Security Manager Contracts

Security Manager
UK

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK is £625 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 389 343 418
Rank change year-on-year -46 +75 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 191 392 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.74% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 278 395
10th Percentile £450 £500 £434
25th Percentile £513 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £618 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +10.27% +10.84%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £801 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £33.88 -
25th Percentile £30.70 £38.56 -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £47.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.40% - -
75th Percentile £32.90 £57.56 -
90th Percentile - £62.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 £31.50 -
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -

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%

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 June 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 13 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 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 -54 164 £625 +0.81% 137
London -20 93 £650 +4.00% 76
Work from Home +28 77 £588 -6.00% 40
UK excluding London 0 74 £575 - 71
South West +6 21 £525 -25.96% 6
South East -11 16 £613 +8.89% 21
Midlands +14 12 £600 +9.09% 17
West Midlands +8 12 £600 +6.67% 5
North of England +21 11 £500 -9.09% 12
East of England 0 8 £376 -36.76% 11
Scotland +33 6 £573 +4.09% 3
North West +21 6 £676 +20.18% 6
Yorkshire +16 5 £500 -4.76% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 108 (56.54%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (34.55%) Project Management
3 60 (31.41%) Finance
4 49 (25.65%) Information Security
5 41 (21.47%) Social Skills
6 36 (18.85%) CISSP
7 35 (18.32%) Risk Management
7 35 (18.32%) Project Delivery
8 32 (16.75%) Security Cleared
9 31 (16.23%) CISM
10 30 (15.71%) Cloud Security
11 28 (14.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 28 (14.66%) NIST
12 27 (14.14%) Agile
13 25 (13.09%) Microsoft
13 25 (13.09%) PRINCE2
14 24 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (12.57%) SC Cleared
15 21 (10.99%) Security Operations
15 21 (10.99%) PMI Certification
16 20 (10.47%) Management Information System
16 20 (10.47%) Vulnerability Management
16 20 (10.47%) Business Case
16 20 (10.47%) Static Application Security Testing
16 20 (10.47%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
17 19 (9.95%) Privileged Access Management
18 16 (8.38%) Incident Response
18 16 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
18 16 (8.38%) CISA
19 15 (7.85%) Banking

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 5 (2.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
1 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.33%) Azure
2 9 (4.71%) AWS
3 6 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.57%) Akamai
4 3 (1.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.57%) Cloudflare
4 3 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.57%) Mimecast
4 3 (1.57%) SaaS
5 2 (1.05%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.05%) IaaS
5 2 (1.05%) PaaS
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.52%) GCP
6 1 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.71%) Firewall
2 7 (3.66%) Network Security
3 5 (2.62%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.57%) Extranet
5 2 (1.05%) Intranet
5 2 (1.05%) LAN
5 2 (1.05%) SNA
5 2 (1.05%) VPN
5 2 (1.05%) WAN
6 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
1 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 60 (31.41%) Finance
2 41 (21.47%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.85%) Banking
5 12 (6.28%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.71%) Law
8 8 (4.19%) Military
9 7 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.66%) Legal
9 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.62%) Publishing
10 5 (2.62%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.09%) Retail
12 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.57%) Marketing
13 2 (1.05%) Automotive
14 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.52%) JWT
1 1 (0.52%) OLE
1 1 (0.52%) OpenID
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.81%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.71%) PMI
4 6 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.57%) CCTV
6 3 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.57%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.57%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.52%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.09%) Linux
2 3 (1.57%) Unix
2 3 (1.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (56.54%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (34.55%) Project Management
3 49 (25.65%) Information Security
4 35 (18.32%) Project Delivery
4 35 (18.32%) Risk Management
5 30 (15.71%) Cloud Security
6 27 (14.14%) Agile
7 25 (13.09%) PRINCE2
8 24 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (10.99%) Security Operations
10 20 (10.47%) Business Case
10 20 (10.47%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 20 (10.47%) Static Application Security Testing
10 20 (10.47%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (9.95%) Privileged Access Management
12 16 (8.38%) Incident Response
13 15 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (7.85%) Programme Management
13 15 (7.85%) SIEM
14 14 (7.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (18.85%) CISSP
2 32 (16.75%) Security Cleared
3 31 (16.23%) CISM
4 24 (12.57%) SC Cleared
5 21 (10.99%) PMI Certification
6 16 (8.38%) CISA
7 15 (7.85%) Degree
8 13 (6.81%) PMP
9 11 (5.76%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.09%) MBA
12 3 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.57%) GCIH
13 2 (1.05%) CEH
13 2 (1.05%) CISMP
13 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.05%) CSSLP
13 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 28 (14.66%) NIST
2 9 (4.71%) GRC
3 8 (4.19%) GDPR
4 5 (2.62%) NCSC
4 5 (2.62%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.62%) QA
5 3 (1.57%) COBIT
6 2 (1.05%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (2.09%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.52%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) CASB
1 1 (0.52%) Kibana
1 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.14%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.09%) Cisco
4 3 (1.57%) CyberArk
4 3 (1.57%) F5
4 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
4 3 (1.57%) Splunk
5 2 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.05%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.05%) IBM
5 2 (1.05%) Okta
5 2 (1.05%) SAP
5 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.52%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.52%) Tufin