SC Cleared Project Manager Contracts

Security Check Clearance Project Manager
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 505 559
Rank change year-on-year +21 +54 +170
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Project Manager 35 95 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 76 109
10th Percentile £407 £400 £444
25th Percentile £453 £413 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -10.38% +4.23%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £600
90th Percentile £646 £613 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +106.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

SC Cleared Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK

SC Cleared Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK

SC Cleared Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Project Manager over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK

SC Cleared Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared Project Manager in the UK

SC Cleared Project Manager
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +13 32 £506 +6.58% 1
UK excluding London +23 17 £500 +5.26%
London +17 15 £523 +4.60% 1
Work from Home +25 14 £488 -2.50%
South East +44 9 £494 -17.71%
North of England +26 4 £583 +22.63%
North West +10 4 £583 +22.63%
South West +19 2 £245 -47.31%
East of England +33 1 £525 +23.53%
Midlands +22 1 - -
West Midlands +15 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring SC Cleared Project Manager in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 35 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) Agile
3 15 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 14 (40.00%) Project Management
5 10 (28.57%) Finance
6 9 (25.71%) Project Delivery
7 7 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (17.14%) Billing
9 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
9 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (14.29%) SFIA
10 4 (11.43%) Budget Management
10 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
10 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
10 4 (11.43%) Migration
10 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (11.43%) Project Planning
10 4 (11.43%) Degree
10 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
11 3 (8.57%) AWS
11 3 (8.57%) Windows
11 3 (8.57%) PMP
11 3 (8.57%) PMI Certification
11 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (8.57%) Agile Project Management
11 3 (8.57%) Customer-Centricity
11 3 (8.57%) Customer-Centric Approach

SC Cleared Project 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:

Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) MPLS
1 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) EDRMS
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Billing
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.71%) Automotive
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Military
4 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.71%) PMI
2 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Agile
2 15 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 14 (40.00%) Project Management
4 9 (25.71%) Project Delivery
5 7 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 5 (14.29%) SFIA
6 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.43%) Budget Management
7 4 (11.43%) Migration
7 4 (11.43%) Project Planning
8 3 (8.57%) Agile Project Management
8 3 (8.57%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 3 (8.57%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.71%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 2 (5.71%) Business Case
9 2 (5.71%) Remediation Plan
Qualifications
1 35 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 35 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) PMI Certification
3 3 (8.57%) PMP
4 2 (5.71%) APMP
4 2 (5.71%) ISEB
4 2 (5.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) PMBOK
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
2 1 (2.86%) Snow
2 1 (2.86%) VMware