Security Management Contracts in London

Security Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 312 339 414
Rank change year-on-year +27 +75 +49
Contract jobs citing Security Management 41 52 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 44 69
10th Percentile £371 £430 £420
25th Percentile £423 £545 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £613 £739 £740
90th Percentile £656 £970 £750
England median daily rate £550 £625 £594
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 £81.71 £42.00
% change year-on-year -8.21% +94.54% +52.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in London

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Management in London

Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Management in London

Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Management in London

Security Management
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 Security Management 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
Central London +6 11 £575 +2.22% 9
Security Management
England

Security Management
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 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.76%) Serverless
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.44%) dbt
8 1 (2.44%) OCI
8 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (34.15%) Firewall
2 5 (12.20%) DHCP
2 5 (12.20%) DNS
2 5 (12.20%) VPN
3 4 (9.76%) Network Security
3 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.76%) WAN
4 3 (7.32%) SSL
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (4.88%) LAN
5 2 (4.88%) MPLS
5 2 (4.88%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.88%) Wireless
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
General
1 9 (21.95%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Legal
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.44%) Police
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Security Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Network Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Architect
3 5 (12.20%) IT Security Officer
3 5 (12.20%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Security Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Security Officer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Consultant
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Security Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Information Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) LDAP
1 5 (12.20%) OAuth
1 5 (12.20%) SAML
2 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.44%) ISPF
2 1 (2.44%) ODBC
2 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Security Posture
2 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
3 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.32%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.88%) CMDB
5 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.88%) Reinsurance
6 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.44%) Insider Threat
6 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Tandem
6 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.88%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Information Security
2 14 (34.15%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (29.27%) ITIL
4 10 (24.39%) Cloud Security
4 10 (24.39%) Information Security Management
4 10 (24.39%) Risk Management
5 9 (21.95%) Agile
6 8 (19.51%) Change Management
6 8 (19.51%) RBAC
7 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.07%) Security Operations
7 7 (17.07%) SIEM
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (14.63%) Incident Response
8 6 (14.63%) Project Management
8 6 (14.63%) Security Architecture
8 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 5 (12.20%) Risk Assessment
9 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.20%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) Bash
4 2 (4.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.44%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.44%) Bicep
5 1 (2.44%) CLIST
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) JCL
5 1 (2.44%) REXX
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) CISSP
2 7 (17.07%) Degree
3 5 (12.20%) CISM
3 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) CISA
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.32%) CCNP
5 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (7.32%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.88%) ISSEP
6 2 (4.88%) PMP
7 1 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.44%) CCSP
7 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) NIST
2 11 (26.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (12.20%) GDPR
3 5 (12.20%) SOC 2
4 4 (9.76%) HIPAA
5 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (7.32%) NIST 800
6 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.44%) FISMA
7 1 (2.44%) GRC
7 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.44%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) XenApp
3 1 (2.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) SCCM
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (12.20%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (9.76%) Terraform
4 4 (9.76%) WSUS
5 3 (7.32%) CASB
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (4.88%) Nagios
6 2 (4.88%) SCOrch
7 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.44%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Qualys
3 4 (9.76%) Aruba
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
4 3 (7.32%) Rapid7
4 3 (7.32%) Sophos
4 3 (7.32%) Tenable
5 2 (4.88%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.88%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (4.88%) F5
5 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.88%) IBM
5 2 (4.88%) Infoblox
5 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.88%) Ruckus Wireless
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.88%) Snow
5 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.44%) Tufin