IT Security Manager Jobs in London

IT Security Manager
England > London

The median IT Security Manager salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2025.

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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 481 591
Rank change year-on-year +107 +110 +283
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Manager 12 29 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.093% 0.12% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.13% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 23
10th Percentile £70,500 £63,000 £64,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,625 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £97,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 -
90th Percentile £103,000 £114,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,673 22,288 32,092
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.23% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,198 16,617 23,725
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,444
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

IT Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Manager in London

IT Security Manager
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for IT Security Manager in London

IT Security Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Manager in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Security Manager in London

IT Security Manager
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London +21 6 £75,000 -28.57% 1
IT Security Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, IT 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 London region featuring IT Security Manager in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Information Security
2 8 (66.67%) CISSP
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (41.67%) Degree
4 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
4 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (33.33%) Data Management
5 4 (33.33%) ITSM
5 4 (33.33%) SIEM
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (25.00%) GCP
6 3 (25.00%) SABSA
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) AWS
6 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (25.00%) PKI
6 3 (25.00%) Marketing
6 3 (25.00%) Data Security
6 3 (25.00%) Security Management
6 3 (25.00%) Service Management
6 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (25.00%) Symantec
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) CISM

IT Security Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) 4G
1 1 (8.33%) 5G
1 1 (8.33%) IPsec
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
1 1 (8.33%) VoIP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Law
3 3 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (25.00%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (25.00%) PKI
1 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Information Security
2 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Data Management
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 4 (33.33%) ITSM
4 4 (33.33%) SIEM
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Data Security
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Key Management
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) SABSA
5 3 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 3 (25.00%) Security Management
5 3 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CISSP
2 5 (41.67%) Degree
3 3 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (25.00%) CCSK
3 3 (25.00%) CCSP
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (25.00%) CISM
4 2 (16.67%) CISA
4 2 (16.67%) OSCE
4 2 (16.67%) OSCP
5 1 (8.33%) CEH
5 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
3 1 (8.33%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (25.00%) CASB
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Symantec
1 3 (25.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Sophos