Project Manager Contracts in Scotland

Project Manager
UK > Scotland

The median Project Manager daily rate in Scotland is £475 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 36 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 117 214 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.30% 7.50% 8.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.60% 7.88% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 165 230
10th Percentile £325 £364 £363
25th Percentile £412 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £466
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +4.56% +13.72%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £525
90th Percentile £575 £588 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +62.50% -34.79%
UK median hourly rate £36.33 £65.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -44.10% +27.45% +72.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +23 55 £488 +2.63% 16
Glasgow -33 32 £500 +5.26% 15
West Lothian +5 9 £450 -12.20% 1
Dundee - 6 £288 - 1
Lanarkshire +1 4 £463 -11.90% 6
Perthshire +5 3 £500 -12.28%
South Lanarkshire - 2 £450 - 1
Renfrewshire -2 1 £475 +24.02%
Aberdeen -4 1 - - 8
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Project Manager
UK

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

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

1 68 (58.12%) Project Management
2 47 (40.17%) Agile
3 45 (38.46%) Finance
4 42 (35.90%) Public Sector
5 32 (27.35%) Social Skills
6 28 (23.93%) Project Delivery
7 23 (19.66%) PRINCE2
8 20 (17.09%) Business Case
9 19 (16.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (13.68%) Waterfall
11 15 (12.82%) Degree
12 13 (11.11%) Risk Management
13 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
13 12 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (9.40%) Management Information System
15 10 (8.55%) Change Management
15 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Project
15 10 (8.55%) Disclosure Scotland
16 9 (7.69%) Business Strategy
16 9 (7.69%) JIRA
17 8 (6.84%) ERP
17 8 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
17 8 (6.84%) Contingency Planning
18 7 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (5.98%) Migration
18 7 (5.98%) Business Analysis
18 7 (5.98%) Time Management
18 7 (5.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 7 (5.98%) Azure

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.85%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.98%) Azure
2 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (2.56%) OCI
3 2 (1.71%) SaaS
3 2 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (0.85%) AWS
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.85%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Firewall
2 3 (2.56%) LAN
2 3 (2.56%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) MPLS
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.85%) DB2
2 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 45 (38.46%) Finance
2 42 (35.90%) Public Sector
3 32 (27.35%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Banking
7 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.40%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.42%) Mainframe
2 4 (3.42%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.85%) BYOD
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.85%) FMCG
5 1 (0.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.85%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (58.12%) Project Management
2 47 (40.17%) Agile
3 28 (23.93%) Project Delivery
4 23 (19.66%) PRINCE2
5 20 (17.09%) Business Case
6 19 (16.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.68%) Waterfall
8 13 (11.11%) Risk Management
9 10 (8.55%) Change Management
10 9 (7.69%) Business Strategy
11 8 (6.84%) Contingency Planning
11 8 (6.84%) ERP
11 8 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (5.98%) Business Analysis
12 7 (5.98%) Migration
12 7 (5.98%) Time Management
13 6 (5.13%) Change Control
13 6 (5.13%) Programme Management
13 6 (5.13%) Resource Allocation
13 6 (5.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.56%) Perl
1 3 (2.56%) Python
2 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
2 2 (1.71%) SQL
3 1 (0.85%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.82%) Degree
2 7 (5.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 4 (3.42%) PMP
3 4 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) APMP
4 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.71%) HNC
5 2 (1.71%) HND
5 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) FFIEC
6 1 (0.85%) RIBA
6 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.56%) QA
3 2 (1.71%) COBIT
3 2 (1.71%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) NIST
Vendors
1 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.27%) Oracle
3 4 (3.42%) SAP
4 2 (1.71%) Avaloq
4 2 (1.71%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.85%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco
5 1 (0.85%) Cognos
5 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.85%) IBM