IT Security Project Manager Contracts

IT Security Project Manager
UK

The median IT Security Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 671 823
Rank change year-on-year +120 +152 -130
Contract jobs requiring an IT Security Project Manager 16 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.041% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.043% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 21
10th Percentile £551 £493 £463
25th Percentile £572 £518 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £695 £650
90th Percentile £775 £876 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +12.20% -6.82% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

IT Security Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Project Manager in the UK

IT Security Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Security Project Manager in the UK

IT Security Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Security Project Manager over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Security Project Manager in the UK

IT Security Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Security Project Manager in the UK

IT Security Project Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +89 16 £663 +20.45%
London +84 13 £675 +22.73%
Work from Home +117 5 £750 +16.73%
UK excluding London +36 3 £575 +12.20%
Midlands +21 1 £600 +20.00%
South East +10 1 £575 -34.29%
South West +9 1 £525 +16.67%
West Midlands - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, IT 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 IT Security Project Manager in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Project Management
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 5 (31.25%) NIST
3 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 3 (18.75%) Business Case
5 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (12.50%) SIEM
6 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (12.50%) Degree
6 2 (12.50%) Matrix Management
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma
7 1 (6.25%) PMI
7 1 (6.25%) PMP
7 1 (6.25%) Unix
7 1 (6.25%) Linux
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office

IT 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) PMI
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Project Management
2 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Business Case
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (12.50%) Matrix Management
5 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 2 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) SIEM
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Data Security
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma
6 1 (6.25%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian