Security Project Manager Contracts

Security Project Manager
UK

The median Security Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 493 577
Rank change year-on-year +15 +84 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Security Project Manager 101 203 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.35% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.37% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 150 217
10th Percentile £510 £500 £420
25th Percentile £562 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £618 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +17.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £600
90th Percentile £731 £813 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £62.00 £78.25
Median hourly rate £31.80 £64.00 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% -20.50% -
75th Percentile £32.90 £66.00 £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 - £80.50

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 May 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 13 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 20 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 +28 92 £625 +1.21% 8
London +21 53 £650 - 4
Work from Home +57 42 £638 +2.00% 5
UK excluding London +54 39 £575 - 10
West Midlands +29 10 £600 -20.00%
Midlands +24 10 £600 +4.35%
North of England +33 9 £500 -4.76% 3
South East +15 9 £575 -1.08% 2
South West +14 7 £525 +5.00%
North West - 5 £676 - 1
Yorkshire +17 4 £500 -4.76% 2
Scotland +42 2 - - 1
East of England +4 2 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 60 (59.41%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (53.47%) Project Management
3 40 (39.60%) Finance
4 27 (26.73%) Project Delivery
5 24 (23.76%) Static Application Security Testing
5 24 (23.76%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 21 (20.79%) CISM
6 21 (20.79%) CISSP
7 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
8 17 (16.83%) PRINCE2
9 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (14.85%) CISA
10 15 (14.85%) Business Case
11 14 (13.86%) PMI Certification
11 14 (13.86%) Information Security
12 13 (12.87%) Management Information System
12 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
13 12 (11.88%) Risk Management
13 12 (11.88%) Vulnerability Management
14 11 (10.89%) Degree
14 11 (10.89%) Financial Institution
14 11 (10.89%) Microsoft Office
14 11 (10.89%) Cloud Security
15 10 (9.90%) NIST
15 10 (9.90%) Identity Access Management
15 10 (9.90%) Privileged Access Management
15 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Project
15 10 (9.90%) Agile
16 9 (8.91%) PMI
16 9 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement

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 11 (10.89%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.95%) Azure
2 3 (2.97%) Akamai
2 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (2.97%) Cloudflare
3 2 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.99%) AWS
4 1 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Network Security
2 3 (2.97%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.98%) LAN
3 2 (1.98%) SNA
3 2 (1.98%) WAN
4 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (2.97%) JIRA
General
1 40 (39.60%) Finance
2 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Financial Institution
4 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.92%) Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Military
6 3 (2.97%) Retail
7 2 (1.98%) Automotive
7 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.98%) Law
7 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Legal
8 1 (0.99%) Police
8 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) 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%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
1 2 (1.98%) Unix
1 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (59.41%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (53.47%) Project Management
3 27 (26.73%) Project Delivery
4 24 (23.76%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 24 (23.76%) Static Application Security Testing
5 17 (16.83%) PRINCE2
6 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (14.85%) Business Case
8 14 (13.86%) Information Security
9 12 (11.88%) Risk Management
9 12 (11.88%) Vulnerability Management
10 11 (10.89%) Cloud Security
11 10 (9.90%) Agile
11 10 (9.90%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (9.90%) Privileged Access Management
12 9 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (7.92%) Programme Management
14 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Architecture
14 7 (6.93%) Security Testing
14 7 (6.93%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.97%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) CISM
1 21 (20.79%) CISSP
2 15 (14.85%) CISA
3 14 (13.86%) PMI Certification
4 11 (10.89%) Degree
5 6 (5.94%) PMP
5 6 (5.94%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.95%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.96%) MBA
8 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) NIST
2 6 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.96%) QA
4 2 (1.98%) GRC
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.99%) NIST 800
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 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.95%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.97%) F5
4 1 (0.99%) Cisco
4 1 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.99%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.99%) Okta
4 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.99%) SAP
4 1 (0.99%) Splunk
4 1 (0.99%) Tufin
4 1 (0.99%) Zscaler