Security Manager Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Security Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 132 140
Rank change year-on-year +33 +8 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 13 11 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.46% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.48% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 25
10th Percentile £551 £490 £480
25th Percentile £563 £525 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £659 £600 £700
90th Percentile £744 £690 £758
England median daily rate £645 £618 £550
% change year-on-year +4.45% +12.27% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,761 2,271 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 94.94% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 1,562 2,511
10th Percentile £259 £250 £215
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 67 85
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.05 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.25 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the West Midlands

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the West Midlands

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the West Midlands

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the West Midlands

Security 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 Security Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Warwickshire - 9 £613 - 1
Birmingham +6 2 £475 -13.64% 6
Security Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Security 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 Security Manager in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (53.85%) Project Management
3 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (38.46%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Programme Management
6 3 (23.08%) Information Security
6 3 (23.08%) Law
6 3 (23.08%) Java
6 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (23.08%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (15.38%) Software Deployment
7 2 (15.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 2 (15.38%) Budgeting
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (15.38%) ITIL
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 2 (15.38%) Service Management
7 2 (15.38%) ITSM
7 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 2 (15.38%) Validation

Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) tcpdump
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Law
4 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) CCTV
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (53.85%) Project Management
3 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (38.46%) Privileged Access Management
5 4 (30.77%) Programme Management
6 3 (23.08%) Information Security
6 3 (23.08%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (15.38%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) Budgeting
7 2 (15.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 2 (15.38%) Change Control
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
7 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
7 2 (15.38%) Service Management
7 2 (15.38%) SIEM
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk