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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 359 421
Rank change year-on-year -47 +62 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 198 372 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.67% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.71% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 262 397
10th Percentile £429 £500 £435
25th Percentile £513 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £609 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +10.68% +6.12%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £555
% change year-on-year - +3.60% +6.73%
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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 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 14 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 9 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 -25 171 £625 +1.01% 98
London -22 95 £650 +4.00% 41
Work from Home +37 80 £550 -12.00% 37
UK excluding London +10 79 £575 - 63
South West +11 20 £525 -25.96% 1
South East -2 18 £635 +14.16% 16
Midlands +14 13 £600 +4.35% 16
West Midlands +6 12 £600 +4.35% 7
North of England +22 11 £500 -9.09% 16
East of England -1 11 £400 -33.33% 10
Scotland +37 6 £573 +4.09% 3
North West +13 6 £676 +20.18% 10
Yorkshire +9 5 £500 -9.09% 5
East Midlands +11 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 112 (56.57%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (33.84%) Project Management
3 62 (31.31%) Finance
4 49 (24.75%) Information Security
5 41 (20.71%) Social Skills
6 38 (19.19%) CISSP
7 36 (18.18%) Risk Management
8 34 (17.17%) Project Delivery
9 33 (16.67%) Security Cleared
10 32 (16.16%) CISM
11 30 (15.15%) Cloud Security
12 29 (14.65%) NIST
12 29 (14.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 28 (14.14%) Agile
14 26 (13.13%) Microsoft
15 25 (12.63%) PRINCE2
15 25 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (12.63%) SC Cleared
16 21 (10.61%) Management Information System
16 21 (10.61%) PMI Certification
17 20 (10.10%) Vulnerability Management
17 20 (10.10%) Business Case
17 20 (10.10%) Static Application Security Testing
17 20 (10.10%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
17 20 (10.10%) Security Operations
18 19 (9.60%) Privileged Access Management
19 17 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
19 17 (8.59%) CISA
20 16 (8.08%) Azure
20 16 (8.08%) Degree

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 (2.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.08%) Azure
2 9 (4.55%) AWS
3 7 (3.54%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.52%) Akamai
5 3 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (1.52%) Cloudflare
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.52%) Mimecast
5 3 (1.52%) SaaS
6 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.01%) IaaS
6 2 (1.01%) PaaS
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.51%) GCP
7 1 (0.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.55%) Firewall
2 7 (3.54%) Network Security
3 6 (3.03%) Extranet
4 5 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.01%) Intranet
5 2 (1.01%) LAN
5 2 (1.01%) SNA
5 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 2 (1.01%) WAN
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
1 1 (0.51%) DB2
1 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.54%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 62 (31.31%) Finance
2 41 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.58%) Banking
5 12 (6.06%) Financial Institution
5 12 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.05%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.55%) Law
8 8 (4.04%) Military
9 7 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.54%) Legal
9 7 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.53%) Publishing
10 5 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.02%) Retail
12 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.52%) Marketing
13 2 (1.01%) Automotive
13 2 (1.01%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) JWT
1 1 (0.51%) Middleware
1 1 (0.51%) OLE
1 1 (0.51%) OpenID
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.57%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.55%) PMI
4 6 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.52%) CCTV
6 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.52%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.01%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.51%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.53%) Linux
1 5 (2.53%) Windows
2 3 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.57%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (33.84%) Project Management
3 49 (24.75%) Information Security
4 36 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 34 (17.17%) Project Delivery
6 30 (15.15%) Cloud Security
7 28 (14.14%) Agile
8 25 (12.63%) PRINCE2
8 25 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (10.10%) Business Case
9 20 (10.10%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 20 (10.10%) Security Operations
9 20 (10.10%) Static Application Security Testing
9 20 (10.10%) Vulnerability Management
10 19 (9.60%) Privileged Access Management
11 15 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.58%) Incident Response
11 15 (7.58%) Programme Management
11 15 (7.58%) SIEM
12 14 (7.07%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.02%) Java
2 1 (0.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (19.19%) CISSP
2 33 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 32 (16.16%) CISM
4 25 (12.63%) SC Cleared
5 21 (10.61%) PMI Certification
6 17 (8.59%) CISA
7 16 (8.08%) Degree
8 13 (6.57%) PMP
9 11 (5.56%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.02%) MBA
12 3 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.52%) CISMP
12 3 (1.52%) GCIH
13 2 (1.01%) CEH
13 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.01%) CSSLP
13 2 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 29 (14.65%) NIST
2 8 (4.04%) GRC
3 7 (3.54%) GDPR
4 5 (2.53%) NCSC
4 5 (2.53%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.53%) QA
5 3 (1.52%) COBIT
6 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.01%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (2.02%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.51%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) CASB
1 1 (0.51%) Kibana
1 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.02%) Cisco
3 4 (2.02%) CyberArk
4 3 (1.52%) F5
4 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
4 3 (1.52%) Splunk
5 2 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.01%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.01%) IBM
5 2 (1.01%) Okta
5 2 (1.01%) SAP
5 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.51%) Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) Google
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.51%) Tufin
6 1 (0.51%) VMware