Cybersecurity Manager Contracts

Cybersecurity Manager
UK

The median Cybersecurity Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 521 664
Rank change year-on-year +23 +143 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 77 162 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 122 131
10th Percentile £455 £494 £431
25th Percentile £513 £525 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £625
90th Percentile £746 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% - -
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 - -

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +16 64 £625 +0.81% 41
UK excluding London +30 35 £550 -4.35% 22
London +38 32 £650 - 19
Work from Home +81 29 £525 -19.23% 15
Midlands +25 8 £625 +13.64% 6
West Midlands +16 8 £625 +13.64%
North of England +24 6 £500 -13.04% 4
South West -2 6 £525 -26.14% 4
Scotland +36 5 £575 +4.55% 1
South East +10 5 £575 +9.52% 6
East of England +3 5 £550 -8.33% 1
Yorkshire +20 4 £500 -4.76% 2
North West +20 2 £438 -23.91% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cybersecurity 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 Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (40.26%) Project Management
3 26 (33.77%) Finance
4 22 (28.57%) Project Delivery
5 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
6 15 (19.48%) CISSP
7 14 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
8 13 (16.88%) Static Application Security Testing
8 13 (16.88%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 12 (15.58%) Vulnerability Management
9 12 (15.58%) CISM
9 12 (15.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
10 11 (14.29%) Risk Management
10 11 (14.29%) Financial Institution
10 11 (14.29%) NIST
10 11 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
11 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (12.99%) PRINCE2
11 10 (12.99%) CISA
11 10 (12.99%) Azure
12 9 (11.69%) SIEM
12 9 (11.69%) Network Security
13 8 (10.39%) PMI Certification
13 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
13 8 (10.39%) Business Case
13 8 (10.39%) Security Operations
14 7 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (9.09%) Identity Access Management

Cybersecurity 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 (3.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Azure
2 5 (6.49%) AWS
2 5 (6.49%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (3.90%) Akamai
3 3 (3.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.90%) Cloudflare
4 2 (2.60%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.30%) GCP
5 1 (1.30%) GitHub
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Network Security
2 5 (6.49%) Firewall
3 2 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.60%) LAN
3 2 (2.60%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.30%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 26 (33.77%) Finance
2 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 6 (7.79%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Retail
8 2 (2.60%) Automotive
8 2 (2.60%) International Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Law
8 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) JWT
1 1 (1.30%) OLE
1 1 (1.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.90%) PMI
4 3 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.30%) Life Science
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (40.26%) Project Management
3 22 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 14 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
5 13 (16.88%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 13 (16.88%) Static Application Security Testing
6 12 (15.58%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 11 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 10 (12.99%) PRINCE2
8 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (11.69%) SIEM
10 8 (10.39%) Business Case
10 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
10 8 (10.39%) Security Operations
11 7 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
11 7 (9.09%) Project Governance
12 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (7.79%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) CISSP
2 12 (15.58%) CISM
3 10 (12.99%) CISA
4 8 (10.39%) PMI Certification
5 6 (7.79%) PMP
6 5 (6.49%) Degree
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.60%) FFIEC
9 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.30%) CCSK
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.30%) GCIA
9 1 (1.30%) GCIH
9 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (14.29%) NIST
3 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.90%) QA
5 2 (2.60%) NCSC
6 1 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.30%) GDPR
6 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kibana
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.90%) F5
4 2 (2.60%) Cisco
4 2 (2.60%) Darktrace
4 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.60%) Splunk
4 2 (2.60%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.30%) Google
5 1 (1.30%) Tufin