Cybersecurity Manager Contracts in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 July 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 103 119
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 4 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.50% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 6
10th Percentile £510 £524 £475
25th Percentile £525 £569 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +8.89% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £606
90th Percentile £590 £889 £631
England median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,473 1,799 2,119
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 91.41% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 1,232 1,475
10th Percentile £220 £250 £257
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £706
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 102 57
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £34.92 £36.88 £28.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £49.25
England median hourly rate £27.17 £42.50 £44.11
% change year-on-year -36.08% -3.65% +72.98%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity Manager
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Birmingham +1 1 - - 2
Warwickshire -8 1 £600 -4.00% 2
Shropshire - 1 £500 -
Cybersecurity Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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 West Midlands region featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) PMP
3 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) CISA
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CCTV
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)