Security Manager Jobs in England

Security Manager
UK > England

The median Security Manager salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 451 538
Rank change year-on-year -34 +87 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Manager 208 462 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.52% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 121 376 281
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £61,229
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -8.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,063 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.11% -5.52% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,899 89,105 75,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.60% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 23,937 65,081 49,503
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,402 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.98% +0.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in England.

Salary trend for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Manager in England

Security Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +35 59 £72,500 -14.71% 79
North of England +43 57 £56,500 +2.73% 26
South East +53 45 £74,000 +23.33% 61
North West -7 39 £55,000 -4.35% 15
South West +73 19 £64,627 -5.65% 20
Yorkshire +57 13 £65,000 +30.00% 8
Midlands +27 13 £65,000 -2.26% 19
East of England +24 11 £90,000 +24.14% 17
East Midlands +33 9 £75,000 +12.78% 8
North East +53 5 £70,000 +27.27% 3
West Midlands +34 4 £65,000 - 10
Security Manager
UK

Security Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 June 2025, Security Manager 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 134 (64.42%) Information Security
2 115 (55.29%) CISSP
3 96 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
4 90 (43.27%) Degree
5 79 (37.98%) Management Information System
6 66 (31.73%) Finance
7 65 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 63 (30.29%) Project Management
9 59 (28.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 58 (27.88%) Mentoring
11 54 (25.96%) CISM
12 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
13 45 (21.63%) Risk Management
14 41 (19.71%) NIST
15 32 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
16 31 (14.90%) Cloud Security
16 31 (14.90%) Security Management
16 31 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (11.54%) Security Operations
17 24 (11.54%) Incident Response
18 22 (10.58%) GDPR
18 22 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
19 21 (10.10%) Vulnerability Management
19 21 (10.10%) Azure
19 21 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
19 21 (10.10%) CISA
20 20 (9.62%) Data Protection
20 20 (9.62%) Roadmaps
21 19 (9.13%) Information Security Management
21 19 (9.13%) Microsoft

Security Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.44%) Confluence
2 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.10%) Azure
2 11 (5.29%) AWS
3 6 (2.88%) GCP
4 3 (1.44%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (1.44%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.48%) SaaS
6 1 (0.48%) Serverless
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) Network Security
2 8 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) HTTP
3 2 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.96%) VoIP
3 2 (0.96%) VPN
4 1 (0.48%) 4G
4 1 (0.48%) 5G
4 1 (0.48%) Broadband
4 1 (0.48%) IPsec
4 1 (0.48%) Mobile Broadband
4 1 (0.48%) SSL
4 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.44%) JIRA
General
1 66 (31.73%) Finance
2 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.25%) Legal
5 10 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.85%) Retail
7 7 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.88%) Publishing
9 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Law
11 3 (1.44%) Marketing
11 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Banking
12 2 (0.96%) Military
13 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.40%) EDI
1 5 (2.40%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 79 (37.98%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.65%) Security Posture
3 15 (7.21%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (5.77%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (3.37%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.88%) Freedom of Information
6 6 (2.88%) Freedom of Information Act
7 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.92%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.44%) PKI
8 3 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.96%) CSOC
9 2 (0.96%) PMI
9 2 (0.96%) SCADA
9 2 (0.96%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.92%) Windows
2 3 (1.44%) Linux
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (64.42%) Information Security
2 96 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (30.29%) Project Management
4 58 (27.88%) Mentoring
5 45 (21.63%) Risk Management
6 31 (14.90%) Cloud Security
6 31 (14.90%) Security Management
6 31 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (11.54%) Incident Response
7 24 (11.54%) Security Operations
8 22 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (10.10%) Vulnerability Management
10 20 (9.62%) Data Protection
10 20 (9.62%) Roadmaps
11 19 (9.13%) Information Security Management
12 18 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (8.17%) Agile
14 15 (7.21%) Computer Science
14 15 (7.21%) Incident Management
14 15 (7.21%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.44%) Python
1 3 (1.44%) R
2 2 (0.96%) C++
2 2 (0.96%) Java
2 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
2 2 (0.96%) Rust
3 1 (0.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 115 (55.29%) CISSP
2 90 (43.27%) Degree
3 59 (28.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 54 (25.96%) CISM
5 21 (10.10%) CISA
6 18 (8.65%) Security Cleared
7 12 (5.77%) CRISC
8 11 (5.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 9 (4.33%) SC Cleared
10 8 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (3.37%) PMI Certification
12 6 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.88%) CCSP
12 6 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.40%) CISMP
13 5 (2.40%) PMP
14 4 (1.92%) CEH
14 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.92%) OSCP
15 3 (1.44%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (19.71%) NIST
3 32 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (10.58%) GDPR
5 18 (8.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 16 (7.69%) GRC
7 15 (7.21%) PCI DSS
8 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (3.37%) COBIT
10 6 (2.88%) HIPAA
11 5 (2.40%) SOC 2
12 4 (1.92%) PMO
13 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.96%) SLA
14 1 (0.48%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.48%) NCSC
14 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.44%) CASB
3 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.44%) Symantec
2 3 (1.44%) Zscaler
3 2 (0.96%) Alibaba
3 2 (0.96%) Google
4 1 (0.48%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.48%) Darktrace
4 1 (0.48%) HP
4 1 (0.48%) Monzo
4 1 (0.48%) OneTrust
4 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.48%) Planview
4 1 (0.48%) Qualys
4 1 (0.48%) Samsung
4 1 (0.48%) Sophos
4 1 (0.48%) Splunk
4 1 (0.48%) Tenable