SC Cleared Project Manager Contracts

Security Check Clearance Project Manager
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 498 551
Rank change year-on-year +21 +53 +157
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Project Manager 41 85 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 71 102
10th Percentile £390 £400 £422
25th Percentile £431 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £528
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.95% +3.74%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £600
90th Percentile £625 £613 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £525
% change year-on-year +1.06% -10.48% +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% +15.74%
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 26,841 39,670 55,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.79% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,462 25,788 38,442
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,665 1,534
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.26 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%

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 14 May 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 14 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
England +25 36 £494 +3.95% 8
Work from Home +24 20 £488 -2.50% 1
UK excluding London +29 19 £475 +1.06% 7
London +37 17 £500 - 3
South East +52 9 £494 -31.90% 1
North of England +20 4 £583 +22.63% 1
North West +13 4 £583 +22.63%
East of England +29 3 £350 -17.65% 2
South West +19 2 £245 -47.31% 1
Midlands +11 1 - - 1
West Midlands +11 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring SC Cleared Project Manager in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 41 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 22 (53.66%) Agile
3 20 (48.78%) PRINCE2
4 15 (36.59%) Project Management
5 14 (34.15%) Finance
5 14 (34.15%) Project Delivery
6 11 (26.83%) Billing
7 10 (24.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (19.51%) SFIA
9 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (14.63%) Migration
9 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
10 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
10 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
10 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
11 4 (9.76%) Budget Management
11 4 (9.76%) AWS
11 4 (9.76%) Project Planning
11 4 (9.76%) Degree
11 4 (9.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
11 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (7.32%) PMP
12 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
12 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
12 3 (7.32%) Windows
12 3 (7.32%) Azure
12 3 (7.32%) Project Governance

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 (9.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.76%) AWS
2 3 (7.32%) Azure
3 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) MPLS
1 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) EDRMS
1 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Billing
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.88%) Automotive
5 2 (4.88%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.88%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Law
6 1 (2.44%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Police
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.88%) PMI
1 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Agile
2 20 (48.78%) PRINCE2
3 15 (36.59%) Project Management
4 14 (34.15%) Project Delivery
5 10 (24.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 8 (19.51%) SFIA
7 6 (14.63%) Migration
7 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
8 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
9 4 (9.76%) Budget Management
9 4 (9.76%) Project Planning
10 3 (7.32%) Agile Project Management
10 3 (7.32%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 3 (7.32%) Customer-Centricity
10 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.32%) Project Governance
11 2 (4.88%) Business Case
11 2 (4.88%) Remediation Plan
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.32%) PMP
4 2 (4.88%) APMP
4 2 (4.88%) ISEB
5 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) PMBOK
2 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.44%) Snow
3 1 (2.44%) VMware