Cybersecurity Manager Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Manager
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 372 393
Rank change year-on-year +30 +21 +120
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 8 32 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.18% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 58
10th Percentile £424 £555 £510
25th Percentile £430 £613 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% - +8.79%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £688
90th Percentile £590 £767 £741
England median daily rate £540 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -13.60% +0.81% +11.71%
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 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) NIST
3 4 (50.00%) Information Security
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (25.00%) SIEM
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Firewall
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Internal Audit
6 1 (12.50%) IT Audit
6 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (12.50%) GDPR
6 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
6 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management

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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Internal Audit
4 1 (12.50%) IT Audit
4 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CASB
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys
2 1 (12.50%) Sophos