Security Manager Contracts in London

Security Manager
England > London

The median Security Manager daily rate in London is £600, 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 300 287 283
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +118
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 53 104 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.58% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.63% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 82 171
10th Percentile £432 £440 £513
25th Percentile £479 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £661 £697 £716
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
England median daily rate £575 £645 £618
% change year-on-year -10.85% +4.45% +11.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £64.00
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £31.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +10.06% -50.31% -20.50%

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +5 13 £633 +1.20% 13
North London - 1 £463 -
Security Manager
England

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

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 London region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 29 (54.72%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (37.74%) Information Security
2 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
3 19 (35.85%) Finance
4 14 (26.42%) Risk Management
4 14 (26.42%) Agile
5 13 (24.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (24.53%) CISSP
5 13 (24.53%) NIST
6 11 (20.75%) Azure
6 11 (20.75%) SIEM
6 11 (20.75%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
7 9 (16.98%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (16.98%) CISM
7 9 (16.98%) Security Operations
8 8 (15.09%) Project Management
8 8 (15.09%) Incident Response
9 7 (13.21%) Cloud Security
9 7 (13.21%) DevSecOps
9 7 (13.21%) Privileged Access Management
10 6 (11.32%) Data Loss Prevention
10 6 (11.32%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
10 6 (11.32%) Degree
10 6 (11.32%) Network Security
10 6 (11.32%) Security Posture
11 5 (9.43%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 5 (9.43%) Decision-Making

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 2 (3.77%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) AWS
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.89%) Akamai
4 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.89%) GCP
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.89%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.89%) SaaS
4 1 (1.89%) SAP Fieldglass
4 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) Network Security
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 2 (3.77%) Wireless
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.89%) NAS
4 1 (1.89%) SAN
4 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.89%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Big Data
1 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.85%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Law
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.77%) French Language
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Police
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.89%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Security Posture
2 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) CSOC
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (37.74%) Information Security
3 14 (26.42%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) Risk Management
4 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (20.75%) SIEM
5 11 (20.75%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (16.98%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (16.98%) Security Operations
7 8 (15.09%) Incident Response
7 8 (15.09%) Project Management
8 7 (13.21%) Cloud Security
8 7 (13.21%) DevSecOps
8 7 (13.21%) Privileged Access Management
9 6 (11.32%) Data Loss Prevention
9 6 (11.32%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (9.43%) Decision-Making
10 5 (9.43%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 5 (9.43%) Waterfall
11 4 (7.55%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.77%) SQL
2 1 (1.89%) C++
2 1 (1.89%) Java
2 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
2 1 (1.89%) Python
2 1 (1.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) CISSP
2 9 (16.98%) CISM
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.55%) CRISC
6 3 (5.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (5.66%) CCSP
6 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.66%) GCIH
7 2 (3.77%) CEH
7 2 (3.77%) CISA
7 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) PMP
7 2 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.89%) CASP
8 1 (1.89%) GCIA
8 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (24.53%) NIST
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
2 4 (7.55%) SLA
3 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.77%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.89%) COBIT
5 1 (1.89%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.89%) GRC
5 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.89%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.89%) NCSC
5 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.89%) QA
5 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) KVM
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) CASB
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) Meraki
3 1 (1.89%) Alibaba
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco
3 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.89%) Dell KACE
3 1 (1.89%) LogRhythm
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle
3 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.89%) Qualys
3 1 (1.89%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.89%) Remedy
3 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.89%) Sophos
3 1 (1.89%) Splunk
3 1 (1.89%) Tenable
3 1 (1.89%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (1.89%) Workday