IT Security Manager Contracts

IT Security Manager
UK

The median IT Security Manager daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 649 809
Rank change year-on-year +90 +160 -107
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Manager 25 48 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.086% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.091% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 32
10th Percentile £500 £459 £460
25th Percentile £563 £511 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £663
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

IT Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Manager in the UK

IT Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Security Manager in the UK

IT Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Security Manager over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Manager in the UK

IT Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Manager in the UK

IT Security Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +68 23 £650 +13.04% 6
London +74 15 £675 +14.89% 2
Work from Home +108 11 £738 +13.46% 4
UK excluding London +17 8 £575 +9.52% 4
South East +17 5 £575 -9.80%
South West +3 2 £525 +16.67% 2
West Midlands +11 1 £600 -12.73% 1
Midlands +9 1 £600 -7.69% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, IT 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 IT Security Manager in the job title.

1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 13 (52.00%) Project Management
3 8 (32.00%) NIST
4 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (24.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (24.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Information Security
7 4 (16.00%) Business Case
7 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (12.00%) Contract Management
8 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (12.00%) COBIT
8 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (12.00%) Banking
8 3 (12.00%) CISM
8 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
8 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (12.00%) CISSP
8 3 (12.00%) PMI Certification
9 2 (8.00%) PMP
9 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
9 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (8.00%) Scrum

IT 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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) PMI
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Project Management
2 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (24.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (20.00%) Information Security
5 4 (16.00%) Business Case
6 3 (12.00%) Contract Management
6 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.00%) Matrix Management
7 2 (8.00%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (8.00%) Scrum
7 2 (8.00%) Security Management
7 2 (8.00%) SIEM
7 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) CISM
1 3 (12.00%) CISSP
1 3 (12.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.00%) CEH
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) CISMP
2 2 (8.00%) CSSLP
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) GCIH
2 2 (8.00%) PMP
3 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) NIST
2 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (12.00%) COBIT
4 1 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Foundry
2 1 (4.00%) Rapid7