SC Cleared Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Check Clearance Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Check Clearance Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 319 351 376
Rank change year-on-year +32 +25 +80
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Project Manager 17 48 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.25% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 32 60
10th Percentile £385 £341 £422
25th Percentile £433 £454 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +3.24%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £578
90th Percentile £560 £561 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.38% +4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £60.00
75th Percentile - - £61.88
90th Percentile - - £63.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

SC Cleared Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared Project Manager
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 SC Cleared Project Manager within the UK excluding 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
South East +47 9 £494 -17.71%
North of England +17 4 £583 +22.63% 1
North West +16 4 £583 +22.63%
South West +20 2 £245 -47.31%
East of England +30 1 £525 +23.53%
Midlands +20 1 - -
West Midlands +13 1 - -
SC Cleared Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SC Cleared 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 UK excluding London region featuring SC Cleared Project Manager in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) Project Management
3 8 (47.06%) PRINCE2
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (23.53%) Degree
4 4 (23.53%) Budget Management
5 3 (17.65%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 3 (17.65%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) Agile Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) PMP
5 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
6 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
6 2 (11.76%) Automotive
6 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) Military
6 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Change Management
6 2 (11.76%) ITSM
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.76%) PMI
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) ISEB

SC Cleared Project Manager 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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MPLS
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.76%) Automotive
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Billing
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) PMI
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Project Management
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) PRINCE2
3 4 (23.53%) Budget Management
4 3 (17.65%) Agile Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 3 (17.65%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) ITSM
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Project Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.88%) Database Migration
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
3 3 (17.65%) PMP
4 2 (11.76%) APMP
4 2 (11.76%) ISEB
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) PMBOK
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.88%) Snow