Project Management Contracts

Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,285 4,273 6,970
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.67% 7.59% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.95% 8.46% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,914 4,808
10th Percentile £310 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £600
90th Percentile £712 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 140 209
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.66 £30.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +49.53% +21.46%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.30 £80.00 £63.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.20% +78.18% +4.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +3 2,815 £525 -0.94% 3,174
UK excluding London +1 1,746 £500 - 2,311
London +3 1,226 £550 -4.35% 967
Work from Home +3 1,099 £515 +0.49% 1,369
South East -9 420 £475 -5.00% 521
North of England -1 347 £500 - 564
South West +6 322 £525 -4.55% 318
Midlands -3 214 £500 +4.17% 475
East of England +6 198 £525 +0.38% 253
North West -2 194 £500 - 333
Scotland +1 188 £450 -2.70% 187
West Midlands +1 165 £511 +7.63% 294
Yorkshire +7 123 £500 -5.21% 157
Wales +14 50 £528 -4.05% 55
East Midlands -3 48 £481 -3.75% 180
North East +12 32 £600 +50.00% 80
Northern Ireland -6 12 £435 -3.33% 25
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1

Project Management
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
1 175 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 100 (3.04%) Confluence
3 37 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.10%) CMS
5 13 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.33%) Drupal
6 11 (0.33%) SAS
7 7 (0.21%) Documentum
8 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.12%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) CICS
9 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.091%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.061%) nginx
11 2 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 215 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 213 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 153 (4.66%) Microsoft Project
4 135 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 42 (1.28%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.43%) Acrobat
9 11 (0.33%) Trello
10 8 (0.24%) Simulink
11 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.21%) InDesign
12 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
12 6 (0.18%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
14 3 (0.091%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.061%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 75 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.58%) Primavera
3 18 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 15 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
6 10 (0.30%) Workfront
7 9 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.27%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.18%) iTrent
10 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
10 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 273 (8.31%) Azure
2 122 (3.71%) AWS
3 119 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (3.11%) Power Platform
5 90 (2.74%) SaaS
6 75 (2.28%) GitHub
7 51 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (1.28%) OCI
10 39 (1.19%) GCP
10 39 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
11 31 (0.94%) PaaS
12 25 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (0.76%) Slack
13 23 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 22 (0.67%) Google Workspace
15 20 (0.61%) WhatsApp
16 17 (0.52%) IaaS
16 17 (0.52%) OneDrive
17 16 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.89%) Firewall
2 55 (1.67%) VPN
3 54 (1.64%) WAN
4 45 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
5 44 (1.34%) LAN
6 40 (1.22%) DNS
7 30 (0.91%) Intranet
8 28 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
9 26 (0.79%) DHCP
10 25 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 21 (0.64%) Network Security
11 21 (0.64%) SAN
12 19 (0.58%) Internet
13 18 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
13 18 (0.55%) Wireless
14 15 (0.46%) 4G
15 13 (0.40%) 3GPP
16 12 (0.37%) HTTP
16 12 (0.37%) LTE
16 12 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (2.77%) Power BI
2 42 (1.28%) SQL Server
3 30 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (0.76%) MySQL
4 25 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 19 (0.58%) Tableau
6 18 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (0.49%) Metadata
8 13 (0.40%) GIS
9 11 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 10 (0.30%) Big Data
10 10 (0.30%) Data Mining
10 10 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.27%) EDMS
11 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
14 6 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 282 (8.58%) JIRA
2 37 (1.13%) Git
3 34 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.91%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.52%) Postman
7 16 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 12 (0.37%) Subversion
9 11 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.27%) Travis CI
12 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.18%) AppScan
13 6 (0.18%) Storybook
13 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
15 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
General
1 1,374 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 950 (28.92%) Finance
3 499 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 319 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 209 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
6 184 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
7 177 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
8 169 (5.14%) Manufacturing
8 169 (5.14%) Marketing
9 155 (4.72%) Banking
10 153 (4.66%) Legal
11 135 (4.11%) Telecoms
12 97 (2.95%) Retail
13 84 (2.56%) Local Government
14 80 (2.44%) Electronics
15 66 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 65 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 58 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 47 (1.43%) Law
19 38 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,181 (35.95%) Project Manager
2 307 (9.35%) Analyst
3 288 (8.77%) Senior
4 260 (7.91%) Lead
5 182 (5.54%) Architect
6 175 (5.33%) Senior Manager
7 165 (5.02%) IT Manager
8 161 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 133 (4.05%) Consultant
10 130 (3.96%) IT Project Manager
11 109 (3.32%) Senior Project Manager
12 106 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
13 91 (2.77%) Technical Manager
14 88 (2.68%) Developer
15 81 (2.47%) Programme Manager
16 69 (2.10%) Security Manager
17 66 (2.01%) Technical Project Manager
18 61 (1.86%) Infrastructure Manager
19 57 (1.74%) Change Manager
20 54 (1.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.88%) YAML
2 27 (0.82%) XML
3 26 (0.79%) React
4 23 (0.70%) .NET
5 22 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (0.52%) Vue
7 14 (0.43%) Laravel
7 14 (0.43%) Spring
8 13 (0.40%) AngularJS
9 12 (0.37%) EDI
9 12 (0.37%) JSON
10 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.30%) ADO
11 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
11 10 (0.30%) CSS
12 8 (0.24%) HTML
12 8 (0.24%) Playwright
12 8 (0.24%) Web Services
13 7 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 177 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 89 (2.71%) Product Ownership
3 83 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 72 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 60 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (1.55%) PMI
7 47 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (1.16%) NHS
9 35 (1.07%) Analogue Electronics
10 33 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 32 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (0.97%) Life Science
12 29 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.82%) FMCG
14 24 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.58%) Social Media
17 17 (0.52%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 102 (3.11%) Windows
2 89 (2.71%) Linux
3 43 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 31 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.73%) zOS
6 19 (0.58%) Android
6 19 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.46%) Windows XP
9 14 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.40%) Unix
11 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.12%) VMS
12 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.061%) AIX
13 2 (0.061%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (31.54%) Agile
2 740 (22.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 665 (20.24%) Project Delivery
4 642 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
5 527 (16.04%) PRINCE2
6 411 (12.51%) Change Management
7 347 (10.56%) Risk Management
8 280 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 270 (8.22%) Decision-Making
10 263 (8.01%) Migration
11 250 (7.61%) Scrum
12 236 (7.18%) Waterfall
13 206 (6.27%) Programme Management
14 204 (6.21%) Project Planning
15 200 (6.09%) Business Case
16 191 (5.81%) DevOps
17 176 (5.36%) Roadmaps
18 175 (5.33%) ITIL
19 168 (5.11%) Analytics
20 167 (5.08%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 127 (3.87%) SQL
2 109 (3.32%) Python
3 64 (1.95%) PowerShell
4 47 (1.43%) Java
5 43 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 27 (0.82%) C
7 24 (0.73%) Bash
8 21 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 20 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.58%) JCL
11 15 (0.46%) C#
11 15 (0.46%) REXX
12 14 (0.43%) PHP
13 10 (0.30%) Scala
14 9 (0.27%) R
15 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.21%) XPath
16 7 (0.21%) XQuery
17 6 (0.18%) C++
17 6 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 536 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 535 (16.29%) Degree
3 349 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 219 (6.67%) PMP
5 211 (6.42%) PMI Certification
6 160 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 77 (2.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 67 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.67%) APMP
10 54 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 44 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 40 (1.22%) CISSP
13 37 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 34 (1.04%) CCNA
15 31 (0.94%) CCNP
15 31 (0.94%) CISM
16 21 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (10.26%) PMO
2 208 (6.33%) QA
3 50 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.31%) GDPR
6 29 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.79%) SLA
8 25 (0.76%) JSP 440
9 17 (0.52%) NIST
10 15 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
11 12 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.33%) GxP
12 11 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.30%) NCSC
13 10 (0.30%) P3O
14 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.24%) Basel III
16 7 (0.21%) IFRS
16 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 60 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.31%) Docker
3 31 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.61%) NFS
5 19 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
6 18 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.12%) ACF2
10 4 (0.12%) RACF
10 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.12%) vSphere
11 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.061%) HDFS
12 2 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.061%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.061%) XenApp
12 2 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (1.74%) Ansible
2 45 (1.37%) Terraform
3 43 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 25 (0.76%) SCCM
6 23 (0.70%) Grafana
7 21 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.55%) Puppet
8 18 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.52%) SCOM
10 15 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.46%) WSUS
11 14 (0.43%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.37%) Graylog
13 10 (0.30%) Kibana
13 10 (0.30%) logstash
14 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 518 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 279 (8.49%) SAP
3 127 (3.87%) Oracle
4 73 (2.22%) Cisco
5 61 (1.86%) Adobe
6 55 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 47 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.40%) Google
9 41 (1.25%) VMware
10 40 (1.22%) Dell
11 39 (1.19%) IBM
12 36 (1.10%) Juniper
13 33 (1.00%) Splunk
14 25 (0.76%) Ariba
15 24 (0.73%) Broadcom
16 23 (0.70%) CA
17 21 (0.64%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.61%) Palo Alto
19 19 (0.58%) Brocade
20 18 (0.55%) Veeam