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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 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 3,293 4,256 6,933
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.67% 7.58% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 8.45% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 2,906 4,781
10th Percentile £306 £331 £331
25th Percentile £413 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £707 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 140 208
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.66 £30.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.64
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +50.15% +20.96%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.28 £80.00 £63.60
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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
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 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 2,820 £525 -0.94% 3,083
UK excluding London +1 1,760 £500 - 2,255
London +3 1,219 £550 -4.35% 929
Work from Home +3 1,103 £517 +0.39% 1,313
South East -9 425 £475 -5.00% 507
North of England +1 351 £500 - 554
South West +4 323 £525 -4.55% 309
Midlands -3 215 £500 +4.17% 462
East of England +6 198 £525 +3.55% 249
North West -3 198 £500 - 327
Scotland -2 187 £450 -2.70% 183
West Midlands +1 164 £510 +7.37% 285
Yorkshire +10 123 £500 -4.76% 157
Wales +18 50 £528 -4.05% 54
East Midlands -7 50 £488 -2.50% 176
North East +8 32 £600 +50.00% 76
Northern Ireland -4 16 £266 -40.83% 22
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 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 99 (3.01%) Confluence
3 37 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.09%) CMS
5 13 (0.39%) 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
10 3 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.061%) nginx
11 2 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 214 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 213 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 152 (4.62%) Microsoft Project
4 133 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
6 41 (1.25%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.43%) Acrobat
9 12 (0.36%) 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
4 15 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
5 10 (0.30%) Workfront
6 9 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.27%) SAP HCM
7 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.24%) SAP HR
7 8 (0.24%) SAP SD
7 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.18%) iTrent
9 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
9 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 274 (8.32%) Azure
2 124 (3.77%) AWS
3 120 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (2.98%) Power Platform
5 90 (2.73%) SaaS
6 75 (2.28%) GitHub
7 51 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 43 (1.31%) OCI
10 40 (1.21%) GCP
11 39 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
12 32 (0.97%) PaaS
13 25 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (0.76%) Slack
14 24 (0.73%) PowerApps
15 22 (0.67%) Google Workspace
16 20 (0.61%) WhatsApp
17 17 (0.52%) IaaS
17 17 (0.52%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.85%) Firewall
2 54 (1.64%) VPN
2 54 (1.64%) WAN
3 45 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
4 43 (1.31%) LAN
5 41 (1.25%) DNS
6 29 (0.88%) Intranet
7 28 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
8 27 (0.82%) DHCP
9 25 (0.76%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.67%) SAN
11 21 (0.64%) Network Security
12 18 (0.55%) Internet
12 18 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
13 17 (0.52%) Wireless
14 15 (0.46%) 4G
15 13 (0.39%) 3GPP
16 12 (0.36%) HTTP
16 12 (0.36%) LTE
16 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (2.67%) 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 18 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.49%) Metadata
6 16 (0.49%) Tableau
7 13 (0.39%) GIS
8 11 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 10 (0.30%) Big Data
9 10 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 9 (0.27%) EDMS
10 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 281 (8.53%) JIRA
2 37 (1.12%) Git
3 34 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.91%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.52%) Postman
7 16 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 12 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.36%) Subversion
9 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.27%) Travis CI
11 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) AppScan
12 6 (0.18%) Storybook
12 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
General
1 1,379 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 949 (28.82%) Finance
3 497 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 209 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
6 188 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 176 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
8 169 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 169 (5.13%) Marketing
9 153 (4.65%) Banking
9 153 (4.65%) Legal
10 135 (4.10%) Telecoms
11 97 (2.95%) Retail
12 86 (2.61%) Local Government
13 80 (2.43%) Electronics
14 67 (2.03%) Aerospace
15 62 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 59 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 47 (1.43%) Law
18 38 (1.15%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,184 (35.96%) Project Manager
2 306 (9.29%) Analyst
3 287 (8.72%) Senior
4 259 (7.87%) Lead
5 181 (5.50%) Architect
6 176 (5.34%) Senior Manager
7 166 (5.04%) IT Manager
8 161 (4.89%) Business Analyst
9 136 (4.13%) Consultant
10 129 (3.92%) IT Project Manager
11 108 (3.28%) Senior Project Manager
12 106 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
13 91 (2.76%) Technical Manager
14 89 (2.70%) Developer
15 81 (2.46%) Programme Manager
16 68 (2.06%) Security Manager
17 66 (2.00%) Technical Project Manager
18 64 (1.94%) Infrastructure Manager
19 58 (1.76%) Change Manager
20 55 (1.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.88%) YAML
2 27 (0.82%) XML
3 26 (0.79%) React
4 24 (0.73%) .NET
5 22 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (0.52%) Vue
7 15 (0.46%) Spring
8 14 (0.43%) Laravel
9 13 (0.39%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.36%) EDI
10 12 (0.36%) JSON
11 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.30%) ADO
12 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
12 10 (0.30%) CSS
13 8 (0.24%) HTML
13 8 (0.24%) Playwright
13 8 (0.24%) Web Services
14 7 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 175 (5.31%) Management Information System
2 92 (2.79%) Product Ownership
3 82 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 72 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 60 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (1.55%) PMI
7 46 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (1.12%) NHS
9 35 (1.06%) Analogue Electronics
10 33 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 31 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (0.94%) Life Science
12 30 (0.91%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.82%) FMCG
14 24 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.58%) Driving Licence
16 19 (0.58%) Social Media
17 18 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 103 (3.13%) Windows
2 90 (2.73%) Linux
3 44 (1.34%) 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 (0.39%) 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 1,033 (31.37%) Agile
2 743 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 669 (20.32%) Project Delivery
4 647 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
5 530 (16.09%) PRINCE2
6 415 (12.60%) Change Management
7 346 (10.51%) Risk Management
8 283 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 267 (8.11%) Decision-Making
10 262 (7.96%) Migration
11 250 (7.59%) Scrum
12 239 (7.26%) Waterfall
13 206 (6.26%) Programme Management
14 204 (6.19%) Project Planning
15 196 (5.95%) Business Case
16 191 (5.80%) DevOps
17 174 (5.28%) ITIL
17 174 (5.28%) Roadmaps
18 166 (5.04%) Analytics
19 165 (5.01%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (3.86%) SQL
2 110 (3.34%) Python
3 65 (1.97%) PowerShell
4 47 (1.43%) Java
5 42 (1.28%) 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%) REXX
12 14 (0.43%) C#
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
1 540 (16.40%) Security Cleared
2 536 (16.28%) Degree
3 352 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 219 (6.65%) PMP
5 211 (6.41%) PMI Certification
6 160 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 67 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 52 (1.58%) APMP
11 45 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 44 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 39 (1.18%) CISSP
14 37 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 34 (1.03%) CCNA
16 31 (0.94%) CCNP
17 30 (0.91%) CISM
18 22 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
20 17 (0.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (10.26%) PMO
2 205 (6.23%) QA
3 50 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.31%) GDPR
6 30 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.79%) SLA
8 25 (0.76%) JSP 440
9 16 (0.49%) NIST
10 14 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 13 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.30%) GxP
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 62 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 44 (1.34%) Docker
3 33 (1.00%) 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 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.12%) ACF2
11 4 (0.12%) RACF
11 4 (0.12%) vSphere
12 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.061%) HDFS
13 2 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.061%) PowerHA
13 2 (0.061%) XenApp
13 2 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (1.76%) Ansible
2 46 (1.40%) Terraform
3 44 (1.34%) 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%) SCOM
8 18 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.46%) WSUS
11 14 (0.43%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.36%) Graylog
13 10 (0.30%) Kibana
13 10 (0.30%) logstash
14 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 519 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 282 (8.56%) SAP
3 128 (3.89%) Oracle
4 72 (2.19%) Cisco
5 59 (1.79%) Adobe
6 58 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 47 (1.43%) Google
8 45 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 43 (1.31%) VMware
10 40 (1.21%) Dell
11 39 (1.18%) IBM
12 36 (1.09%) Juniper
13 33 (1.00%) Splunk
14 25 (0.76%) Ariba
15 24 (0.73%) Broadcom
16 23 (0.70%) CA
17 22 (0.67%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.61%) Palo Alto
19 19 (0.58%) Brocade
20 18 (0.55%) Veeam