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 10 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 303 266
Rank change year-on-year -40 -37 +110
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 214 401 725
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.82% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.87% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 325 563
10th Percentile £371 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +4.88% +13.89%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £685 £673 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile - - £32.40
25th Percentile £23.63 £61.25 £40.50
Median hourly rate £34.14 £62.50 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.38% +29.53% +4.89%
75th Percentile £56.50 £64.38 £59.63
90th Percentile £62.50 £64.75 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -31.20% +21.36% +18.81%

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 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
London +20 93 £600 +9.09% 12
South East -3 33 £525 +1.94% 14
North of England +9 31 £463 -15.91% 14
Midlands -8 27 £500 +2.56% 14
West Midlands -6 26 £507 +4.00% 11
South West +14 25 £475 -7.32% 6
North West +14 17 £525 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire -2 9 £450 -18.18% 4
North East - 4 £525 - 1
East Midlands +12 1 £500 - 3
East of England +1 1 £500 -6.98% 3
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 10 May 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.

1 111 (51.87%) Project Management
2 64 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 63 (29.44%) Finance
4 51 (23.83%) Agile
5 49 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (20.09%) PRINCE2
7 37 (17.29%) Project Delivery
8 22 (10.28%) Migration
9 20 (9.35%) Budget Management
10 18 (8.41%) Banking
10 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
10 18 (8.41%) Change Management
11 17 (7.94%) PMP
11 17 (7.94%) Waterfall
12 16 (7.48%) PMI Certification
13 15 (7.01%) Degree
14 14 (6.54%) Project Planning
14 14 (6.54%) JIRA
14 14 (6.54%) SC Cleared
14 14 (6.54%) Azure
15 13 (6.07%) Microsoft
15 13 (6.07%) Risk Management
15 13 (6.07%) Public Sector
16 12 (5.61%) Resource Allocation
16 12 (5.61%) ITIL
17 11 (5.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 11 (5.14%) Manufacturing
17 11 (5.14%) Programme Management
17 11 (5.14%) Decision-Making
17 11 (5.14%) Problem-Solving

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 10 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.34%) Confluence
2 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Appian
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.54%) Azure
2 8 (3.74%) SaaS
3 5 (2.34%) WhatsApp
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.93%) AWS
5 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.47%) Slack
6 1 (0.47%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Broadband
1 2 (0.93%) LAN
1 2 (0.93%) WAN
2 1 (0.47%) Internet
2 1 (0.47%) Intranet
2 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.47%) Skype
2 1 (0.47%) SNMP
2 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.40%) Power BI
3 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.47%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.54%) JIRA
General
1 64 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 63 (29.44%) Finance
3 18 (8.41%) Banking
4 13 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.14%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.67%) Legal
6 10 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.80%) Law
7 6 (2.80%) Retail
8 5 (2.34%) Automotive
9 4 (1.87%) Back Office
9 4 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.40%) Dutch Language
10 3 (1.40%) German Language
10 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Local Government
11 2 (0.93%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.47%) ADO
1 1 (0.47%) Express.js
1 1 (0.47%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.47%) Middleware
1 1 (0.47%) Node.js
1 1 (0.47%) React
1 1 (0.47%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.80%) Data Centre
1 6 (2.80%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.87%) FMCG
3 4 (1.87%) NHS
4 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.40%) PMI
4 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.93%) CMDB
5 2 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.47%) Contactless
6 1 (0.47%) Derivative
6 1 (0.47%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.47%) LIMS
6 1 (0.47%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.47%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.27%) Windows
2 3 (1.40%) Unix
2 3 (1.40%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (51.87%) Project Management
2 51 (23.83%) Agile
3 49 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (20.09%) PRINCE2
5 37 (17.29%) Project Delivery
6 22 (10.28%) Migration
7 20 (9.35%) Budget Management
8 18 (8.41%) Change Management
9 17 (7.94%) Waterfall
10 14 (6.54%) Project Planning
11 13 (6.07%) Risk Management
12 12 (5.61%) ITIL
12 12 (5.61%) Resource Allocation
13 11 (5.14%) Decision-Making
13 11 (5.14%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (5.14%) Programme Management
14 10 (4.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
14 10 (4.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (4.67%) Static Application Security Testing
15 9 (4.21%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.47%) C#
1 1 (0.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.94%) PMP
3 16 (7.48%) PMI Certification
4 15 (7.01%) Degree
5 14 (6.54%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 7 (3.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.47%) CAPM
11 1 (0.47%) CCNA
11 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.21%) PMO
2 7 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.87%) NIST
4 3 (1.40%) EMIR
5 2 (0.93%) Basel III
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) GxP
5 2 (0.93%) MiFID
5 2 (0.93%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.47%) GAMP
6 1 (0.47%) GMP
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.47%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Matomo
1 1 (0.47%) SafeCom
1 1 (0.47%) SCCM
1 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.21%) SAP
3 5 (2.34%) Cisco
4 3 (1.40%) Siemens
5 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.93%) Citrix
5 2 (0.93%) Remedy
5 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.93%) Workday
6 1 (0.47%) Ariba
6 1 (0.47%) Arista
6 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.47%) Concur
6 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.47%) Meraki
6 1 (0.47%) Pega
6 1 (0.47%) Radianz
6 1 (0.47%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.47%) Reuters
76 IT Project Manager jobs Nationwide