IT Project Manager Contracts in England

IT Project Manager
UK > England

The median IT Project Manager daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 309 269
Rank change year-on-year -14 -40 +131
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 222 415 729
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.82% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.87% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 332 566
10th Percentile £371 £390 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year - +2.69% +13.61%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - - £26.99
25th Percentile £23.63 £61.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.28 £62.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.56% +38.89% +73.08%
75th Percentile £46.00 £64.38 £52.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £64.75 £69.95
UK median hourly rate £34.14 £62.50 £48.25
% change year-on-year -45.38% +29.53% +11.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +25 96 £610 +10.91% 17
North of England +5 34 £455 -17.27% 13
South East +1 32 £510 -0.97% 13
Midlands -12 27 £507 +2.68% 11
South West +20 26 £475 -2.56% 11
West Midlands +4 26 £514 +5.44% 6
North West +2 17 £506 +0.45% 7
Yorkshire +1 12 £450 -18.18% 4
North East - 4 £525 - 2
East of England +3 3 £488 -3.47% 4
East Midlands +7 1 £500 - 5
IT Project Manager
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IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, IT 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 across the England region featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 112 (50.45%) Project Management
2 66 (29.73%) Finance
3 63 (28.38%) Social Skills
4 53 (23.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (22.52%) Agile
6 43 (19.37%) PRINCE2
7 40 (18.02%) Project Delivery
8 21 (9.46%) Banking
9 20 (9.01%) Migration
10 19 (8.56%) Budget Management
11 18 (8.11%) Security Cleared
12 17 (7.66%) Change Management
12 17 (7.66%) PMP
13 16 (7.21%) PMI Certification
14 15 (6.76%) Microsoft
14 15 (6.76%) Azure
14 15 (6.76%) Waterfall
14 15 (6.76%) Degree
15 14 (6.31%) JIRA
15 14 (6.31%) SC Cleared
16 13 (5.86%) Project Planning
16 13 (5.86%) Public Sector
17 12 (5.41%) Static Application Security Testing
17 12 (5.41%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
17 12 (5.41%) Resource Allocation
17 12 (5.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 12 (5.41%) ITIL
17 12 (5.41%) Risk Management
18 11 (4.95%) Programme Management
18 11 (4.95%) SharePoint

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Appian
4 1 (0.45%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.76%) Azure
2 8 (3.60%) SaaS
3 5 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (2.25%) WhatsApp
4 4 (1.80%) AWS
5 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.45%) Slack
7 1 (0.45%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) LAN
1 2 (0.90%) VoIP
1 2 (0.90%) WAN
2 1 (0.45%) Intranet
2 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.45%) Skype
2 1 (0.45%) SNMP
2 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.35%) Power BI
3 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.45%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.31%) JIRA
General
1 66 (29.73%) Finance
2 63 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.46%) Banking
4 13 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.50%) Legal
5 10 (4.50%) Manufacturing
5 10 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.15%) Law
7 6 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.70%) Retail
8 5 (2.25%) Automotive
9 4 (1.80%) Back Office
9 4 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.35%) Dutch Language
10 3 (1.35%) Front Office
10 3 (1.35%) German Language
10 3 (1.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.45%) ADO
1 1 (0.45%) Express.js
1 1 (0.45%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.45%) Middleware
1 1 (0.45%) Node.js
1 1 (0.45%) React
1 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.25%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.80%) FMCG
3 4 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.80%) NHS
4 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.35%) PMI
4 3 (1.35%) Smart Meter
5 2 (0.90%) CMDB
5 2 (0.90%) Derivative
5 2 (0.90%) Life Science
5 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.45%) CCTV
6 1 (0.45%) Contactless
6 1 (0.45%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.45%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.60%) Windows
2 4 (1.80%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (50.45%) Project Management
2 53 (23.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (22.52%) Agile
4 43 (19.37%) PRINCE2
5 40 (18.02%) Project Delivery
6 20 (9.01%) Migration
7 19 (8.56%) Budget Management
8 17 (7.66%) Change Management
9 15 (6.76%) Waterfall
10 13 (5.86%) Project Planning
11 12 (5.41%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 12 (5.41%) ITIL
11 12 (5.41%) Resource Allocation
11 12 (5.41%) Risk Management
11 12 (5.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (5.41%) Static Application Security Testing
12 11 (4.95%) Decision-Making
12 11 (4.95%) Programme Management
13 10 (4.50%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (4.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.45%) C#
1 1 (0.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.66%) PMP
3 16 (7.21%) PMI Certification
4 15 (6.76%) Degree
5 14 (6.31%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 7 (3.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.45%) APMP
11 1 (0.45%) CAPM
11 1 (0.45%) CCNA
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.05%) PMO
2 6 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.35%) EMIR
3 3 (1.35%) NIST
4 2 (0.90%) Basel III
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) GxP
4 2 (0.90%) MiFID
4 2 (0.90%) QA
4 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.45%) GAMP
5 1 (0.45%) GMP
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.45%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) Matomo
1 1 (0.45%) SCCM
1 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.60%) SAP
3 5 (2.25%) Cisco
4 3 (1.35%) Siemens
5 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.90%) Citrix
5 2 (0.90%) Remedy
5 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.90%) Workday
6 1 (0.45%) Ariba
6 1 (0.45%) Arista
6 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.45%) Concur
6 1 (0.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.45%) Meraki
6 1 (0.45%) Pega
6 1 (0.45%) Radianz
6 1 (0.45%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.45%) Reuters
76 IT Project Manager jobs Nationwide