Security Manager Contracts in London

Security Manager
England > London

The median Security Manager daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 274 408
Rank change year-on-year -20 +134 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 97 229 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.89% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.93% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 177 137
10th Percentile £435 £518 £450
25th Percentile £563 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +15.94%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
England median daily rate £625 £620 £575
% change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
% change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% +274.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,297 24,521 37,086
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.19% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,779 17,832 27,179
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +0.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 279 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - +14.01%
75th Percentile £44.25 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.61 £82.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in London

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in London

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in London

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in London

Security Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London +26 15 £675 +2.43% 3
East London +3 12 £650 -4.06% 2
Security Manager
England

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

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

1 47 (48.45%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (46.39%) Finance
3 41 (42.27%) Project Management
4 29 (29.90%) Information Security
5 24 (24.74%) Static Application Security Testing
5 24 (24.74%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 22 (22.68%) Project Delivery
7 21 (21.65%) CISSP
8 18 (18.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (18.56%) CISM
9 15 (15.46%) Vulnerability Management
9 15 (15.46%) Management Information System
10 14 (14.43%) Security Operations
10 14 (14.43%) Social Skills
10 14 (14.43%) Cloud Security
11 13 (13.40%) NIST
11 13 (13.40%) CISA
12 12 (12.37%) Financial Institution
12 12 (12.37%) PRINCE2
12 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
13 10 (10.31%) PMI Certification
13 10 (10.31%) Risk Management
13 10 (10.31%) Banking
13 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
13 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
13 10 (10.31%) Incident Response
14 9 (9.28%) Agile
15 8 (8.25%) Legal
15 8 (8.25%) Business Case
16 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving

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 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.15%) Azure
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.09%) AWS
3 3 (3.09%) Mimecast
4 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.06%) IaaS
4 2 (2.06%) PaaS
4 2 (2.06%) SaaS
5 1 (1.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Firewall
2 2 (2.06%) SNA
3 1 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
3 1 (1.03%) Network Security
3 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.03%) VoIP
3 1 (1.03%) WAN
3 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 45 (46.39%) Finance
2 14 (14.43%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Financial Institution
4 10 (10.31%) Banking
5 8 (8.25%) Legal
6 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.19%) Law
8 5 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.12%) Military
9 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.09%) Marketing
11 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.03%) Local Government
12 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.15%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (5.15%) PMI
3 3 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.09%) Learning Management System
3 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
1 3 (3.09%) Unix
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (42.27%) Project Management
3 29 (29.90%) Information Security
4 24 (24.74%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 24 (24.74%) Static Application Security Testing
5 22 (22.68%) Project Delivery
6 15 (15.46%) Vulnerability Management
7 14 (14.43%) Cloud Security
7 14 (14.43%) Security Operations
8 12 (12.37%) PRINCE2
9 10 (10.31%) Incident Response
9 10 (10.31%) Risk Management
10 9 (9.28%) Agile
11 8 (8.25%) Business Case
12 7 (7.22%) Data Loss Prevention
12 7 (7.22%) Enterprise Architecture
12 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (7.22%) Programme Management
12 7 (7.22%) Security Testing
13 6 (6.19%) ISMS
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) CISSP
2 18 (18.56%) CISM
3 13 (13.40%) CISA
4 10 (10.31%) PMI Certification
4 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.19%) Degree
5 6 (6.19%) PMP
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) CCIE
7 1 (1.03%) CCIE Security
7 1 (1.03%) CCIE Service Provider
7 1 (1.03%) CCNA
7 1 (1.03%) CCNP
7 1 (1.03%) CCSP
7 1 (1.03%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.03%) FFIEC
7 1 (1.03%) GCIA
7 1 (1.03%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (13.40%) NIST
3 6 (6.19%) GDPR
4 4 (4.12%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.09%) GRC
6 2 (2.06%) QA
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) CASB
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.06%) Darktrace
2 2 (2.06%) SAP
3 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco
3 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.03%) Meraki
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle
3 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.03%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.03%) Sophos
3 1 (1.03%) Tufin
3 1 (1.03%) Zscaler