Cybersecurity Manager Contracts

Cybersecurity Manager
UK

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 555 699
Rank change year-on-year +32 +144 -97
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 77 161 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.29% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 121 116
10th Percentile £463 £500 £419
25th Percentile £513 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £625
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £514
% change year-on-year - +11.98% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% - -
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +47 63 £625 +0.81% 31
UK excluding London +50 34 £575 - 19
London +57 32 £650 - 16
Work from Home +101 30 £538 -17.31% 14
Midlands +32 9 £613 +11.36% 2
West Midlands +25 8 £625 +13.64% 1
South West +16 6 £525 -26.14% 2
Scotland +43 5 £575 -11.54% 2
South East +22 5 £575 +10.31% 7
East of England +13 5 £550 -8.33% 1
North of England +29 4 £500 -13.04% 4
Yorkshire +19 3 £500 -4.76% 1
North West +25 1 £475 -17.39% 3
East Midlands - 1 £600 - 1

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (42.86%) Project Management
3 24 (31.17%) Finance
4 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 21 (27.27%) Project Delivery
6 14 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
7 13 (16.88%) CISSP
7 13 (16.88%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (15.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (15.58%) Risk Management
8 12 (15.58%) Static Application Security Testing
8 12 (15.58%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 11 (14.29%) PRINCE2
9 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 11 (14.29%) Azure
10 10 (12.99%) CISM
10 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (12.99%) Financial Institution
10 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
10 10 (12.99%) NIST
11 9 (11.69%) Incident Response
11 9 (11.69%) Cloud Security
11 9 (11.69%) CISA
11 9 (11.69%) PMI Certification
11 9 (11.69%) Network Security
12 8 (10.39%) SIEM
12 8 (10.39%) Business Case
12 8 (10.39%) Security Operations
13 7 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (9.09%) Identity Access Management

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (3.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (6.49%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (5.19%) AWS
3 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.90%) Akamai
4 3 (3.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (3.90%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.60%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Network Security
2 5 (6.49%) Firewall
3 2 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.60%) LAN
3 2 (2.60%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.30%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 24 (31.17%) Finance
2 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.49%) Banking
4 5 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.90%) Automotive
6 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) International Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Law
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.90%) PMI
5 2 (2.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.30%) Life Science
6 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (42.86%) Project Management
3 21 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 14 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
5 13 (16.88%) Vulnerability Management
6 12 (15.58%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 12 (15.58%) Risk Management
6 12 (15.58%) Static Application Security Testing
7 11 (14.29%) PRINCE2
8 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (11.69%) Cloud Security
9 9 (11.69%) Incident Response
10 8 (10.39%) Business Case
10 8 (10.39%) Security Operations
10 8 (10.39%) SIEM
11 7 (9.09%) Agile
11 7 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (9.09%) Migration
12 6 (7.79%) Cyber Resilience
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.90%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) CISSP
2 10 (12.99%) CISM
3 9 (11.69%) CISA
3 9 (11.69%) PMI Certification
4 7 (9.09%) PMP
5 6 (7.79%) Degree
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.60%) FFIEC
7 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.30%) CCSK
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) GCIA
8 1 (1.30%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (12.99%) NIST
3 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.90%) QA
5 2 (2.60%) NCSC
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.30%) GDPR
6 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.90%) F5
4 2 (2.60%) Cisco
4 2 (2.60%) Darktrace
4 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.60%) Splunk
5 1 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.30%) Google
5 1 (1.30%) Tufin
5 1 (1.30%) VMware
5 1 (1.30%) Zscaler