Cybersecurity Manager Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Manager
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in London is £515, 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 341 360 407
Rank change year-on-year +19 +47 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 12 31 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.17% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 63
10th Percentile £442 £540 £501
25th Percentile £453 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £674 £688
90th Percentile £600 £801 £775
England median daily rate £550 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.46% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate - - £64.00
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.44 £31.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% -50.31% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in London

Cybersecurity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Manager in London

Cybersecurity Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in London

Cybersecurity Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager within the London 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
North London - 1 £463 -
Cybersecurity Manager
England

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cybersecurity 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 5 (41.67%) Project Management
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) NIST
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Dependency Management
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Change Control
5 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
7 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Internal Audit
7 1 (8.33%) IT Audit
7 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) GDPR
7 1 (8.33%) CASB

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Change Control
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) Dependency Management
4 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (25.00%) Information Security
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
6 1 (8.33%) BCP
6 1 (8.33%) Benchmarking
6 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) CASB
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (8.33%) Meraki
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Qualys
1 1 (8.33%) Sophos