Security Management Contracts in England

Security Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 431 476
Rank change year-on-year +75 +45 +51
Contract jobs citing Security Management 129 111 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 83 134
10th Percentile £338 £370 £408
25th Percentile £500 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £594
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £725
90th Percentile £688 £835 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £66.25 £80.34 £36.40
25th Percentile £68.13 £80.85 £38.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £81.71 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +94.54% +52.73%
75th Percentile £85.63 £82.56 £47.88
90th Percentile £89.75 £83.07 £51.40
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £81.71 £42.00
% change year-on-year -8.21% +94.54% +52.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in England

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Management in England

Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Management in England

Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Management in England

Security Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Management in England

Security Management
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 Security Management 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 +27 41 £563 -13.46% 72
North of England +39 32 £550 -4.35% 27
Yorkshire +26 21 £550 -4.35% 6
South West +49 18 £600 -12.73% 23
South East +38 15 £550 +11.11% 42
Midlands +30 13 £523 -0.43% 25
West Midlands +23 13 £523 -9.09% 13
North West +16 6 £675 +17.39% 17
North East +3 5 - - 4
East of England +32 4 - - 15
Security Management
UK

Security Management
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 16 (12.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.48%) Azure
2 14 (10.85%) AWS
3 9 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.20%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.10%) Serverless
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.55%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.55%) GCP
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.83%) DNS
2 22 (17.05%) Firewall
3 14 (10.85%) Network Security
4 7 (5.43%) VPN
5 6 (4.65%) DHCP
6 5 (3.88%) SSL
6 5 (3.88%) WAN
7 4 (3.10%) Internet
7 4 (3.10%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.10%) Wireless
8 3 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (2.33%) LAN
8 3 (2.33%) MPLS
8 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.78%) MQTT
9 1 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.18%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.78%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
General
1 37 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.28%) Finance
3 17 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Banking
5 7 (5.43%) Legal
6 6 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.33%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.33%) Law
8 3 (2.33%) Military
8 3 (2.33%) Police
8 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.78%) Electronics
10 1 (0.78%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (17.83%) Security Engineer
2 20 (15.50%) Architect
3 18 (13.95%) Consultant
4 17 (13.18%) Security Architect
5 15 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (11.63%) Security Consultant
6 13 (10.08%) Network Engineer
6 13 (10.08%) Senior
7 10 (7.75%) Security Manager
8 9 (6.98%) DevSecOps Architect
8 9 (6.98%) IT Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Administrator
9 8 (6.20%) Engineering Specialist
9 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 7 (5.43%) Analyst
10 7 (5.43%) DevSecOps Consultant
10 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Lead
11 6 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) LDAP
1 5 (3.88%) OAuth
1 5 (3.88%) SAML
2 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.78%) ISPF
2 1 (0.78%) ODBC
2 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.16%) Management Information System
2 17 (13.18%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (10.08%) Security Posture
4 12 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (7.75%) Operational Technology
6 8 (6.20%) Private Cloud
7 6 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.65%) Mainframe
8 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
9 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.55%) CCTV
11 2 (1.55%) CMDB
11 2 (1.55%) IBM Mainframe
11 2 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.55%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.93%) Windows
2 25 (19.38%) Linux
3 20 (15.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.65%) zOS
5 4 (3.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.01%) Information Security
2 39 (30.23%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (25.58%) Agile
5 27 (20.93%) Information Security Management
6 23 (17.83%) Risk Management
7 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (15.50%) ITIL
8 20 (15.50%) Microservices
9 17 (13.18%) Roadmaps
10 16 (12.40%) Change Management
10 16 (12.40%) Incident Response
10 16 (12.40%) SOA
11 15 (11.63%) ISMS
12 14 (10.85%) DevOps
13 13 (10.08%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (10.08%) Security Operations
13 13 (10.08%) Server Management
13 13 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (9.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.60%) PowerShell
2 21 (16.28%) Bash
3 19 (14.73%) SQL
4 16 (12.40%) PL/SQL
5 15 (11.63%) Perl
6 6 (4.65%) Python
7 1 (0.78%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.78%) Bicep
7 1 (0.78%) CLIST
7 1 (0.78%) Java
7 1 (0.78%) JCL
7 1 (0.78%) REXX
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.81%) CISSP
3 29 (22.48%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (20.93%) SC Cleared
5 21 (16.28%) CISM
6 14 (10.85%) Degree
7 12 (9.30%) CISA
8 10 (7.75%) CEH
9 8 (6.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (6.20%) CCSP
10 7 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (5.43%) OSCP
11 5 (3.88%) DV Cleared
11 5 (3.88%) IBM Certification
12 4 (3.10%) AWS Certification
12 4 (3.10%) CCNP
12 4 (3.10%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (2.33%) ISACA
14 2 (1.55%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (27.91%) NIST
2 29 (22.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (8.53%) GDPR
4 10 (7.75%) COBIT
4 10 (7.75%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.43%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.88%) HIPAA
6 5 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (3.88%) SOC 2
7 4 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (3.10%) GRC
7 4 (3.10%) NCSC
8 3 (2.33%) SLA
9 2 (1.55%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.78%) RMADS
10 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.88%) RACF
2 5 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.78%) Docker
4 1 (0.78%) Firmware
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.78%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.78%) XenApp
4 1 (0.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.30%) SCCM
2 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.10%) Terraform
4 4 (3.10%) WSUS
5 3 (2.33%) CASB
5 3 (2.33%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.55%) Nagios
6 2 (1.55%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.78%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.78%) OPNET
7 1 (0.78%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (22.48%) Cisco
2 27 (20.93%) Microsoft
3 20 (15.50%) Oracle
4 10 (7.75%) Fortinet
5 7 (5.43%) IBM
5 7 (5.43%) VMware
6 6 (4.65%) Aruba
6 6 (4.65%) HP
7 5 (3.88%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.88%) Qualys
7 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.88%) Veeam
8 4 (3.10%) F5
8 4 (3.10%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.33%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.33%) Extreme Networks
9 3 (2.33%) Infoblox
9 3 (2.33%) Rapid7
9 3 (2.33%) Ruckus Wireless
9 3 (2.33%) Sophos