Security Manager Contracts

Security Manager
UK

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK is £644 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 361 434
Rank change year-on-year -40 +73 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 198 397 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.67% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.71% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 289 370
10th Percentile £463 £500 £425
25th Percentile £534 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £618 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +12.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £713 £643
90th Percentile £775 £814 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £569 £548
% change year-on-year +5.49% +3.79% +6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 £78.25
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% -
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 - £80.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the UK

Security Manager
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England -6 175 £645 +4.45% 131
London -10 101 £650 +4.00% 70
Work from Home +51 84 £613 -2.00% 50
UK excluding London +22 76 £600 +5.49% 70
South West +25 22 £525 -18.79% 4
Midlands +28 17 £606 +10.23% 10
South East -5 15 £645 +3.20% 22
West Midlands +30 14 £613 +11.36% 8
North of England +26 11 £550 - 15
Scotland +38 6 £573 -11.92% 8
Yorkshire +25 6 £500 -4.76% 2
North West +25 5 £676 +20.18% 13
East of England +1 5 £550 -6.78% 15
East Midlands +13 1 £600 +20.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 99 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (41.41%) Project Management
3 65 (32.83%) Finance
4 49 (24.75%) Information Security
5 40 (20.20%) Social Skills
6 39 (19.70%) Project Delivery
7 34 (17.17%) CISSP
8 33 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 33 (16.67%) Agile
9 31 (15.66%) Security Cleared
10 29 (14.65%) PRINCE2
11 28 (14.14%) CISM
11 28 (14.14%) Static Application Security Testing
11 28 (14.14%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 27 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 25 (12.63%) Vulnerability Management
13 25 (12.63%) Management Information System
13 25 (12.63%) Microsoft
14 24 (12.12%) Cloud Security
15 22 (11.11%) Business Case
15 22 (11.11%) Security Operations
15 22 (11.11%) PMI Certification
15 22 (11.11%) Programme Management
15 22 (11.11%) SC Cleared
16 20 (10.10%) CISA
17 17 (8.59%) Banking
17 17 (8.59%) Azure
17 17 (8.59%) NIST
17 17 (8.59%) Incident Response

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 4 (2.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.51%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.59%) Azure
2 7 (3.54%) AWS
3 6 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.02%) SaaS
6 3 (1.52%) Akamai
6 3 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (1.52%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.52%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.01%) IaaS
7 2 (1.01%) PaaS
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.56%) Network Security
2 9 (4.55%) Firewall
3 5 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.02%) LAN
4 4 (2.02%) SNA
4 4 (2.02%) WAN
5 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.01%) Wireless
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.51%) SAN
6 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.51%) VoIP
6 1 (0.51%) VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
1 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.51%) MySQL
1 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 65 (32.83%) Finance
2 40 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.59%) Banking
4 15 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.07%) Financial Institution
6 13 (6.57%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.05%) Military
8 9 (4.55%) Law
8 9 (4.55%) Legal
9 7 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.03%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.53%) Publishing
12 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.02%) Retail
13 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.52%) Marketing
14 2 (1.01%) Automotive
15 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) EDI
1 1 (0.51%) OLE
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.63%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.57%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.55%) PMI
4 6 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.02%) CCTV
7 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.52%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.51%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.53%) Linux
1 5 (2.53%) Windows
2 3 (1.52%) Unix
3 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Android
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (41.41%) Project Management
3 49 (24.75%) Information Security
4 39 (19.70%) Project Delivery
5 33 (16.67%) Agile
5 33 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 29 (14.65%) PRINCE2
7 28 (14.14%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 28 (14.14%) Static Application Security Testing
8 27 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (12.63%) Vulnerability Management
10 24 (12.12%) Cloud Security
11 22 (11.11%) Business Case
11 22 (11.11%) Programme Management
11 22 (11.11%) Security Operations
12 17 (8.59%) Incident Response
13 16 (8.08%) Decision-Making
13 16 (8.08%) Privileged Access Management
13 16 (8.08%) Waterfall
14 15 (7.58%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.52%) Java
2 1 (0.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.17%) CISSP
2 31 (15.66%) Security Cleared
3 28 (14.14%) CISM
4 22 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 22 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 20 (10.10%) CISA
6 16 (8.08%) Degree
7 15 (7.58%) PMP
8 13 (6.57%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.02%) MBA
11 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.52%) CCIE
11 3 (1.52%) CCIE Security
12 2 (1.01%) CCIE Service Provider
12 2 (1.01%) CCNA
12 2 (1.01%) CCNP
12 2 (1.01%) CCSP
12 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (8.59%) NIST
3 8 (4.04%) GDPR
4 7 (3.54%) GRC
5 5 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.02%) NCSC
6 4 (2.02%) QA
7 2 (1.01%) SLA
7 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.51%) COBIT
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.51%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.51%) PMO
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) Snort
3 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.51%) CASB
2 1 (0.51%) Kibana
2 1 (0.51%) PaperCut
2 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.53%) Atlassian
2 5 (2.53%) Cisco
3 3 (1.52%) F5
3 3 (1.52%) IBM
3 3 (1.52%) Splunk
4 2 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
4 2 (1.01%) Darktrace
4 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.01%) SAP
4 2 (1.01%) VMware
5 1 (0.51%) Aruba
5 1 (0.51%) Google
5 1 (0.51%) Meraki
5 1 (0.51%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.51%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.51%) WatchGuard
5 1 (0.51%) Zscaler