Security Management Contracts in the Midlands

Security Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 128 140
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 +55
Contract jobs citing Security Management 13 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.18% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.22% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 15
10th Percentile £463 £314 £500
25th Percentile £500 £409 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £552 £588 -
90th Percentile £663 - -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £594
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% +7.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in the Midlands

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Management in the Midlands

Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Management in the Midlands

Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Management in the Midlands

Security Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +23 13 £523 -9.09% 13
Security Management
England

Security Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) Internet
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) General Ledger
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Advisor
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Operational Technology
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) CCTV
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Information Security
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Business Process Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) ISMS
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Quantitative Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) CISA
2 3 (23.08%) CISSP
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) CEH
3 2 (15.38%) CISM
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (7.69%) RHCE
4 1 (7.69%) RHCSA
4 1 (7.69%) SANS
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (23.08%) NIST
3 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (7.69%) GRC
4 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
1 1 (7.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Bloomberg
1 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Juniper
2 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) VMware