 £606 +21.25% 3
IT Security Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, IT 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 IT Security Manager in the job title.

1 18 (62.07%) Finance
1 18 (62.07%) Project Management
2 10 (34.48%) Static Application Security Testing
2 10 (34.48%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 8 (27.59%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (17.24%) NIST
6 5 (17.24%) Business Case
6 5 (17.24%) Banking
6 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
6 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.24%) Information Security
7 4 (13.79%) PMI Certification
7 4 (13.79%) PRINCE2
7 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
7 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (13.79%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
8 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.34%) Coaching
8 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
8 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
8 3 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (10.34%) PMP
8 3 (10.34%) Security Architecture
8 3 (10.34%) Publishing

IT 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 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 18 (62.07%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Publishing
5 2 (6.90%) Law
5 2 (6.90%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) PMI
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Project Management
2 10 (34.48%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 10 (34.48%) Static Application Security Testing
3 8 (27.59%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (17.24%) Business Case
6 5 (17.24%) Information Security
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.79%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.79%) PRINCE2
8 3 (10.34%) Coaching
8 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
8 3 (10.34%) Security Architecture
8 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
9 2 (6.90%) SIEM
9 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) PMI Certification
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) PMP
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) CISM
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (17.24%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) COBIT
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.45%) Rapid7