Project Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,757 2,097 2,891
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.56% 8.92% 9.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.13% 9.96% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 1,422 2,105
10th Percentile £313 £300 £291
25th Percentile £406 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 109 99
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.22 -
25th Percentile £27.56 £30.54 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +78.18% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £39.75
90th Percentile £61.25 £80.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
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 Project Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -6 418 £495 -1.00% 532
North of England -1 346 £500 - 509
South West +7 322 £525 -4.55% 297
Midlands -4 207 £510 +2.00% 431
East of England +6 204 £525 +5.00% 225
Scotland +4 204 £450 - 155
North West 0 193 £500 - 313
West Midlands +3 161 £525 +5.00% 279
Yorkshire +9 125 £500 -4.76% 154
Wales +15 54 £530 +0.95% 58
East Midlands -6 45 £488 +2.09% 152
North East +17 30 £600 +55.84% 49
Northern Ireland -6 11 £435 -3.33% 23
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1
Project Management
UK

Project Management
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 80 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.64%) Confluence
3 8 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.46%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Documentum
6 3 (0.17%) Apache
7 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
7 2 (0.11%) nginx
7 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.057%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.057%) CICS
8 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.057%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 136 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (5.18%) Microsoft Project
4 76 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.63%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.46%) Simulink
9 5 (0.28%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.28%) TargetLink
10 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.17%) Revit
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.11%) Lectora
13 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.85%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HCM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HR
3 7 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 6 (0.34%) iTrent
5 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.23%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
6 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP PS
6 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
6 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.17%) Aareon QL
7 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 133 (7.57%) Azure
2 57 (3.24%) Power Platform
3 56 (3.19%) AWS
4 51 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (2.22%) GitHub
6 30 (1.71%) OCI
7 27 (1.54%) SaaS
8 24 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
11 14 (0.80%) GCP
12 13 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (0.74%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (0.51%) Slack
14 8 (0.46%) Canva
14 8 (0.46%) Smartsheet
14 8 (0.46%) Yammer
15 7 (0.40%) Apigee
15 7 (0.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.73%) Firewall
2 43 (2.45%) VPN
3 35 (1.99%) WAN
3 35 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
4 33 (1.88%) DNS
4 33 (1.88%) LAN
5 26 (1.48%) Intranet
6 24 (1.37%) DHCP
7 20 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
7 20 (1.14%) SAN
8 18 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.97%) 4G
9 17 (0.97%) Wireless
10 16 (0.91%) Network Security
11 13 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (0.68%) 3GPP
12 12 (0.68%) LTE
12 12 (0.68%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.46%) HTTP
13 8 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (2.90%) Power BI
2 21 (1.20%) MySQL
3 20 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.97%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.28%) EDMS
8 5 (0.28%) Tableau
9 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.23%) DB2
9 4 (0.23%) Metadata
9 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.11%) MS Access
11 2 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 162 (9.22%) JIRA
2 23 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.08%) GitLab
4 17 (0.97%) Git
5 16 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 14 (0.80%) Postman
7 10 (0.57%) Subversion
8 9 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.34%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.34%) Travis CI
10 5 (0.28%) AppScan
10 5 (0.28%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.28%) Storybook
11 4 (0.23%) Selenium
12 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.11%) JMeter
13 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 775 (44.11%) Social Skills
2 500 (28.46%) Finance
3 258 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (12.58%) Public Sector
5 151 (8.59%) Organisational Skills
6 123 (7.00%) Manufacturing
7 120 (6.83%) Influencing Skills
8 100 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
9 81 (4.61%) Telecoms
10 64 (3.64%) Legal
11 58 (3.30%) Aerospace
12 54 (3.07%) Electronics
13 51 (2.90%) Marketing
14 46 (2.62%) Banking
15 42 (2.39%) Retail
16 41 (2.33%) Local Government
16 41 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (1.59%) Automotive
18 26 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 25 (1.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 591 (33.64%) Project Manager
2 168 (9.56%) Lead
3 160 (9.11%) Analyst
4 158 (8.99%) Senior
5 127 (7.23%) Architect
6 93 (5.29%) Senior Manager
7 91 (5.18%) IT Manager
8 70 (3.98%) Business Analyst
9 69 (3.93%) IT Project Manager
10 54 (3.07%) Senior Project Manager
11 53 (3.02%) Developer
12 51 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
13 45 (2.56%) Technical Manager
14 38 (2.16%) Project Leader
15 34 (1.94%) Test Architect
16 33 (1.88%) Technical Project Manager
17 32 (1.82%) Consultant
18 31 (1.76%) SAP Manager
19 30 (1.71%) Infrastructure Manager
19 30 (1.71%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.25%) React
2 20 (1.14%) YAML
3 17 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (0.80%) AngularJS
5 12 (0.68%) .NET
5 12 (0.68%) Spring
6 11 (0.63%) Vue
7 9 (0.51%) JSON
7 9 (0.51%) Laravel
8 7 (0.40%) Playwright
8 7 (0.40%) XML
9 4 (0.23%) Kafka
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.17%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.17%) Middleware
10 3 (0.17%) ModSecurity
10 3 (0.17%) PySpark
10 3 (0.17%) REST
11 2 (0.11%) BAPI
11 2 (0.11%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.78%) Management Information System
2 51 (2.90%) Data Centre
2 51 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 38 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 32 (1.82%) Analogue Electronics
4 32 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (1.54%) PMI
6 25 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.31%) Life Science
7 23 (1.31%) NHS
8 21 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 20 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 17 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.85%) Driving Licence
12 14 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 13 (0.74%) PKI
14 10 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.57%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.70%) Windows
2 64 (3.64%) Linux
3 37 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (0.91%) zOS
8 14 (0.80%) Windows XP
9 11 (0.63%) Android
10 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.40%) Unix
11 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.11%) VMS
14 1 (0.057%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (30.34%) Agile
2 461 (26.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 355 (20.20%) Project Delivery
4 350 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (16.79%) PRINCE2
6 217 (12.35%) Change Management
7 156 (8.88%) Risk Management
8 150 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 134 (7.63%) Decision-Making
10 133 (7.57%) Project Planning
11 128 (7.29%) Waterfall
12 115 (6.55%) Business Case
13 107 (6.09%) Migration
14 98 (5.58%) DevOps
15 97 (5.52%) Collaborative Working
16 96 (5.46%) Programme Management
16 96 (5.46%) Scrum
17 91 (5.18%) ITIL
17 91 (5.18%) Roadmaps
18 84 (4.78%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 58 (3.30%) Python
2 52 (2.96%) SQL
3 39 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 31 (1.76%) Java
5 26 (1.48%) C
6 23 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.80%) Bash
7 14 (0.80%) JCL
8 12 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.63%) REXX
10 9 (0.51%) PHP
10 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.46%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.34%) Perl
13 5 (0.28%) C#
13 5 (0.28%) C++
14 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.17%) SystemVerilog
14 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 391 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 268 (15.25%) Degree
3 242 (13.77%) SC Cleared
4 127 (7.23%) DV Cleared
5 103 (5.86%) PMP
6 95 (5.41%) PMI Certification
7 44 (2.50%) APMP
8 35 (1.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 24 (1.37%) CCNA
13 23 (1.31%) CCNP
14 19 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (0.74%) ISEB
17 10 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.57%) HNC
17 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (11.61%) PMO
2 107 (6.09%) QA
3 26 (1.48%) JSP 440
4 23 (1.31%) GDPR
5 20 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
7 12 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.68%) SLA
8 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.40%) GxP
10 7 (0.40%) NIST
11 6 (0.34%) GAMP
11 6 (0.34%) ISO 26262
12 5 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
12 5 (0.28%) GMP
12 5 (0.28%) MISRA
12 5 (0.28%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.23%) P3O
13 4 (0.23%) PMBOK
System Software
1 44 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.97%) Docker
6 15 (0.85%) NFS
7 14 (0.80%) Time Sharing Option
8 5 (0.28%) vSphere
9 4 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.17%) KVM
10 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.057%) ACF2
12 1 (0.057%) iptables
12 1 (0.057%) RACF
12 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 33 (1.88%) Ansible
2 23 (1.31%) vCenter Server
3 22 (1.25%) SCCM
4 21 (1.20%) Terraform
5 20 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 18 (1.02%) Kubernetes
7 16 (0.91%) Grafana
7 16 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.91%) SCOM
8 15 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (0.80%) NetBackup
9 14 (0.80%) WSUS
10 12 (0.68%) Puppet
11 11 (0.63%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.57%) Graylog
13 7 (0.40%) Kibana
13 7 (0.40%) logstash
13 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 263 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 125 (7.11%) SAP
3 54 (3.07%) Oracle
4 49 (2.79%) Cisco
5 37 (2.11%) Juniper
6 34 (1.94%) VMware
7 29 (1.65%) Adobe
7 29 (1.65%) Dell
8 24 (1.37%) IBM
9 21 (1.20%) HP
10 18 (1.02%) EMC
11 17 (0.97%) CA
11 17 (0.97%) Palo Alto
11 17 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 17 (0.97%) Splunk
12 16 (0.91%) Ariba
12 16 (0.91%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (0.91%) Symantec
12 16 (0.91%) Veeam
13 15 (0.85%) Atlassian