Project Management Contracts in the East of England

Project Management
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Management 204 190 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.77% 9.55% 9.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.59% 10.92% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 97 169
10th Percentile £260 £261 £273
25th Percentile £388 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £604 £606 £540
90th Percentile £750 £695 £638
England median daily rate £525 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -1.45% +6.55% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 28 10
10th Percentile £31.00 £36.78 £12.50
25th Percentile - £49.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £58.56 £24.96
Median % change year-on-year -34.91% +134.67% -22.02%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £67.28 £87.18
England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +23.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 1,740 2,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.49% 87.44% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 1,019 1,282
10th Percentile £204 £205 £185
25th Percentile £332 £315 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £554
90th Percentile £678 £700 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 334 376
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -15.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.20 £70.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the East of England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the East of England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the East of England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the East of England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the East of England

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hertfordshire +10 117 £450 -18.18% 83
Bedfordshire -1 39 £575 +21.05% 21
Cambridgeshire -3 28 £478 -8.95% 56
Essex -15 9 £575 +15.00% 49
Norfolk +7 8 £525 +128.26% 16
Suffolk +5 1 £641 -1.46% 10
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.47%) Confluence
3 2 (0.98%) SAS
4 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (7.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.96%) Primavera
3 2 (0.98%) SAP PS
3 2 (0.98%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.49%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 7 (3.43%) AWS
1 7 (3.43%) Azure
2 6 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.96%) GCP
4 3 (1.47%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.98%) OCI
5 2 (0.98%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomreach
6 1 (0.49%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.96%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.47%) Power BI
2 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.49%) Metadata
3 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.92%) JIRA
2 3 (1.47%) Git
2 3 (1.47%) Subversion
3 2 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 133 (65.20%) Social Skills
2 82 (40.20%) Finance
3 57 (27.94%) Influencing Skills
4 54 (26.47%) Organisational Skills
5 41 (20.10%) Aerospace
5 41 (20.10%) Electronics
5 41 (20.10%) Manufacturing
6 25 (12.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.45%) Banking
10 4 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.96%) Retail
11 3 (1.47%) Local Government
11 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.98%) French Language
12 2 (0.98%) Games
12 2 (0.98%) Marketing
12 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 39 (19.12%) Project Manager
2 32 (15.69%) Architect
2 32 (15.69%) Test Architect
3 20 (9.80%) Lead
4 14 (6.86%) Analyst
5 8 (3.92%) Senior
6 7 (3.43%) Administrator
6 7 (3.43%) Business Analyst
6 7 (3.43%) Consultant
6 7 (3.43%) Technical Manager
7 6 (2.94%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (2.94%) Project Administrator
8 5 (2.45%) Change Manager
8 5 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (2.45%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 4 (1.96%) Intranet Specialist
9 4 (1.96%) SAP Manager
9 4 (1.96%) Senior Manager
9 4 (1.96%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (1.47%) Finance Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.47%) JSON
1 3 (1.47%) YAML
2 2 (0.98%) Middleware
3 1 (0.49%) HTML
3 1 (0.49%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.49%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.69%) Analogue Electronics
2 11 (5.39%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.43%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.96%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.47%) ASIC
5 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.47%) FPGA
5 3 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.47%) NHS
5 3 (1.47%) Verilog
6 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.98%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.49%) BYOD
7 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.49%) Digital TV
7 1 (0.49%) FMCG
7 1 (0.49%) Life Science
7 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.96%) Linux
2 3 (1.47%) Unix
3 2 (0.98%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 47 (23.04%) Business Development
2 47 (23.04%) Business Strategy
3 33 (16.18%) Test Strategy
4 28 (13.73%) Change Management
5 23 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (9.80%) PRINCE2
7 19 (9.31%) Project Delivery
8 18 (8.82%) Risk Management
9 14 (6.86%) Agile
10 11 (5.39%) Migration
11 10 (4.90%) Project Planning
11 10 (4.90%) Service Design
12 9 (4.41%) Analytics
12 9 (4.41%) Earned Value Management
12 9 (4.41%) Validation
13 8 (3.92%) Business Case
14 7 (3.43%) Configuration Management
14 7 (3.43%) ITIL
14 7 (3.43%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.96%) C
2 3 (1.47%) Assembly Language
2 3 (1.47%) Bash
2 3 (1.47%) C++
2 3 (1.47%) Python
2 3 (1.47%) Shell Script
2 3 (1.47%) SystemVerilog
2 3 (1.47%) Tcl
3 2 (0.98%) SQL
4 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (19.61%) SC Cleared
1 40 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.29%) Degree
3 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.98%) PMP
4 2 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.49%) CISSP
5 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.49%) PhD
5 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.35%) PMO
2 4 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 19 (9.31%) Microsoft
1 19 (9.31%) SAP
2 8 (3.92%) Ariba
3 7 (3.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.96%) Cadence
4 4 (1.96%) Google
5 3 (1.47%) Genesys
5 3 (1.47%) Synopsys
5 3 (1.47%) Xilinx
6 2 (0.98%) EMC
6 2 (0.98%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle
7 1 (0.49%) Avaya
7 1 (0.49%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.49%) IFS
7 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.49%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.49%) Remedy
7 1 (0.49%) Siemens
7 1 (0.49%) SonicWALL