IT Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 215 193
Rank change year-on-year -54 -22 +75
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 127 257 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.10% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.16% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 209 344
10th Percentile £361 £384 £363
25th Percentile £416 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +3.38% +20.00%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £538
90th Percentile £589 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £31.43
25th Percentile £23.63 - £38.06
Median hourly rate £25.28 £65.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -61.12% +25.60% -14.73%
75th Percentile £46.00 - £68.06
90th Percentile £54.40 - £76.28
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -31.20% +21.36% +18.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +3 32 £459 -16.59% 11
South East -1 32 £523 +0.48% 14
Midlands +1 27 £500 - 11
West Midlands -2 26 £507 +1.40% 8
South West +11 25 £475 -7.32% 8
North West +4 17 £525 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire -1 10 £410 -25.45% 2
Scotland +11 7 £488 -2.01% 3
North East - 4 £525 - 1
Wales - 3 £456 -
East Midlands +14 1 £500 - 3
East of England -5 1 £500 -4.76% 3
IT Project Manager
UK

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, IT 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 69 (54.33%) Project Management
2 45 (35.43%) Social Skills
3 34 (26.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (25.98%) PRINCE2
5 26 (20.47%) Project Delivery
6 25 (19.69%) Agile
7 21 (16.54%) Finance
8 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
8 15 (11.81%) Budget Management
9 14 (11.02%) Project Planning
10 13 (10.24%) Migration
10 13 (10.24%) ITIL
11 12 (9.45%) Change Management
12 11 (8.66%) Waterfall
13 10 (7.87%) Risk Management
13 10 (7.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 10 (7.87%) Manufacturing
14 9 (7.09%) Supplier Management
14 9 (7.09%) PMP
14 9 (7.09%) PMI Certification
14 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
14 9 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (6.30%) Decision-Making
15 8 (6.30%) Business Case
15 8 (6.30%) Degree
15 8 (6.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 7 (5.51%) Matrix Management
16 7 (5.51%) Legal
16 7 (5.51%) Windows
16 7 (5.51%) Presentation Skills

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.15%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.15%) Azure
1 4 (3.15%) SaaS
2 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.79%) AWS
3 1 (0.79%) Slack
3 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) WAN
2 2 (1.57%) Firewall
2 2 (1.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) Intranet
3 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) JIRA
General
1 45 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.54%) Finance
3 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.87%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.51%) Legal
5 7 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Retail
7 5 (3.94%) Automotive
8 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.36%) Law
9 3 (2.36%) Local Government
10 2 (1.57%) Back Office
10 2 (1.57%) Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.79%) Military
11 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) Middleware
1 1 (0.79%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.94%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.36%) FMCG
3 3 (2.36%) NHS
4 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Contactless
5 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.79%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.79%) Life Science
5 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.79%) PMI
5 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.79%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.51%) Windows
2 2 (1.57%) Unix
2 2 (1.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (54.33%) Project Management
2 34 (26.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (25.98%) PRINCE2
4 26 (20.47%) Project Delivery
5 25 (19.69%) Agile
6 15 (11.81%) Budget Management
7 14 (11.02%) Project Planning
8 13 (10.24%) ITIL
8 13 (10.24%) Migration
9 12 (9.45%) Change Management
10 11 (8.66%) Waterfall
11 10 (7.87%) Risk Management
12 9 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (7.09%) Supplier Management
13 8 (6.30%) Business Case
13 8 (6.30%) Decision-Making
14 7 (5.51%) Matrix Management
14 7 (5.51%) Resource Allocation
15 6 (4.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (4.72%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (7.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 9 (7.09%) PMI Certification
2 9 (7.09%) PMP
2 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) Degree
3 8 (6.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 5 (3.94%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) CAPM
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.51%) PMO
2 2 (1.57%) QA
2 2 (1.57%) SLA
3 1 (0.79%) COBIT
3 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.79%) GAMP
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) GMP
3 1 (0.79%) GxP
3 1 (0.79%) PMBOK
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
1 6 (4.72%) SAP
2 3 (2.36%) Siemens
3 2 (1.57%) Cisco
3 2 (1.57%) Citrix
3 2 (1.57%) Remedy
4 1 (0.79%) Ariba
4 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.79%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.79%) Kronos
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle
4 1 (0.79%) Red Hat