Security Manager
UK

The median Security Manager salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 392 525 600
Rank change year-on-year +133 +75 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Manager 386 722 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.58% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.60% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 277 514 428
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,036 £48,625
25th Percentile £60,750 £60,000 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 51,902 119,603 122,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.53% 95.33% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 37,937 74,977 83,259
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Manager over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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
England +165 338 £75,000 - 149
UK excluding London +108 195 £65,000 -3.70% 79
Work from Home +130 185 £72,500 - 69
London +144 165 £88,000 +6.67% 67
North of England +87 51 £68,389 +5.21% 19
Midlands +131 41 £62,500 -16.67% 14
South West +42 33 £70,000 +18.64% 17
South East +146 32 £70,000 -6.67% 20
North West +68 26 £65,000 - 12
Yorkshire +102 24 £85,500 +31.54% 3
West Midlands +109 23 £62,000 -17.33% 9
East Midlands +55 15 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Scotland +11 12 £67,500 +3.85% 3
East of England +97 11 £72,500 +20.83% 8
Wales -19 10 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
North East +33 1 £63,000 -16.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2023, 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 featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 269 (69.69%) Cybersecurity
2 204 (52.85%) Information Security
3 166 (43.01%) CISSP
4 164 (42.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 160 (41.45%) Social Skills
6 123 (31.87%) Security Operations
6 123 (31.87%) CISM
7 114 (29.53%) SIEM
8 110 (28.50%) Security Management
9 104 (26.94%) Risk Management
10 102 (26.42%) GDPR
11 101 (26.17%) Vulnerability Management
12 85 (22.02%) Incident Management
13 84 (21.76%) Windows
13 84 (21.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 81 (20.98%) Security Operations Centre
15 80 (20.73%) Intrusion Detection
16 75 (19.43%) Firewall
17 73 (18.91%) LAN
18 72 (18.65%) WAN
19 71 (18.39%) Management Information System
19 71 (18.39%) Business Continuity
19 71 (18.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
20 70 (18.13%) Impact Assessments
21 69 (17.88%) Azure
22 67 (17.36%) Service Management
22 67 (17.36%) Unix
23 63 (16.32%) SSCP
24 61 (15.80%) Games
25 60 (15.54%) Impact Analysis

Security Manager Skill Set
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 3 (0.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.26%) MS Project Server
2 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 69 (17.88%) Azure
2 25 (6.48%) AWS
3 24 (6.22%) SaaS
4 22 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (3.37%) GCP
6 13 (3.37%) IaaS
7 11 (2.85%) PaaS
8 10 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.33%) Datadog
10 7 (1.81%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.52%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.52%) Tessian
11 2 (0.52%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 80 (20.73%) Intrusion Detection
2 75 (19.43%) Firewall
3 73 (18.91%) LAN
4 72 (18.65%) WAN
5 40 (10.36%) Network Security
6 14 (3.63%) VPN
7 11 (2.85%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.33%) WLAN
9 7 (1.81%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.04%) Internet
10 4 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.04%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.78%) DHCP
11 3 (0.78%) DNS
11 3 (0.78%) MPLS
12 2 (0.52%) OSPF
12 2 (0.52%) SAN
12 2 (0.52%) Wireless
13 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.59%) Metadata
2 7 (1.81%) Power BI
3 4 (1.04%) GIS
4 3 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (3.37%) JIRA
General
1 160 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.80%) Games
3 44 (11.40%) Legal
4 41 (10.62%) Finance
5 32 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 27 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.92%) Law
8 14 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.85%) Banking
9 11 (2.85%) Retail
10 10 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.07%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.55%) Marketing
14 5 (1.30%) Advertising
14 5 (1.30%) Local Government
14 5 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.30%) Publishing
15 4 (1.04%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.04%) EDI
1 4 (1.04%) Middleware
2 1 (0.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.98%) Security Operations Centre
2 71 (18.39%) Management Information System
3 20 (5.18%) Operational Technology
4 19 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 17 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
6 14 (3.63%) Cyberattack
6 14 (3.63%) PKI
7 12 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.11%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.81%) Cybercrime
11 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.30%) CESG
12 5 (1.30%) CSOC
12 5 (1.30%) PMI
13 4 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 84 (21.76%) Windows
2 67 (17.36%) Unix
3 30 (7.77%) Linux
4 9 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.55%) AIX
6 4 (1.04%) Android
6 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (69.69%) Cybersecurity
2 204 (52.85%) Information Security
3 123 (31.87%) Security Operations
4 114 (29.53%) SIEM
5 110 (28.50%) Security Management
6 104 (26.94%) Risk Management
7 101 (26.17%) Vulnerability Management
8 85 (22.02%) Incident Management
9 84 (21.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 71 (18.39%) Business Continuity
10 71 (18.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 70 (18.13%) Impact Assessments
12 67 (17.36%) Service Management
13 60 (15.54%) Impact Analysis
14 50 (12.95%) Data Protection
15 49 (12.69%) ITIL
16 47 (12.18%) Incident Response
17 42 (10.88%) Penetration Testing
17 42 (10.88%) Roadmaps
18 39 (10.10%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.85%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.59%) Bash
2 10 (2.59%) Python
3 9 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (0.52%) C#
4 2 (0.52%) SQL
5 1 (0.26%) C
5 1 (0.26%) C++
5 1 (0.26%) Java
5 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 166 (43.01%) CISSP
2 123 (31.87%) CISM
3 63 (16.32%) SSCP
4 36 (9.33%) Degree
5 26 (6.74%) CISA
6 22 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (4.66%) Security Cleared
8 17 (4.40%) SC Cleared
9 13 (3.37%) CCSP
10 12 (3.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (2.85%) CISMP
11 11 (2.85%) CRISC
12 10 (2.59%) CCNA
13 9 (2.33%) CEH
13 9 (2.33%) CREST Certified
13 9 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (2.07%) CCNP
14 8 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (2.07%) OSCP
15 6 (1.55%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (42.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (26.42%) GDPR
3 47 (12.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 47 (12.18%) NIST
4 30 (7.77%) GRC
5 25 (6.48%) PCI DSS
6 15 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (2.59%) PMO
8 9 (2.33%) NCSC
9 6 (1.55%) COBIT
9 6 (1.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 6 (1.55%) SLA
9 6 (1.55%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (1.30%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.52%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 15 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.59%) Docker
4 3 (0.78%) XenApp
4 3 (0.78%) XenDesktop
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.26%) Ceph
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.59%) Kubernetes
1 10 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (2.59%) Terraform
2 9 (2.33%) Ansible
3 5 (1.30%) Stealthwatch
4 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.26%) Mesos
6 1 (0.26%) Nessus
6 1 (0.26%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.70%) Cisco
3 17 (4.40%) VMware
4 12 (3.11%) Meraki
4 12 (3.11%) Splunk
5 9 (2.33%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.33%) New Relic
5 9 (2.33%) Palo Alto
6 7 (1.81%) Aruba
6 7 (1.81%) Tanium
7 6 (1.55%) F5
7 6 (1.55%) Google
8 4 (1.04%) FireEye
8 4 (1.04%) Symantec
9 3 (0.78%) Citrix
9 3 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.78%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.78%) Qualys
10 2 (0.52%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.52%) Tripwire