Cybersecurity Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 361 411
Rank change year-on-year +36 +50 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 23 34 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 33
10th Percentile £488 £485 £502
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +10.58%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £675
90th Percentile £693 £673 £718
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.31 £30.70 -
Median hourly rate £47.44 £31.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% - -
75th Percentile £48.57 £32.90 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.44 £31.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% -50.31% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,941 18,763 21,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 92.47% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,600 11,440 15,152
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 2,259 1,107
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £36.58 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.03% -18.72% +87.50%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +45 5 £525 -8.70% 11
North of England +20 5 £550 +10.00% 5
Scotland +8 5 £550 -4.35% 6
Yorkshire +15 4 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands +13 4 £500 -18.37%
West Midlands +3 4 £500 -20.00%
South West +39 2 £700 +33.33% 4
East of England +24 2 £700 +27.27%
North West +17 1 £575 +21.05% 1
Cybersecurity Manager
UK

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Cybersecurity 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (56.52%) Project Management
3 8 (34.78%) Management Information System
3 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) PMI Certification
4 7 (30.43%) PRINCE2
4 7 (30.43%) Project Planning
4 7 (30.43%) Degree
4 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (30.43%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
5 6 (26.09%) Contingency Planning
5 6 (26.09%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (26.09%) Information Security
5 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (26.09%) PRINCE
5 6 (26.09%) PMI
6 5 (21.74%) Security Management
6 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
6 5 (21.74%) CISSP
6 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
7 4 (17.39%) Operational Technology
7 4 (17.39%) Matrix Organization
8 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
8 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.04%) Scrum
8 3 (13.04%) Firewall
8 3 (13.04%) CISM
8 3 (13.04%) Change Management

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
3 1 (4.35%) Internet
3 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Management Information System
2 6 (26.09%) PMI
3 4 (17.39%) Operational Technology
4 2 (8.70%) CCTV
4 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (4.35%) CMDB
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.35%) PropTech
5 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (56.52%) Project Management
3 7 (30.43%) PRINCE2
3 7 (30.43%) Project Planning
3 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
3 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (26.09%) Contingency Planning
4 6 (26.09%) Information Security
4 6 (26.09%) PRINCE
4 6 (26.09%) Regulatory Compliance
5 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
5 5 (21.74%) Security Management
6 4 (17.39%) Matrix Organization
7 3 (13.04%) Agile
7 3 (13.04%) Change Management
7 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.70%) Business Continuity
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) PMI Certification
2 7 (30.43%) Degree
3 5 (21.74%) CISSP
4 3 (13.04%) CISM
5 2 (8.70%) PMP
5 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.35%) CISA
6 1 (4.35%) CRISC
6 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft