Security Project Manager Contracts in London

Security Project Manager
England > London

The median Security Project Manager daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 334 364
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +118
Contract jobs requiring a Security Project Manager 19 57 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.32% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.34% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 44 98
10th Percentile £452 £574 £509
25th Percentile £515 £613 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £609 £675 £688
90th Percentile £662 £721 £811
England median daily rate £575 £650 £618
% change year-on-year -11.54% +5.26% +17.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate - - £64.00
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £31.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year - -50.31% -20.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Security Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Project Manager in London

Security Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Project Manager in London

Security Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Project Manager in London

Security Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Project Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Project Manager in London

Security Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London -1 2 £620 -15.07%
Security Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Security Project 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 London region featuring Security Project Manager in the job title.

1 12 (63.16%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Project Management
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
5 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
5 4 (21.05%) Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Information Security
5 4 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (21.05%) SIEM
5 4 (21.05%) Change Control
6 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (15.79%) Dependency Management
6 3 (15.79%) CISM
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
6 3 (15.79%) NIST
6 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.79%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (15.79%) Waterfall
7 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (10.53%) Business Case
7 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Scrum
7 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (10.53%) Confluence
7 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (10.53%) JIRA

Security Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (5.26%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) NAS
1 1 (5.26%) SAN
1 1 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.26%) IoT
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (36.84%) Project Management
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Change Control
4 4 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (21.05%) Information Security
4 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) SIEM
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.79%) Dependency Management
5 3 (15.79%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (15.79%) Waterfall
6 2 (10.53%) Business Case
6 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISM
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) CRISC
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) ISO 14001
3 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) KVM
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy
2 1 (5.26%) Workday