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 during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 630 802
Rank change year-on-year +77 +172 -103
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Manager 26 54 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.096% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.10% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 44 33
10th Percentile £537 £470 £461
25th Percentile £572 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £691 £695 £663
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 2 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 2 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 +75 24 £650 +13.04% 8
London +89 15 £675 +17.39% 6
Work from Home +102 12 £750 +20.00% 2
UK excluding London +36 9 £600 +14.29% 1
South West +14 5 £525 +16.67%
South East +9 3 £645 -26.29%
Midlands +16 1 £600 +4.35% 1
West Midlands +8 1 £600 -12.73% 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 14 (53.85%) Project Management
3 8 (30.77%) NIST
4 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (23.08%) Information Security
5 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Business Case
6 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
6 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (15.38%) PMI Certification
7 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
7 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (11.54%) Contract Management
8 3 (11.54%) Security Architecture
8 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
8 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
8 3 (11.54%) Coaching
8 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
8 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
8 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
8 3 (11.54%) CISSP
8 3 (11.54%) PMP
8 3 (11.54%) Publishing
8 3 (11.54%) CISM

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 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Publishing
4 2 (7.69%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) PMI
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Project Management
2 7 (26.92%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Information Security
3 6 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (19.23%) Business Case
5 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) Coaching
6 3 (11.54%) Contract Management
6 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
6 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Security Architecture
6 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
7 2 (7.69%) Contingency Planning
7 2 (7.69%) Regulatory Change
7 2 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) PMI Certification
3 3 (11.54%) CISM
3 3 (11.54%) CISSP
3 3 (11.54%) PMP
4 2 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (7.69%) CEH
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.69%) CISMP
4 2 (7.69%) CSSLP
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) GCIH
5 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) NIST
2 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (11.54%) COBIT
4 2 (7.69%) GDPR
5 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.85%) Rapid7