Project Management Contracts in England

Project Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2,869 3,727 5,629
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.84% 7.59% 7.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 8.41% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,778 2,568 3,865
10th Percentile £313 £350 £328
25th Percentile £413 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +6.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 147 199
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.39 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.24 £30.40 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +23.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £81.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
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 Project Management within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 +4 1,294 £550 -4.35% 1,105
South East -7 412 £489 -2.25% 591
North of England -2 345 £500 - 557
South West +7 321 £525 -4.55% 317
Midlands -2 206 £505 +1.00% 504
East of England +6 203 £525 +5.00% 264
North West -2 192 £500 - 341
West Midlands +2 160 £525 +5.00% 328
Yorkshire +9 125 £500 -4.76% 171
East Midlands -5 45 £488 +2.09% 176
North East +17 30 £600 +55.84% 52
Project Management
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Project Management
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
1 130 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 61 (2.13%) Confluence
3 37 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.19%) CMS
5 13 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.35%) Drupal
6 10 (0.35%) SAS
7 5 (0.17%) Apache
7 5 (0.17%) Documentum
7 5 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.14%) CICS
8 4 (0.14%) nginx
8 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.10%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.070%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.070%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 199 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 194 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 135 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
4 111 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 54 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
6 42 (1.46%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.28%) Simulink
8 7 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.24%) InDesign
9 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.17%) Revit
10 5 (0.17%) Stateflow
10 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
11 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.14%) Trello
12 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.070%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 79 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.05%) Loan IQ
3 20 (0.70%) Primavera
4 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
6 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
6 8 (0.28%) Workfront
7 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.24%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 229 (7.98%) Azure
2 98 (3.42%) Power Platform
3 92 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (3.07%) AWS
5 59 (2.06%) SaaS
6 38 (1.32%) GitHub
6 38 (1.32%) OCI
7 37 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.08%) GCP
9 28 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
11 20 (0.70%) PowerApps
12 18 (0.63%) Google Workspace
13 16 (0.56%) Slack
14 15 (0.52%) OneDrive
15 14 (0.49%) Entra ID
15 14 (0.49%) WhatsApp
16 13 (0.45%) Smartsheet
17 12 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.85%) WAN
2 50 (1.74%) Firewall
3 46 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
4 45 (1.57%) VPN
5 43 (1.50%) LAN
6 34 (1.19%) DNS
7 27 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
8 23 (0.80%) DHCP
8 23 (0.80%) Intranet
8 23 (0.80%) SAN
9 22 (0.77%) Wireless
10 20 (0.70%) Network Security
10 20 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
11 17 (0.59%) 4G
12 16 (0.56%) TCP/IP
13 13 (0.45%) Internet
14 12 (0.42%) 3GPP
14 12 (0.42%) LTE
14 12 (0.42%) Wireshark
15 11 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (3.03%) Power BI
2 40 (1.39%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (0.63%) Relational Database
5 15 (0.52%) MySQL
6 14 (0.49%) Tableau
7 13 (0.45%) GIS
7 13 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.38%) Big Data
10 10 (0.35%) Data Mining
10 10 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
10 10 (0.35%) Metadata
11 9 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 7 (0.24%) EDMS
13 7 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.21%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 217 (7.56%) JIRA
2 29 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 25 (0.87%) Git
4 18 (0.63%) GitLab
5 12 (0.42%) Subversion
6 9 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.28%) TestRail
8 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.21%) Postman
9 6 (0.21%) Travis CI
10 5 (0.17%) AppScan
10 5 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.14%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.14%) Selenium
11 4 (0.14%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,196 (41.69%) Social Skills
2 890 (31.02%) Finance
3 443 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 179 (6.24%) Presentation Skills
6 175 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
7 156 (5.44%) Banking
8 151 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
9 150 (5.23%) Manufacturing
10 144 (5.02%) Marketing
11 132 (4.60%) Legal
12 123 (4.29%) Telecoms
13 87 (3.03%) Retail
14 73 (2.54%) Electronics
15 64 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
16 63 (2.20%) Local Government
17 61 (2.13%) Aerospace
18 48 (1.67%) Front Office
19 45 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 44 (1.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,014 (35.34%) Project Manager
2 268 (9.34%) Lead
3 265 (9.24%) Analyst
4 219 (7.63%) Senior
5 164 (5.72%) Architect
6 147 (5.12%) Business Analyst
7 137 (4.78%) IT Manager
8 125 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 110 (3.83%) IT Project Manager
10 106 (3.69%) Consultant
11 93 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 88 (3.07%) Senior Project Manager
13 83 (2.89%) Technical Manager
14 78 (2.72%) Developer
15 73 (2.54%) Programme Manager
15 73 (2.54%) Security Manager
16 56 (1.95%) Technical Project Manager
17 54 (1.88%) Security Project Manager
18 53 (1.85%) Infrastructure Manager
19 46 (1.60%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (0.84%) .NET
1 24 (0.84%) XML
2 23 (0.80%) YAML
3 20 (0.70%) React
4 16 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (0.52%) ADO
6 14 (0.49%) AngularJS
6 14 (0.49%) Spring
7 13 (0.45%) EDI
8 10 (0.35%) JSON
9 8 (0.28%) CSS
10 7 (0.24%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.24%) Web Services
11 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.21%) HTML
12 4 (0.14%) Kafka
12 4 (0.14%) Middleware
12 4 (0.14%) Node.js
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 146 (5.09%) Management Information System
2 72 (2.51%) Data Centre
3 62 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 56 (1.95%) Onboarding
5 53 (1.85%) PMI
6 50 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 32 (1.12%) Analogue Electronics
9 31 (1.08%) NHS
9 31 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 29 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 26 (0.91%) Life Science
13 25 (0.87%) Public Cloud
14 22 (0.77%) Social Media
15 20 (0.70%) Derivative
15 20 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
17 18 (0.63%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.03%) Windows
2 78 (2.72%) Linux
3 38 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (0.70%) Android
6 20 (0.70%) zOS
7 18 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.52%) Windows XP
10 14 (0.49%) Unix
11 11 (0.38%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.21%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.10%) VMS
14 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.070%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 857 (29.87%) Agile
2 669 (23.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 588 (20.49%) Project Delivery
4 575 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
5 454 (15.82%) PRINCE2
6 354 (12.34%) Change Management
7 284 (9.90%) Risk Management
8 258 (8.99%) Migration
9 257 (8.96%) Decision-Making
10 243 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 200 (6.97%) Scrum
12 199 (6.94%) Programme Management
13 194 (6.76%) Waterfall
14 189 (6.59%) Project Planning
15 175 (6.10%) Business Case
16 155 (5.40%) ITIL
17 153 (5.33%) DevOps
18 152 (5.30%) Budget Management
19 150 (5.23%) Roadmaps
20 147 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 105 (3.66%) SQL
2 89 (3.10%) Python
3 64 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 46 (1.60%) Java
5 40 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 27 (0.94%) C
7 22 (0.77%) C#
8 21 (0.73%) Bash
9 15 (0.52%) JCL
9 15 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 15 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.42%) REXX
11 8 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 8 (0.28%) Scala
12 7 (0.24%) R
12 7 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.24%) XPath
12 7 (0.24%) XQuery
13 5 (0.17%) C++
14 4 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 473 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 451 (15.72%) Degree
3 300 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 181 (6.31%) PMI Certification
5 173 (6.03%) PMP
6 158 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 72 (2.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 55 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.74%) APMP
10 44 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 37 (1.29%) CISSP
12 36 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 29 (1.01%) CCNA
15 27 (0.94%) CCNP
15 27 (0.94%) CISM
16 24 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
17 19 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
17 19 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.49%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (10.87%) PMO
2 159 (5.54%) QA
3 45 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.15%) GDPR
6 29 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.94%) SLA
8 26 (0.91%) JSP 440
9 15 (0.52%) NIST
10 10 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.35%) GxP
10 10 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.31%) P3O
12 7 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.21%) Basel III
13 6 (0.21%) EMIR
13 6 (0.21%) GAMP
13 6 (0.21%) IFRS
13 6 (0.21%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 62 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (0.80%) Docker
4 21 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.56%) NFS
6 15 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) ACF2
10 4 (0.14%) RACF
10 4 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.10%) KVM
11 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.10%) vSphere
12 2 (0.070%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.035%) iptables
13 1 (0.035%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.035%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 35 (1.22%) Ansible
2 28 (0.98%) SCCM
3 24 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 24 (0.84%) Terraform
4 23 (0.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 21 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 19 (0.66%) SCOM
7 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (0.52%) Grafana
8 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.52%) WSUS
9 14 (0.49%) NetBackup
9 14 (0.49%) Puppet
10 13 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.31%) Graylog
12 8 (0.28%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.24%) Kibana
13 7 (0.24%) logstash
14 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 441 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 236 (8.23%) SAP
3 99 (3.45%) Oracle
4 68 (2.37%) Cisco
5 48 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 47 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 44 (1.53%) Adobe
8 41 (1.43%) VMware
9 39 (1.36%) Google
10 37 (1.29%) Juniper
11 35 (1.22%) Dell
12 33 (1.15%) IBM
13 21 (0.73%) Splunk
14 20 (0.70%) Ariba
14 20 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.66%) Broadcom
15 19 (0.66%) CA
15 19 (0.66%) HP
15 19 (0.66%) Veeam
16 18 (0.63%) EMC