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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 342 425
Rank change year-on-year -49 +83 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 191 398 517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.73% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 290 385
10th Percentile £455 £500 £428
25th Percentile £525 £550 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £618 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +12.27% +9.89%
75th Percentile £688 £709 £650
90th Percentile £775 £821 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
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% +274.42%
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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 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 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 20 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 -29 167 £625 +0.40% 119
London -15 98 £650 +4.00% 62
Work from Home +30 81 £600 -4.00% 33
UK excluding London +18 71 £600 +4.35% 73
South West +10 21 £525 -25.96% 4
South East -4 15 £625 +2.04% 21
West Midlands +23 13 £613 +11.36% 10
Midlands +17 13 £613 +11.36% 15
North of England +27 11 £500 -9.09% 15
Scotland +41 6 £573 +4.09% 3
North West +16 6 £676 +20.18% 7
Yorkshire +16 5 £500 -4.76% 8
East of England +2 5 £550 -7.56% 11

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 102 (53.40%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (36.65%) Project Management
3 59 (30.89%) Finance
4 48 (25.13%) Information Security
5 37 (19.37%) Social Skills
6 35 (18.32%) Risk Management
7 34 (17.80%) CISSP
7 34 (17.80%) Project Delivery
8 30 (15.71%) Security Cleared
9 29 (15.18%) CISM
9 29 (15.18%) Cloud Security
10 28 (14.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 27 (14.14%) Agile
12 25 (13.09%) Microsoft
12 25 (13.09%) PRINCE2
13 24 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (12.57%) Static Application Security Testing
13 24 (12.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
14 23 (12.04%) NIST
14 23 (12.04%) Vulnerability Management
15 22 (11.52%) SC Cleared
15 22 (11.52%) Management Information System
16 21 (10.99%) Security Operations
17 20 (10.47%) Business Case
17 20 (10.47%) PMI Certification
18 18 (9.42%) CISA
19 17 (8.90%) Programme Management
19 17 (8.90%) Incident Response
20 16 (8.38%) Privileged Access Management
20 16 (8.38%) 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 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 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 15 (7.85%) Azure
2 8 (4.19%) AWS
3 6 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.57%) Akamai
5 3 (1.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.57%) Cloudflare
5 3 (1.57%) Mimecast
5 3 (1.57%) SaaS
6 2 (1.05%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.05%) IaaS
6 2 (1.05%) PaaS
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.19%) Firewall
1 8 (4.19%) Network Security
2 5 (2.62%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.57%) LAN
3 3 (1.57%) WAN
4 2 (1.05%) SNA
4 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.52%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.52%) VoIP
5 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 59 (30.89%) Finance
2 37 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.38%) Banking
4 14 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.28%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.71%) Legal
8 8 (4.19%) Law
8 8 (4.19%) Military
9 7 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.62%) Publishing
11 5 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.09%) Retail
13 3 (1.57%) Marketing
14 2 (1.05%) Automotive
14 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.52%) OLE
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.52%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.76%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.71%) PMI
4 6 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
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
7 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.52%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.09%) Linux
1 4 (2.09%) Windows
2 3 (1.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (53.40%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (36.65%) Project Management
3 48 (25.13%) Information Security
4 35 (18.32%) Risk Management
5 34 (17.80%) Project Delivery
6 29 (15.18%) Cloud Security
7 27 (14.14%) Agile
8 25 (13.09%) PRINCE2
9 24 (12.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 24 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (12.57%) Static Application Security Testing
10 23 (12.04%) Vulnerability Management
11 21 (10.99%) Security Operations
12 20 (10.47%) Business Case
13 17 (8.90%) Incident Response
13 17 (8.90%) Programme Management
14 16 (8.38%) Privileged Access Management
15 15 (7.85%) SIEM
16 14 (7.33%) Decision-Making
17 13 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 34 (17.80%) CISSP
2 30 (15.71%) Security Cleared
3 29 (15.18%) CISM
4 22 (11.52%) SC Cleared
5 20 (10.47%) PMI Certification
6 18 (9.42%) CISA
7 16 (8.38%) Degree
8 12 (6.28%) PMP
9 11 (5.76%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.09%) MBA
12 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.05%) CCIE
13 2 (1.05%) CCIE Security
13 2 (1.05%) CCIE Service Provider
13 2 (1.05%) CCNP
13 2 (1.05%) CCSP
13 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (12.04%) NIST
3 9 (4.71%) GRC
4 8 (4.19%) GDPR
5 5 (2.62%) NCSC
5 5 (2.62%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.62%) QA
6 2 (1.05%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
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%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.14%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.09%) Cisco
4 3 (1.57%) F5
4 3 (1.57%) Splunk
5 2 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.05%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.05%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.05%) IBM
5 2 (1.05%) SAP
5 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.52%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) Meraki
6 1 (0.52%) Okta
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.52%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.52%) Sophos
6 1 (0.52%) Tufin