Project Manager - Cybersecurity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager - Cybersecurity daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 370 416
Rank change year-on-year +55 +46 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager - Cybersecurity 15 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.13% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 17
10th Percentile £482 £496 £500
25th Percentile £513 £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +9.22%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £625
90th Percentile £660 £665 £635
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £31.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year - -50.31% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,749 18,731 21,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.50% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,490 11,452 15,051
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 826 2,272 1,106
10th Percentile £13.93 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.74 £18.04
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.56 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
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 Project Manager - Cybersecurity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
North of England +19 5 £550 +10.00%
Scotland +10 4 £550 - 2
South East +45 3 £500 -13.04% 1
Yorkshire +9 3 £550 +10.00%
North West +13 2 £553 +16.32%
South West +29 1 £750 +42.86%
East of England +25 1 £700 -
Midlands +8 1 £500 -20.00%
West Midlands +7 1 £500 -20.00%
Project Manager - Cybersecurity
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (93.33%) Project Management
3 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 8 (53.33%) PMI Certification
4 7 (46.67%) PRINCE2
4 7 (46.67%) Project Planning
4 7 (46.67%) Degree
4 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (46.67%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (40.00%) Contingency Planning
5 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (40.00%) PRINCE
5 6 (40.00%) PMI
5 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (26.67%) Matrix Organization
6 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
7 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Change Management
7 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (13.33%) Project Governance
8 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
8 2 (13.33%) JIRA
8 2 (13.33%) CMDB
8 2 (13.33%) CISSP

Project Manager - Cybersecurity 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:

Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Local Government
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (40.00%) PMI
2 2 (13.33%) CMDB
2 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (93.33%) Project Management
3 7 (46.67%) PRINCE2
3 7 (46.67%) Project Planning
3 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (40.00%) Contingency Planning
4 6 (40.00%) PRINCE
4 6 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (26.67%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) PMI Certification
2 7 (46.67%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) PMP
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft