Security Manager Contracts in London

Security Manager
England > London

The median Security Manager daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 289 412
Rank change year-on-year +5 +123 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 104 227 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.85% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.89% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 174 138
10th Percentile £440 £518 £456
25th Percentile £600 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £684
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
England median daily rate £645 £620 £575
% change year-on-year +4.03% +7.83% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
% change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in London

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in London

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in London

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in London

Security 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 Security Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +24 14 £650 -2.55% 7
East London +1 13 £650 -1.89% 2
Security Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 49 (47.12%) Project Management
1 49 (47.12%) Finance
2 48 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (29.81%) Information Security
4 26 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 26 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 26 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 22 (21.15%) CISSP
6 19 (18.27%) CISM
7 18 (17.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (16.35%) Management Information System
8 17 (16.35%) Social Skills
9 16 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
9 16 (15.38%) PRINCE2
10 15 (14.42%) Security Operations
11 14 (13.46%) CISA
11 14 (13.46%) Agile
11 14 (13.46%) Security Cleared
11 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
12 13 (12.50%) Financial Institution
12 13 (12.50%) PMI Certification
12 13 (12.50%) Cloud Security
13 12 (11.54%) NIST
13 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (11.54%) Programme Management
14 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
15 10 (9.62%) PMP
15 10 (9.62%) Banking
15 10 (9.62%) Enterprise Architecture
15 10 (9.62%) Security Testing

Security 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 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.77%) Azure
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.88%) AWS
3 3 (2.88%) Mimecast
3 3 (2.88%) SaaS
4 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.92%) IaaS
4 2 (1.92%) PaaS
5 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Firewall
1 4 (3.85%) SNA
2 2 (1.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.96%) LAN
3 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.96%) VoIP
3 1 (0.96%) WAN
3 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 49 (47.12%) Finance
2 17 (16.35%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 10 (9.62%) Banking
5 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.69%) Legal
7 6 (5.77%) Law
7 6 (5.77%) Military
8 5 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.88%) Marketing
11 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.96%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (4.81%) PMI
3 4 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.88%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.96%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.96%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
1 3 (2.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.12%) Project Management
2 48 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (29.81%) Information Security
4 26 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 26 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 26 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 16 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 16 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
6 15 (14.42%) Security Operations
7 14 (13.46%) Agile
8 13 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.54%) Programme Management
10 10 (9.62%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (9.62%) Incident Response
10 10 (9.62%) Security Testing
11 9 (8.65%) Business Case
11 9 (8.65%) Risk Management
12 7 (6.73%) Decision-Making
12 7 (6.73%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) CISSP
2 19 (18.27%) CISM
3 14 (13.46%) CISA
3 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.46%) Security Cleared
4 13 (12.50%) PMI Certification
5 10 (9.62%) PMP
6 7 (6.73%) Degree
7 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.92%) CCIE
8 2 (1.92%) CCIE Security
8 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.96%) CCIE Service Provider
9 1 (0.96%) CCSK
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.96%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (11.54%) NIST
3 6 (5.77%) GDPR
4 4 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.88%) GRC
6 2 (1.92%) QA
7 1 (0.96%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.96%) SLA
7 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) CASB
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.92%) Darktrace
2 2 (1.92%) SAP
3 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.96%) Cisco
3 1 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
3 1 (0.96%) Meraki
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle
3 1 (0.96%) Palo Alto
3 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
3 1 (0.96%) Sophos
3 1 (0.96%) Tufin
3 1 (0.96%) VMware
3 1 (0.96%) Zscaler