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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 438 471
Rank change year-on-year +94 +33 +42
Contract jobs citing Security Management 123 104 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 137
10th Percentile £338 £400 £453
25th Percentile £475 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £645 £738 £740
90th Percentile £701 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £66.25 £66.00 £35.70
25th Percentile £68.13 £71.25 £36.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +107.79% +40.00%
75th Percentile £85.63 £81.71 £40.25
90th Percentile £89.75 £82.73 £41.30
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +107.79% +40.00%

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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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
North of England +42 31 £550 +27.61% 143
London +18 31 £500 -20.00% 135
South East +48 20 £600 +21.21% 163
Yorkshire +28 20 £550 - 46
South West +35 17 £600 -12.73% 74
West Midlands +22 12 £521 +9.58% 47
Midlands +21 12 £521 +9.58% 90
East of England +30 6 £362 - 79
North West +13 6 £588 -4.47% 77
North East +7 5 - - 20
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 (13.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.44%) Confluence
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) CMS
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
4 1 (0.81%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.63%) Azure
2 11 (8.94%) AWS
3 8 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.25%) Serverless
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.63%) GCP
6 2 (1.63%) OCI
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.81%) dbt
7 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.89%) DNS
2 21 (17.07%) Firewall
3 15 (12.20%) Network Security
4 6 (4.88%) VPN
5 5 (4.07%) DHCP
5 5 (4.07%) SSL
5 5 (4.07%) WAN
6 4 (3.25%) Internet
6 4 (3.25%) Wireless
7 3 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.44%) LAN
7 3 (2.44%) MPLS
7 3 (2.44%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.81%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.82%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
General
1 40 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.63%) Finance
3 15 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.69%) Legal
4 7 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.88%) Banking
5 6 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Law
7 3 (2.44%) Military
7 3 (2.44%) Police
7 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Electronics
9 1 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (17.89%) Security Engineer
2 15 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (11.38%) Consultant
4 13 (10.57%) Architect
4 13 (10.57%) Network Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) Security Architect
5 11 (8.94%) Security Consultant
6 10 (8.13%) Security Manager
7 8 (6.50%) Engineering Specialist
7 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 8 (6.50%) IT Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) Analyst
8 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Administrator
9 6 (4.88%) Network Security Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Senior
10 5 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 5 (4.07%) DevSecOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.81%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.33%) Management Information System
2 17 (13.82%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (10.57%) Security Posture
4 9 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (7.32%) Operational Technology
5 6 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.88%) Mainframe
6 5 (4.07%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.07%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.63%) CCTV
9 2 (1.63%) CMDB
9 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.63%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (1.63%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Windows
2 25 (20.33%) Linux
3 20 (16.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.88%) zOS
5 4 (3.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.96%) Information Security
2 36 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (28.46%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (23.58%) Agile
4 29 (23.58%) Information Security Management
5 21 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (17.07%) Risk Management
6 19 (15.45%) Microservices
7 18 (14.63%) Incident Response
7 18 (14.63%) Roadmaps
8 17 (13.82%) ISMS
9 16 (13.01%) SOA
10 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (11.38%) Change Management
11 14 (11.38%) ITIL
11 14 (11.38%) Security Operations
12 13 (10.57%) Server Management
13 11 (8.94%) Cloud Security
13 11 (8.94%) Incident Management
13 11 (8.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.89%) SQL
2 21 (17.07%) Bash
3 19 (15.45%) PowerShell
4 16 (13.01%) PL/SQL
5 15 (12.20%) Perl
6 5 (4.07%) Python
7 1 (0.81%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.81%) Bicep
7 1 (0.81%) CLIST
7 1 (0.81%) JCL
7 1 (0.81%) REXX
7 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 27 (21.95%) CISSP
4 25 (20.33%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (13.82%) CISM
6 12 (9.76%) Degree
7 9 (7.32%) CISA
8 7 (5.69%) CEH
9 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
10 5 (4.07%) IBM Certification
10 5 (4.07%) OSCP
11 4 (3.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (3.25%) CCNP
11 4 (3.25%) CCSP
11 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
12 3 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (1.63%) CRISC
13 2 (1.63%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (28.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (27.64%) NIST
3 12 (9.76%) GDPR
4 11 (8.94%) COBIT
5 8 (6.50%) PCI DSS
6 7 (5.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (4.07%) GRC
7 5 (4.07%) HIPAA
7 5 (4.07%) NCSC
7 5 (4.07%) SOC 2
8 4 (3.25%) NIST 800
9 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.63%) ISO 9001
10 2 (1.63%) JSP 440
10 2 (1.63%) SLA
11 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.81%) RMADS
11 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (18.70%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.07%) RACF
3 4 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.81%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.81%) Docker
5 1 (0.81%) Firmware
5 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.81%) XenApp
5 1 (0.81%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (7.32%) SCCM
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.25%) Terraform
4 3 (2.44%) CASB
4 3 (2.44%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (2.44%) WSUS
5 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.63%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.81%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.81%) OPNET
6 1 (0.81%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (22.76%) Cisco
2 23 (18.70%) Oracle
3 20 (16.26%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.13%) Fortinet
5 7 (5.69%) VMware
6 6 (4.88%) Aruba
6 6 (4.88%) IBM
7 5 (4.07%) HP
7 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.07%) Veeam
8 4 (3.25%) F5
8 4 (3.25%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.44%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.44%) Extreme Networks
9 3 (2.44%) Infoblox
9 3 (2.44%) Qualys
9 3 (2.44%) Ruckus Wireless
9 3 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.44%) Tenable
9 3 (2.44%) Zscaler