Security Manager Contracts in England

Security Manager
UK > England

The median Security Manager daily rate in England is £575, 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 388 365 353
Rank change year-on-year -23 -12 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 97 179 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.48% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.52% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 142 251
10th Percentile £425 £463 £500
25th Percentile £478 £550 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £645 £618
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +4.45% +11.26%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £713
90th Percentile £688 £775 £820
UK median daily rate £563 £645 £618
% change year-on-year -12.79% +4.45% +12.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £30.70 £62.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.80 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -50.31% -20.50%
75th Percentile - £32.90 £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £31.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +10.06% -50.31% -20.50%

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 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%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in England

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 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 -13 53 £600 -7.69% 80
South East +50 19 £575 -10.85% 42
South West +31 8 £613 +16.67% 11
North of England +16 8 £550 - 43
Midlands +10 5 £550 -9.28% 11
Yorkshire +7 5 £550 +10.00% 17
West Midlands +5 5 £550 -10.20% 6
North West +15 3 - - 19
East of England +26 1 £519 -5.64% 13
Security Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Security Manager in the job title.

1 53 (54.64%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (36.08%) Social Skills
3 30 (30.93%) Finance
4 29 (29.90%) Information Security
5 23 (23.71%) CISSP
6 22 (22.68%) Risk Management
6 22 (22.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (21.65%) NIST
8 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (19.59%) Agile
9 18 (18.56%) Vulnerability Management
10 17 (17.53%) Azure
10 17 (17.53%) CISM
10 17 (17.53%) Project Management
11 15 (15.46%) Security Cleared
12 14 (14.43%) Degree
13 13 (13.40%) SIEM
13 13 (13.40%) Security Operations
14 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
15 10 (10.31%) Penetration Testing
15 10 (10.31%) Security Management
15 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
15 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
16 9 (9.28%) Data Protection
16 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 9 (9.28%) Privileged Access Management
16 9 (9.28%) Incident Response
17 8 (8.25%) Security Posture
17 8 (8.25%) Cloud Security

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 2 (2.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.53%) Azure
2 4 (4.12%) AWS
3 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.09%) SonarCloud
4 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.03%) Akamai
5 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.03%) GCP
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.03%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.03%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.03%) SaaS
5 1 (1.03%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) Network Security
2 6 (6.19%) Firewall
3 4 (4.12%) VPN
4 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.06%) Wireless
5 1 (1.03%) 5G
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.03%) Internet
5 1 (1.03%) NAS
5 1 (1.03%) SAN
5 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.06%) Power BI
2 1 (1.03%) Big Data
2 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
1 3 (3.09%) Snyk
General
1 35 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 30 (30.93%) Finance
3 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Banking
4 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Law
6 4 (4.12%) Legal
6 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) French Language
8 2 (2.06%) Local Government
8 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Automotive
9 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.03%) Military
9 1 (1.03%) Police
9 1 (1.03%) Polish Language
9 1 (1.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.25%) Security Posture
3 6 (6.19%) Operational Technology
4 4 (4.12%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.09%) CCTV
5 3 (3.09%) PMI
5 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.03%) CSOC
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
6 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (29.90%) Information Security
3 22 (22.68%) Risk Management
4 19 (19.59%) Agile
4 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (18.56%) Vulnerability Management
6 17 (17.53%) Project Management
7 13 (13.40%) Security Operations
7 13 (13.40%) SIEM
8 10 (10.31%) Penetration Testing
8 10 (10.31%) Security Management
9 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.28%) Data Protection
9 9 (9.28%) Incident Response
9 9 (9.28%) Privileged Access Management
9 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (8.25%) Cloud Security
10 8 (8.25%) Data Loss Prevention
10 8 (8.25%) Project Delivery
10 8 (8.25%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.06%) SQL
2 1 (1.03%) C++
2 1 (1.03%) Java
2 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
2 1 (1.03%) Python
2 1 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (23.71%) CISSP
2 17 (17.53%) CISM
3 15 (15.46%) Security Cleared
4 14 (14.43%) Degree
5 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
6 7 (7.22%) CISA
6 7 (7.22%) CRISC
6 7 (7.22%) PMI Certification
7 5 (5.15%) PMP
8 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (3.09%) CCSP
9 3 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.09%) GCIH
10 2 (2.06%) CEH
10 2 (2.06%) CISMP
10 2 (2.06%) ISACA
10 2 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (1.03%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (21.65%) NIST
3 7 (7.22%) GDPR
4 4 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (4.12%) SLA
5 3 (3.09%) GRC
5 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (2.06%) EU AI Act
6 2 (2.06%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.06%) NCSC
6 2 (2.06%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.03%) COBIT
7 1 (1.03%) ISO 14001
7 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) KVM
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.03%) CASB
2 1 (1.03%) Nessus
2 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.06%) AlgoSec
2 2 (2.06%) Meraki
2 2 (2.06%) Qualys
3 1 (1.03%) Alibaba
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco
3 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.03%) Dell KACE
3 1 (1.03%) LogRhythm
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle
3 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.03%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.03%) Remedy
3 1 (1.03%) SAP
3 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.03%) Sophos
3 1 (1.03%) Splunk
3 1 (1.03%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (1.03%) Workday