Project Manager - Cybersecurity Contracts

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
UK

The median Project Manager - Cybersecurity daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 619 741
Rank change year-on-year +71 +122 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager - Cybersecurity 52 94 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 66 86
10th Percentile £500 £500 £413
25th Percentile £513 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £512
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +12.36% +7.74%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £588
90th Percentile £670 £688 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% - -
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 - -

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 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Manager - Cybersecurity.

Daily rate trend for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager - Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
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 Project Manager - Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +72 47 £613 +2.08% 3
UK excluding London +74 26 £575 +4.55% 3
London +72 21 £650 -
Work from Home +100 18 £625 +7.53% 2
Midlands +33 7 £613 +2.08%
West Midlands +32 6 £625 +4.17%
South West +17 6 £525 +16.67%
South East +19 5 £575 +9.52% 1
North of England +29 4 £500 -4.76% 1
Yorkshire +22 3 £500 -4.76%
East of England +8 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 £475 - 1

Project Manager - Cybersecurity Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Project Manager - Cybersecurity 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 Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (51.92%) Project Management
3 19 (36.54%) Finance
4 18 (34.62%) Project Delivery
5 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 12 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
6 12 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 10 (19.23%) CISSP
8 9 (17.31%) PRINCE2
8 9 (17.31%) Management Information System
8 9 (17.31%) CISA
8 9 (17.31%) CISM
8 9 (17.31%) Financial Institution
8 9 (17.31%) Network Security
8 9 (17.31%) Privileged Access Management
9 8 (15.38%) Business Case
9 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (13.46%) Migration
10 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
10 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
10 7 (13.46%) PMI Certification
10 7 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (11.54%) Security Testing
11 6 (11.54%) Project Governance
11 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
11 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
12 5 (9.62%) Atlassian
12 5 (9.62%) ITIL
12 5 (9.62%) PMP
12 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement

Project Manager - Cybersecurity 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 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) Akamai
2 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.77%) Cloudflare
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.92%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) Network Security
2 2 (3.85%) LAN
2 2 (3.85%) WAN
3 1 (1.92%) Firewall
3 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 19 (36.54%) Finance
2 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Financial Institution
4 3 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Retail
5 2 (3.85%) Automotive
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) International Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.77%) PMI
3 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (51.92%) Project Management
3 18 (34.62%) Project Delivery
4 12 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 12 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
5 9 (17.31%) PRINCE2
5 9 (17.31%) Privileged Access Management
6 8 (15.38%) Business Case
6 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (13.46%) Migration
7 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
8 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (11.54%) Project Governance
8 6 (11.54%) Security Testing
9 5 (9.62%) Contingency Planning
9 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.62%) ITIL
10 4 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) CISSP
2 9 (17.31%) CISA
2 9 (17.31%) CISM
3 7 (13.46%) PMI Certification
4 5 (9.62%) PMP
5 4 (7.69%) Degree
6 3 (5.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) NIST
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.77%) F5
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco
4 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) Tufin
4 1 (1.92%) Zscaler