Project Manager - Cybersecurity Contracts

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
UK

The median Project Manager - Cybersecurity daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 596 749
Rank change year-on-year +78 +153 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager - Cybersecurity 52 94 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 69 86
10th Percentile £500 £498 £419
25th Percentile £513 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £588
90th Percentile £670 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £520
% change year-on-year -2.22% +8.17% +6.67%
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

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 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager - Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the UK

Project Manager - Cybersecurity
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 Project Manager - Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +61 47 £613 +2.08% 1
UK excluding London +62 25 £550 -2.22% 1
London +62 22 £650 -
Work from Home +105 18 £625 +4.17% 1
Midlands +39 6 £625 -3.85%
West Midlands +22 6 £625 -3.85%
South West +18 6 £525 +16.67%
South East +17 5 £575 +10.31%
North of England +28 4 £500 -4.76%
Yorkshire +17 3 £500 -4.76%
East of England +5 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
North West - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Project Manager - Cybersecurity 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 Project Manager - Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (53.85%) Project Management
3 20 (38.46%) Finance
4 19 (36.54%) Project Delivery
5 13 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 13 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
7 11 (21.15%) CISSP
8 10 (19.23%) Management Information System
8 10 (19.23%) CISA
8 10 (19.23%) CISM
8 10 (19.23%) Financial Institution
9 9 (17.31%) PRINCE2
9 9 (17.31%) Network Security
9 9 (17.31%) Privileged Access Management
10 8 (15.38%) Business Case
11 7 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
11 7 (13.46%) PMI Certification
12 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
12 6 (11.54%) Risk Management
12 6 (11.54%) Migration
12 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (11.54%) Security Testing
12 6 (11.54%) Project Governance
13 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (9.62%) Azure
13 5 (9.62%) Contingency Planning
13 5 (9.62%) Atlassian

Project Manager - Cybersecurity 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 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) Akamai
2 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.77%) Cloudflare
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.92%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) Network Security
2 2 (3.85%) LAN
2 2 (3.85%) WAN
3 1 (1.92%) Firewall
3 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 20 (38.46%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Financial Institution
4 3 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Retail
5 2 (3.85%) Automotive
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) International Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.77%) PMI
3 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (53.85%) Project Management
3 19 (36.54%) Project Delivery
4 13 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 13 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 9 (17.31%) PRINCE2
5 9 (17.31%) Privileged Access Management
6 8 (15.38%) Business Case
7 7 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (11.54%) Migration
8 6 (11.54%) Project Governance
8 6 (11.54%) Risk Management
8 6 (11.54%) Security Testing
9 5 (9.62%) Contingency Planning
9 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.62%) ITIL
10 4 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) CISSP
2 10 (19.23%) CISA
2 10 (19.23%) CISM
3 7 (13.46%) PMI Certification
4 5 (9.62%) PMP
5 4 (7.69%) Degree
6 3 (5.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) NIST
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.77%) F5
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco
4 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) Tufin
4 1 (1.92%) Zscaler