Security Management Contracts in the North of England

Security Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 159 191
Rank change year-on-year -9 +32 +45
Contract jobs citing Security Management 21 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.53% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 6
10th Percentile £326 £418 £413
25th Percentile £453 £481 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £497
90th Percentile £688 £556 £544
England median daily rate £550 £625 £611
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.25% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £88.75 £65.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +36.54% +34.02% +76.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,553 3,466 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.07% 83.96% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,261 2,082 3,111
10th Percentile £268 £311 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £586 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 244 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.65 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% -8.33% +39.90%
75th Percentile £44.09 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.75 £69.93 £60.89
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in the North of England

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Management in the North of England

Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Management in the North of England

Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Management in the North of England

Security Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Yorkshire -10 12 £550 +15.79% 6
North West -4 7 £475 -7.32% 14
North East - 2 - - 2
Security Management
England

Security Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (47.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) LAN
2 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
2 2 (9.52%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) MPLS
3 1 (4.76%) Skype
3 1 (4.76%) SSL
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Network Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Engineering Specialist
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Information Assurance Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IP Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Information Assurance Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 10 (47.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Microservices
2 10 (47.62%) SOA
3 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (38.10%) Server Management
5 4 (19.05%) Information Security
5 4 (19.05%) Information Security Management
5 4 (19.05%) ISMS
6 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 2 (9.52%) Change Management
7 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
7 2 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (9.52%) Information Assurance
7 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (9.52%) Technology Roadmap
7 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) Bash
2 11 (52.38%) PowerShell
3 10 (47.62%) PL/SQL
4 8 (38.10%) Perl
5 2 (9.52%) Python
6 1 (4.76%) Korn
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CISM
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (9.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) NIST
3 2 (9.52%) COBIT
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Cisco
2 10 (47.62%) Oracle
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) HP
5 2 (9.52%) Veeam
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds