Security Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 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 324 333 321
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 71 105 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.46% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.49% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 71 161
10th Percentile £463 £488 £445
25th Percentile £513 £525 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £670
90th Percentile £725 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £625 £618 £550
% change year-on-year +1.21% +12.27% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 - £78.25
Median hourly rate £31.80 - £80.50
75th Percentile £32.90 - £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
% change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% +274.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South West +11 21 £525 -25.96% 2
South East -7 15 £625 +2.04% 13
Midlands +21 13 £613 +11.36% 14
West Midlands +17 13 £613 +11.36% 8
North of England +24 11 £500 -9.09% 14
Scotland +40 6 £573 +4.09% 3
North West +26 6 £676 +20.18% 7
Yorkshire +18 5 £500 -4.76% 7
East of England +5 5 £550 -7.56% 9
Security Manager
UK

Security Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 42 (59.15%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (30.99%) Project Management
3 21 (29.58%) Risk Management
4 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
5 16 (22.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (21.13%) Agile
7 14 (19.72%) Information Security
8 13 (18.31%) Finance
8 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
8 13 (18.31%) Social Skills
9 12 (16.90%) Business Case
9 12 (16.90%) Cloud Security
9 12 (16.90%) PRINCE2
9 12 (16.90%) CISSP
10 11 (15.49%) CISM
11 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (12.68%) Azure
12 9 (12.68%) Security Architecture
12 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
12 9 (12.68%) PMI Certification
12 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
12 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
13 8 (11.27%) Programme Management
13 8 (11.27%) Project Delivery
13 8 (11.27%) Decision-Making
13 8 (11.27%) Privileged Access Management
14 7 (9.86%) Security Posture
14 7 (9.86%) Incident Response
14 7 (9.86%) Contingency Planning
14 7 (9.86%) Degree

Security Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (2.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.68%) Azure
2 5 (7.04%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (4.23%) Akamai
3 3 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (4.23%) AWS
3 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.23%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) Network Security
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.82%) LAN
2 2 (2.82%) WAN
3 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.41%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 13 (18.31%) Finance
1 13 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Publishing
4 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.63%) Military
4 4 (5.63%) Retail
5 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Automotive
6 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Police
7 1 (1.41%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Security Posture
2 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.63%) PMI
4 3 (4.23%) CCTV
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.41%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.41%) Life Science
6 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.41%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (59.15%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (30.99%) Project Management
3 21 (29.58%) Risk Management
4 16 (22.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (21.13%) Agile
6 14 (19.72%) Information Security
7 12 (16.90%) Business Case
7 12 (16.90%) Cloud Security
7 12 (16.90%) PRINCE2
8 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.68%) Security Architecture
10 8 (11.27%) Decision-Making
10 8 (11.27%) Privileged Access Management
10 8 (11.27%) Programme Management
10 8 (11.27%) Project Delivery
11 7 (9.86%) Contingency Planning
11 7 (9.86%) Incident Response
12 6 (8.45%) Coaching
12 6 (8.45%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (8.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) CISSP
3 11 (15.49%) CISM
4 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
4 9 (12.68%) PMI Certification
4 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
5 7 (9.86%) Degree
6 5 (7.04%) CISA
6 5 (7.04%) Master's Degree
6 5 (7.04%) PMP
7 4 (5.63%) MBA
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (1.41%) CCIE
10 1 (1.41%) CCNA
10 1 (1.41%) CCNP
10 1 (1.41%) CCSP
10 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.41%) CSSLP
10 1 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.04%) NIST
3 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 2 (2.82%) GRC
3 2 (2.82%) NCSC
3 2 (2.82%) QA
4 1 (1.41%) COBIT
4 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.41%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.23%) F5
4 2 (2.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (1.41%) Splunk
5 1 (1.41%) Zscaler