Project Management Contracts in Merseyside

Project Management
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 18 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 14 33 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.25% 9.54% 13.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 10.89% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 33
10th Percentile £396 £334 £157
25th Percentile £400 £448 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +33.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £559 £547 £525
90th Percentile £643 £596 £595
North West median daily rate £513 £500 £440
% change year-on-year +2.50% +13.64% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £30.39 £16.69 £11.00
25th Percentile £32.85 £17.45 £15.51
Median hourly rate £34.21 £19.44 £23.02
Median % change year-on-year +76.02% -15.56% +2.29%
75th Percentile £34.72 £21.95 £30.52
90th Percentile £35.64 £23.03 £35.03
North West median hourly rate £35.95 £35.00 £38.03
% change year-on-year +2.71% -7.97% +69.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 303 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.02% 87.57% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 233 224
10th Percentile £144 £313 £182
25th Percentile £245 £400 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £494 £575 £541
90th Percentile £608 £688 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 19
10th Percentile - £16.23 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £10.27
Median hourly rate £20.31 £18.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% +38.46% -16.13%
75th Percentile £34.32 £23.75 £17.13
90th Percentile £37.18 £25.63 £34.47
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Merseyside over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 26 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
Liverpool -8 11 £400 -20.00% 19
Wirral - 1 £420 - 1
Project Management
North West

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
General
1 5 (35.71%) Local Government
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (21.43%) Police
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Strategy Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 2 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Commercial Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Commercial Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Development Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) QA Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Research Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.14%) Budget Management
4 1 (7.14%) Business Case
4 1 (7.14%) Change Control
4 1 (7.14%) Change Management
4 1 (7.14%) CRM
4 1 (7.14%) ERP
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Product Backlog
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Management
4 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) HNC
1 3 (21.43%) NVQ Level 4
2 1 (7.14%) CCNA
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) MCP
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
2 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) GMP
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe