Project Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Project Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 224 346 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.43% 11.94% 12.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.68% 13.00% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 253 316
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £409 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +3.37%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £543
90th Percentile £638 £685 £600
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £491
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.83% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £26.47 £22.10 £71.88
25th Percentile £41.25 £22.25 £72.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.00 £78.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -68.05% +184.55%
75th Percentile £61.88 £57.50 £82.31
90th Percentile £69.23 £75.50 £82.43
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £49.00 £38.43
% change year-on-year -24.48% +27.51% +6.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 2,661 3,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £576
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the Thames Valley

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire -7 167 £525 +10.53% 98
Buckinghamshire -6 40 £430 -9.47% 59
Oxfordshire -3 17 £488 -8.24% 60
Project Management
South East

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.68%) Confluence
2 6 (2.68%) SAS
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.89%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 31 (13.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (8.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.23%) Primavera
3 3 (1.34%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.34%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.34%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.89%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.89%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.45%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.50%) Azure
2 15 (6.70%) OCI
3 7 (3.13%) Smartsheet
4 4 (1.79%) AWS
4 4 (1.79%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.34%) SaaS
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.45%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.45%) GitHub
7 1 (0.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.38%) Firewall
2 16 (7.14%) SAN
3 15 (6.70%) DHCP
3 15 (6.70%) DNS
4 8 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (3.13%) WAN
6 4 (1.79%) VPN
7 3 (1.34%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.34%) Wireless
8 2 (0.89%) 2G
8 2 (0.89%) 3G
8 2 (0.89%) 4G
8 2 (0.89%) 5G
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.89%) LAN
8 2 (0.89%) Network Security
8 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.45%) SDH
9 1 (0.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.23%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (1.79%) MySQL
2 4 (1.79%) Power BI
2 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 8 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 90 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.66%) Finance
3 35 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 29 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.95%) Public Sector
5 25 (11.16%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (8.04%) Legal
7 14 (6.25%) Manufacturing
8 12 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (4.46%) Automotive
10 9 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (4.02%) Mandarin Language
10 9 (4.02%) Marketing
11 8 (3.57%) Retail
12 7 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (3.13%) Law
13 3 (1.34%) Military
14 2 (0.89%) Banking
14 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (33.04%) Project Manager
2 27 (12.05%) Analyst
3 23 (10.27%) Senior
4 20 (8.93%) Lead
5 16 (7.14%) IT Manager
6 14 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 14 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.36%) IT Project Manager
8 11 (4.91%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (4.91%) Senior Manager
8 11 (4.91%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (4.46%) Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (4.46%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) Security Manager
12 7 (3.13%) Coordinator
12 7 (3.13%) HR Manager
12 7 (3.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
13 6 (2.68%) Finance Manager
13 6 (2.68%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.89%) EDI
1 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (0.89%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (0.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.80%) PMI
3 10 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.13%) Life Science
4 7 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.34%) CCTV
8 3 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.34%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.89%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Robotics
9 2 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.45%) CSOC
10 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.45%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.16%) Windows
2 19 (8.48%) Linux
3 17 (7.59%) Windows Server 2012
3 17 (7.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 16 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 14 (6.25%) Windows XP
6 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.89%) Android
7 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Unix
8 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.68%) Project Delivery
2 55 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (22.32%) Agile
4 38 (16.96%) PRINCE2
5 35 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (11.61%) ITIL
8 23 (10.27%) Change Management
9 22 (9.82%) Decision-Making
10 21 (9.38%) Risk Management
11 19 (8.48%) Roadmaps
12 18 (8.04%) Business Analysis
13 17 (7.59%) Waterfall
14 16 (7.14%) Business Case
14 16 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (7.14%) Logistics
14 16 (7.14%) Migration
15 15 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (6.70%) Matrix Organization
15 15 (6.70%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.80%) SQL
3 2 (0.89%) Java
3 2 (0.89%) Python
4 1 (0.45%) Perl
4 1 (0.45%) R
4 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (26.79%) Degree
2 52 (23.21%) Security Cleared
3 37 (16.52%) DV Cleared
4 33 (14.73%) SC Cleared
5 25 (11.16%) PMI Certification
6 15 (6.70%) CCNA
6 15 (6.70%) CCNP
6 15 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (6.70%) PMP
7 6 (2.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (2.23%) APMP
8 5 (2.23%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.79%) CISM
9 4 (1.79%) CISSP
9 4 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (1.34%) ISEB
11 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.89%) MBA
11 2 (0.89%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.29%) PMO
2 16 (7.14%) QA
3 7 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.79%) GDPR
5 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.34%) SLA
6 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.45%) ITGC
7 1 (0.45%) P3O
System Software
1 17 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 14 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) Docker
4 1 (0.45%) NFS
4 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (7.59%) SCCM
2 14 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (6.25%) NetBackup
2 14 (6.25%) SCOM
2 14 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 14 (6.25%) WSUS
3 3 (1.34%) Ansible
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.89%) Grafana
4 2 (0.89%) Graylog
4 2 (0.89%) Nagios
4 2 (0.89%) PaperCut
4 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.89%) Terraform
5 1 (0.45%) CFEngine
5 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
5 1 (0.45%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 42 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.48%) Cisco
3 17 (7.59%) VMware
4 16 (7.14%) HP
4 16 (7.14%) Juniper
4 16 (7.14%) Oracle
4 16 (7.14%) Veeam
5 15 (6.70%) EMC
6 14 (6.25%) 3PAR
6 14 (6.25%) Dell
6 14 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 14 (6.25%) Symantec
7 10 (4.46%) SAP
8 5 (2.23%) IFS
8 5 (2.23%) Reuters
9 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.34%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.34%) Siemens
11 2 (0.89%) Sage