Security Management Contracts

Security Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 458 488
Rank change year-on-year +78 +30 +55
Contract jobs citing Security Management 140 142 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 101 164
10th Percentile £364 £350 £461
25th Percentile £494 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £702
90th Percentile £692 £808 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £66.25 £80.34 £36.40
25th Percentile £68.13 £80.85 £38.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £81.71 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +94.54% +52.73%
75th Percentile £85.63 £82.56 £47.88
90th Percentile £89.75 £83.07 £51.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £81.71 £47.25
% change year-on-year -8.21% +72.92% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in the UK

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Management in the UK

Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Management in the UK

Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Management in the UK

Security Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Management in the UK

Security Management
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 Security Management within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +79 128 £550 -12.00% 179
UK excluding London +76 91 £550 -4.35% 121
Work from Home +31 48 £525 -8.70% 93
London +23 40 £563 -13.46% 64
North of England +48 32 £550 -4.35% 25
Yorkshire +33 21 £550 -4.35% 9
South West +48 18 £600 -12.73% 24
South East +35 15 £550 +11.11% 33
Midlands +32 13 £523 -0.43% 20
West Midlands +25 13 £523 -9.09% 11
Scotland +5 9 £502 +43.35% 5
North West +10 6 £675 +17.39% 15
North East +3 5 - - 1
East of England +35 4 - - 13

Security Management
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 16 (11.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.43%) Azure
2 14 (10.00%) AWS
3 11 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.43%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (2.86%) Serverless
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.43%) GCP
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.71%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.86%) Firewall
2 23 (16.43%) DNS
3 16 (11.43%) Network Security
4 8 (5.71%) VPN
5 6 (4.29%) DHCP
5 6 (4.29%) Internet
5 6 (4.29%) WAN
6 5 (3.57%) SSL
7 4 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (2.86%) LAN
7 4 (2.86%) MPLS
7 4 (2.86%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.86%) Wireless
8 3 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.43%) Ethernet
9 2 (1.43%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.14%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
General
1 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.86%) Finance
3 23 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.57%) Banking
5 8 (5.71%) Legal
6 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.57%) Law
8 5 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.14%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.14%) Military
9 3 (2.14%) Police
9 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.43%) Publishing
11 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.71%) Electronics
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (17.86%) Architect
2 24 (17.14%) Security Engineer
3 20 (14.29%) Consultant
4 18 (12.86%) Security Architect
5 16 (11.43%) Security Consultant
6 15 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (10.71%) Network Engineer
7 14 (10.00%) Senior
8 11 (7.86%) Security Manager
9 10 (7.14%) DevSecOps Architect
10 9 (6.43%) IT Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Administrator
11 8 (5.71%) Analyst
11 8 (5.71%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 8 (5.71%) Engineering Specialist
11 8 (5.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 7 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) Lead
12 7 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) LDAP
1 5 (3.57%) OAuth
1 5 (3.57%) SAML
2 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.71%) ISPF
2 1 (0.71%) ODBC
2 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 17 (12.14%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (10.71%) Security Posture
4 13 (9.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (8.57%) Operational Technology
6 9 (6.43%) Private Cloud
7 7 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (4.29%) CMDB
8 6 (4.29%) Mainframe
9 5 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (3.57%) Data Centre
9 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.14%) CCTV
10 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.43%) IBM Mainframe
11 2 (1.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.29%) Windows
2 25 (17.86%) Linux
3 20 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.29%) zOS
5 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (30.00%) Information Security
4 36 (25.71%) Agile
5 29 (20.71%) Information Security Management
6 25 (17.86%) ITIL
7 24 (17.14%) Risk Management
8 21 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (14.29%) Microservices
10 17 (12.14%) ISMS
11 16 (11.43%) Change Management
11 16 (11.43%) Incident Response
11 16 (11.43%) Roadmaps
11 16 (11.43%) Security Operations
11 16 (11.43%) SOA
12 15 (10.71%) DevOps
13 14 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (9.29%) Cloud Security
14 13 (9.29%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 21 (15.00%) Bash
3 19 (13.57%) SQL
4 16 (11.43%) PL/SQL
5 15 (10.71%) Perl
6 6 (4.29%) Python
7 1 (0.71%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.71%) Bicep
7 1 (0.71%) CLIST
7 1 (0.71%) Java
7 1 (0.71%) JCL
7 1 (0.71%) REXX
7 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.00%) CISSP
3 31 (22.14%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
5 24 (17.14%) CISM
6 17 (12.14%) Degree
7 13 (9.29%) CISA
8 11 (7.86%) CEH
9 9 (6.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (6.43%) CCSP
10 8 (5.71%) OSCP
11 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (3.57%) CCNP
12 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
12 5 (3.57%) IBM Certification
13 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
13 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (2.14%) ISACA
14 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (26.43%) NIST
2 30 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.57%) COBIT
4 10 (7.14%) GDPR
4 10 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.00%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (3.57%) Data Quality
6 5 (3.57%) GRC
6 5 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (3.57%) NCSC
6 5 (3.57%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.86%) HIPAA
8 3 (2.14%) SLA
9 2 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.43%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.71%) FISMA
10 1 (0.71%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (19.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.57%) RACF
2 5 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.71%) Docker
4 1 (0.71%) Firmware
4 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.71%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.71%) XenApp
4 1 (0.71%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (8.57%) SCCM
2 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.86%) CASB
4 4 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (2.86%) Terraform
4 4 (2.86%) WSUS
5 2 (1.43%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.43%) Nagios
5 2 (1.43%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.71%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.71%) OPNET
6 1 (0.71%) SELinux
Vendors
1 31 (22.14%) Cisco
2 29 (20.71%) Microsoft
3 20 (14.29%) Oracle
4 11 (7.86%) Fortinet
5 9 (6.43%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.00%) Aruba
6 7 (5.00%) IBM
6 7 (5.00%) VMware
7 6 (4.29%) HP
7 6 (4.29%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.57%) Qualys
8 5 (3.57%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.57%) Veeam
9 4 (2.86%) F5
10 3 (2.14%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.14%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (2.14%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.14%) Rapid7
10 3 (2.14%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (2.14%) Zscaler