Security Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 328 323
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 74 114 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.50% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 71 163
10th Percentile £459 £488 £458
25th Percentile £513 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year - +2.68% +7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £625 £618 £560
% change year-on-year +1.21% +10.27% +9.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £30.75 -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £31.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -
75th Percentile £32.90 £32.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £47.75 -
% change year-on-year -33.40% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West +9 21 £525 -25.96% 7
South East -8 16 £613 +8.89% 20
Midlands +14 12 £600 +6.67% 18
West Midlands +9 12 £600 +4.35% 5
North of England +25 11 £500 -9.09% 12
East of England +1 8 £376 -36.76% 11
Scotland +42 6 £573 +4.09% 4
North West +10 6 £676 +20.18% 5
Yorkshire +13 5 £500 -4.76% 5
Security Manager
UK

Security Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 44 (59.46%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (29.73%) Project Management
3 21 (28.38%) Risk Management
4 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
5 16 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
6 15 (20.27%) Finance
6 15 (20.27%) Agile
7 13 (17.57%) Information Security
7 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
7 13 (17.57%) Cloud Security
8 12 (16.22%) PRINCE2
8 12 (16.22%) Business Case
9 11 (14.86%) CISSP
10 10 (13.51%) PMI Certification
10 10 (13.51%) CISM
10 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.16%) Azure
11 9 (12.16%) Security Architecture
11 9 (12.16%) DV Cleared
11 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
11 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
12 8 (10.81%) Project Delivery
12 8 (10.81%) Decision-Making
12 8 (10.81%) Privileged Access Management
13 7 (9.46%) Contingency Planning
13 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (9.46%) Degree
13 7 (9.46%) Programme Management
13 7 (9.46%) Manufacturing

Security Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.16%) Azure
2 5 (6.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (5.41%) AWS
4 3 (4.05%) Akamai
4 3 (4.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.05%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Network Security
2 4 (5.41%) Firewall
3 3 (4.05%) Extranet
4 2 (2.70%) Intranet
4 2 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.70%) LAN
4 2 (2.70%) VPN
4 2 (2.70%) WAN
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.35%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.35%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Finance
3 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.76%) Publishing
6 4 (5.41%) Military
6 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Retail
7 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.05%) Law
7 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Automotive
8 2 (2.70%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.35%) Police
9 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) JWT
1 1 (1.35%) OLE
1 1 (1.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Security Posture
2 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.41%) PMI
3 3 (4.05%) CCTV
4 2 (2.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.35%) Life Science
5 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.35%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (59.46%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (29.73%) Project Management
3 21 (28.38%) Risk Management
4 16 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (20.27%) Agile
6 13 (17.57%) Cloud Security
6 13 (17.57%) Information Security
7 12 (16.22%) Business Case
7 12 (16.22%) PRINCE2
8 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.16%) Security Architecture
10 8 (10.81%) Decision-Making
10 8 (10.81%) Privileged Access Management
10 8 (10.81%) Project Delivery
11 7 (9.46%) Contingency Planning
11 7 (9.46%) Incident Response
11 7 (9.46%) Programme Management
12 6 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (8.11%) Information Assurance
12 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) CISSP
3 10 (13.51%) CISM
3 10 (13.51%) PMI Certification
4 9 (12.16%) DV Cleared
4 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
5 7 (9.46%) Degree
6 6 (8.11%) PMP
7 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
8 4 (5.41%) CISA
8 4 (5.41%) MBA
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.35%) CRISC
11 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.76%) NIST
3 2 (2.70%) GDPR
3 2 (2.70%) GRC
3 2 (2.70%) NCSC
3 2 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) COBIT
4 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.35%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.35%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Kibana
1 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.76%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.05%) Cisco
3 3 (4.05%) F5
4 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.35%) Google
5 1 (1.35%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) Zscaler