Project Management Contracts in the Midlands

Project Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 209 333 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.66% 9.67% 9.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 10.93% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 220 372
10th Percentile £350 £275 £306
25th Percentile £431 £409 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £685 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £527 £500
% change year-on-year -0.40% +5.42% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 9
10th Percentile £13.64 £21.55 £20.25
25th Percentile £15.85 £22.92 £21.10
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -4.02% +1.42%
75th Percentile £50.94 £35.88 £31.50
90th Percentile £58.75 £63.25 £34.50
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
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 3,047 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.47% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,126 3,298
10th Percentile £238 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 152
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the Midlands

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +2 163 £525 +5.00% 271
East Midlands -9 43 £481 +1.32% 143
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.87%) Simulink
3 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.39%) Stateflow
3 5 (2.39%) TargetLink
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.48%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.91%) Primavera
3 2 (0.96%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.96%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.48%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.48%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.48%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 16 (7.66%) Azure
2 7 (3.35%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (1.91%) PowerApps
4 3 (1.44%) AWS
4 3 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.96%) Power Automate
5 2 (0.96%) SaaS
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.48%) IaaS
6 1 (0.48%) PaaS
6 1 (0.48%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.39%) LAN
1 5 (2.39%) Network Security
1 5 (2.39%) VPN
1 5 (2.39%) WAN
2 4 (1.91%) Firewall
2 4 (1.91%) Intranet
3 2 (0.96%) Internet
3 2 (0.96%) SMS
3 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) DHCP
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) Junos
4 1 (0.48%) NAS
4 1 (0.48%) SAN
4 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.39%) Electronic Patient Records
1 5 (2.39%) Power BI
2 2 (0.96%) MS Access
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.48%) Metadata
3 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) JIRA
2 5 (2.39%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.39%) Git
2 5 (2.39%) Subversion
General
1 88 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 55 (26.32%) Finance
3 41 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.66%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.22%) Law
7 11 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.78%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.78%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.31%) Automotive
10 8 (3.83%) Banking
11 7 (3.35%) Legal
11 7 (3.35%) Retail
12 5 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.44%) Local Government
15 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
16 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 99 (47.37%) Project Manager
2 34 (16.27%) Senior
3 26 (12.44%) Analyst
4 13 (6.22%) IT Manager
4 13 (6.22%) Senior Manager
5 12 (5.74%) Senior Analyst
5 12 (5.74%) Senior Project Manager
6 11 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 11 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
6 11 (5.26%) PMO Analyst
7 10 (4.78%) Lead
8 9 (4.31%) Architect
9 8 (3.83%) Security Manager
9 8 (3.83%) Senior PMO
10 7 (3.35%) Security Project Manager
10 7 (3.35%) Senior PMO Analyst
11 6 (2.87%) AML Project Manager
11 6 (2.87%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 6 (2.87%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (2.87%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.48%) Ajax
1 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.48%) LDAP
1 1 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (0.48%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.87%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.87%) NHS
3 6 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.39%) PMI
4 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.91%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.44%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.39%) Windows
2 2 (0.96%) Linux
2 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (29.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (28.23%) Agile
3 48 (22.97%) Project Delivery
4 42 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (13.40%) PRINCE2
6 25 (11.96%) Change Management
7 24 (11.48%) Decision-Making
7 24 (11.48%) Risk Management
8 23 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.09%) Business Case
10 17 (8.13%) Migration
11 16 (7.66%) Resource Management
12 15 (7.18%) Scrum
12 15 (7.18%) Waterfall
13 14 (6.70%) ERP
13 14 (6.70%) Resource Allocation
13 14 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (6.22%) ITIL
14 13 (6.22%) Programme Management
14 13 (6.22%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.87%) MATLAB
2 5 (2.39%) C
3 4 (1.91%) Java
4 2 (0.96%) Python
4 2 (0.96%) SQL
5 1 (0.48%) C++
5 1 (0.48%) Perl
5 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (12.44%) Degree
2 16 (7.66%) PMP
3 15 (7.18%) PMI Certification
4 14 (6.70%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.44%) CBAP
8 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.44%) ISEB
8 3 (1.44%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.96%) CCNA
9 2 (0.96%) CCNP
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.96%) IIBA
9 2 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.96%) PMO
2 9 (4.31%) QA
3 6 (2.87%) ISO 26262
4 5 (2.39%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (2.39%) MISRA
4 5 (2.39%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) IFRS
6 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) P3O
6 1 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.48%) iptables
2 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.44%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.48%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.48%) Kibana
3 1 (0.48%) logstash
3 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (9.09%) SAP
2 16 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.35%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.87%) Oracle
5 4 (1.91%) NEC
5 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.44%) HP
7 2 (0.96%) Cisco
7 2 (0.96%) Northgate
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe
8 1 (0.48%) Ariba
8 1 (0.48%) CODA
8 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.48%) Infor
8 1 (0.48%) Juniper
8 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.48%) Palantir
8 1 (0.48%) Planview
8 1 (0.48%) Sage
8 1 (0.48%) VMware