Security Incident Manager Contracts

Security Incident Manager
UK

The median Security Incident Manager daily rate in the UK is £750, 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 581 690 837
Rank change year-on-year +109 +147 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Security Incident Manager 3 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.013% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.013% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £585 £475 £473
25th Percentile £638 £569 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +30.00% +61.29%
75th Percentile £775 £684 £538
90th Percentile - £731 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £400 £675
% change year-on-year +37.50% -40.74% +117.74%

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%

Security Incident Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Incident Manager in the UK

Security Incident Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Incident Manager in the UK

Security Incident Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Incident Manager in the UK

Security Incident Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Incident 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 +82 3 £750 +15.38% 1
London +78 2 £750 +15.38%
Work from Home +114 1 £550 -15.38%
UK excluding London +29 1 £550 +37.50%
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

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

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

1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) CISM
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) OLE
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Snort
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence

Security Incident 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (33.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (33.33%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk