Security Manager Contracts in the Midlands

Security Manager
England > Midlands

The median Security Manager daily rate in the Midlands is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 147 168
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 16 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.58% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.49% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 28
10th Percentile £528 - £480
25th Percentile £563 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £649 £597 £662
90th Percentile £725 £746 £754
England median daily rate £649 £618 £550
% change year-on-year +5.10% +12.27% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,522 3,270 4,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.54% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 2,299 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £224 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +3.66% +14.56%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 130 179
10th Percentile £11.84 £11.98 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.13 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.38 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.80 £60.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the Midlands

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the Midlands

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the Midlands

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the Midlands

Security Manager
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 Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
West Midlands +30 13 £606 +10.23% 9
East Midlands +14 1 £600 +20.00% 1
Security Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Midlands region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (50.00%) Project Management
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (43.75%) Finance
4 5 (31.25%) Privileged Access Management
5 4 (25.00%) Information Security
5 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Law
6 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
6 3 (18.75%) Java
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (18.75%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (18.75%) CCTV
7 2 (12.50%) Project Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) SIEM
7 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
7 2 (12.50%) Change Control
7 2 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 2 (12.50%) Windows
7 2 (12.50%) Linux
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project

Security Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) tcpdump
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Wireless
2 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
2 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
1 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Law
3 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) EDI
1 1 (6.25%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) CCTV
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (50.00%) Project Management
3 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Privileged Access Management
5 4 (25.00%) Information Security
5 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 2 (12.50%) Change Control
7 2 (12.50%) Coaching
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (12.50%) Project Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) SIEM
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Snort
1 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) PaperCut
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Aruba
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Sage
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Veeam
2 1 (6.25%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) WatchGuard