Security Project Manager Contracts

Security Project Manager
UK

The median Security Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 516 557
Rank change year-on-year +33 +41 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Security Project Manager 101 182 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.35% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 132 225
10th Percentile £500 £500 £425
25th Percentile £528 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £618 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +17.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £600
90th Percentile £734 £812 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% - -
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 - -

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Security Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Project Manager in the UK

Security Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Project Manager in the UK

Security Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Project Manager over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Project Manager in the UK

Security Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Project Manager in the UK

Security Project Manager
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 15 June 2024. 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 +14 91 £625 - 10
London +6 46 £650 - 4
UK excluding London +40 45 £575 - 11
Work from Home +64 40 £625 - 2
South East +16 14 £575 +5.75% 3
Midlands +24 11 £600 -7.69% 1
West Midlands +24 9 £600 -7.69% 1
North of England +21 9 £500 -9.20% 1
South West +6 7 £525 +5.00%
North West - 5 £676 -
Yorkshire +13 4 £500 -9.20%
Scotland +50 2 - -
East Midlands +8 2 - -
East of England -1 2 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 2024, 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 featuring Security Project Manager in the job title.

1 65 (64.36%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (50.50%) Project Management
3 38 (37.62%) Finance
4 27 (26.73%) Project Delivery
5 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
5 22 (21.78%) CISM
5 22 (21.78%) CISSP
6 20 (19.80%) Static Application Security Testing
6 20 (19.80%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (15.84%) PRINCE2
8 16 (15.84%) CISA
9 15 (14.85%) Microsoft
9 15 (14.85%) Business Case
10 14 (13.86%) PMI Certification
10 14 (13.86%) Information Security
10 14 (13.86%) Management Information System
11 12 (11.88%) Risk Management
11 12 (11.88%) Agile
11 12 (11.88%) Degree
11 12 (11.88%) NIST
12 11 (10.89%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (10.89%) Cloud Security
12 11 (10.89%) Financial Institution
13 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Project
13 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Office
13 10 (9.90%) Vulnerability Management
13 10 (9.90%) Privileged Access Management
14 9 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (8.91%) PMI

Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.92%) Azure
2 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.97%) Akamai
3 3 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (2.97%) Cloudflare
4 1 (0.99%) AWS
4 1 (0.99%) GitHub
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Network Security
2 3 (2.97%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.98%) LAN
3 2 (1.98%) WAN
4 1 (0.99%) Firewall
4 1 (0.99%) SNA
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) JIRA
General
1 38 (37.62%) Finance
2 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Financial Institution
4 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.94%) Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.95%) Retail
7 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Automotive
8 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.98%) Law
8 2 (1.98%) Military
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Legal
9 1 (0.99%) Police
9 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.86%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.91%) PMI
3 3 (2.97%) CCTV
3 3 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.97%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.98%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Windows
2 2 (1.98%) Linux
2 2 (1.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (64.36%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (50.50%) Project Management
3 27 (26.73%) Project Delivery
4 20 (19.80%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 20 (19.80%) Static Application Security Testing
5 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (15.84%) PRINCE2
7 15 (14.85%) Business Case
8 14 (13.86%) Information Security
9 12 (11.88%) Agile
9 12 (11.88%) Risk Management
10 11 (10.89%) Cloud Security
10 11 (10.89%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (9.90%) Privileged Access Management
11 10 (9.90%) Vulnerability Management
12 9 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (7.92%) Waterfall
14 7 (6.93%) Application Security
14 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Architecture
14 7 (6.93%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.97%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (21.78%) CISM
1 22 (21.78%) CISSP
2 16 (15.84%) CISA
3 14 (13.86%) PMI Certification
4 12 (11.88%) Degree
5 6 (5.94%) PMP
6 5 (4.95%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.96%) MBA
8 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.98%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.88%) NIST
2 6 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.96%) QA
4 2 (1.98%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.99%) GRC
5 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.99%) PMO
5 1 (0.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) CASB
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.95%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.97%) CyberArk
3 3 (2.97%) F5
4 2 (1.98%) Okta
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco
5 1 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.99%) SAP
5 1 (0.99%) Splunk
5 1 (0.99%) Tufin
5 1 (0.99%) Zscaler