Project Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,765 1,988 2,919
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.28% 8.76% 9.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.01% 9.84% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 1,370 2,111
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £401 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £654 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 94 110
10th Percentile £18.34 £22.72 -
25th Percentile £27.00 £30.72 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £46.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +70.00% +7.42%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.75 £37.43
90th Percentile £60.38 £78.50 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £32.40
% change year-on-year -21.40% +49.69% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -8 442 £475 -5.00% 471
North of England -1 348 £513 +2.50% 566
South West +5 306 £525 -2.33% 324
Midlands -1 213 £500 +4.17% 442
East of England +7 207 £525 +5.00% 226
North West -1 205 £500 - 332
Scotland +2 187 £450 -2.70% 141
West Midlands -1 161 £520 +9.47% 282
Yorkshire +5 108 £506 -4.48% 163
Wales +18 51 £528 -4.05% 50
East Midlands -7 51 £475 -5.00% 160
North East +11 37 £590 +47.50% 76
Northern Ireland -9 17 £170 -62.22% 19
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 2
South Coast - 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 81 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.48%) Confluence
3 8 (0.45%) Documentum
4 7 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.40%) SAS
5 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
7 3 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.057%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.057%) Appian
9 1 (0.057%) CICS
9 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.057%) EPiServer
Applications
1 134 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
4 73 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.62%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.45%) Simulink
9 6 (0.34%) Trello
10 5 (0.28%) Stateflow
10 5 (0.28%) TargetLink
11 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.23%) Revit
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.11%) Lectora
13 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 33 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) Primavera
3 12 (0.68%) SAP ERP
4 11 (0.62%) SAP Payroll
5 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
6 6 (0.34%) iTrent
6 6 (0.34%) SAP HCM
6 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
7 4 (0.23%) SAP PS
7 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
7 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.17%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.11%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 132 (7.48%) Azure
2 53 (3.00%) Power Platform
3 51 (2.89%) AWS
4 48 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (1.98%) GitHub
6 29 (1.64%) SaaS
7 25 (1.42%) OCI
8 24 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
10 21 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.08%) GCP
12 15 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.79%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.68%) PaaS
15 9 (0.51%) Kong
15 9 (0.51%) Slack
16 8 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.45%) Canva
16 8 (0.45%) Smartsheet
16 8 (0.45%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.61%) VPN
2 44 (2.49%) Firewall
3 35 (1.98%) WAN
4 33 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (1.81%) LAN
6 31 (1.76%) DNS
7 25 (1.42%) Intranet
8 19 (1.08%) DHCP
8 19 (1.08%) Radio Access Network
8 19 (1.08%) SAN
8 19 (1.08%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.79%) 4G
9 14 (0.79%) Wireless
10 13 (0.74%) HTTP
10 13 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
11 12 (0.68%) 3GPP
11 12 (0.68%) LTE
11 12 (0.68%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.57%) Internet
13 9 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.72%) Power BI
2 20 (1.13%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.08%) MySQL
4 15 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 10 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.45%) EDMS
6 8 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.23%) DB2
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.17%) Metadata
12 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database 11g
12 2 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 176 (9.97%) JIRA
2 22 (1.25%) Git
3 21 (1.19%) GitLab
4 18 (1.02%) Cypress.io
5 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 14 (0.79%) Postman
7 13 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.51%) Subversion
8 9 (0.51%) Travis CI
9 7 (0.40%) Storybook
10 5 (0.28%) AppScan
10 5 (0.28%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) Selenium
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.17%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.11%) JMeter
General
1 785 (44.48%) Social Skills
2 488 (27.65%) Finance
3 256 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 147 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 130 (7.37%) Manufacturing
7 126 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
8 87 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
9 80 (4.53%) Telecoms
10 66 (3.74%) Marketing
11 65 (3.68%) Aerospace
11 65 (3.68%) Legal
12 61 (3.46%) Electronics
13 47 (2.66%) Local Government
14 45 (2.55%) Banking
15 38 (2.15%) Retail
16 31 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 29 (1.64%) Automotive
19 25 (1.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 612 (34.67%) Project Manager
2 163 (9.24%) Analyst
3 160 (9.07%) Senior
4 142 (8.05%) Lead
5 136 (7.71%) Architect
6 92 (5.21%) Senior Manager
7 87 (4.93%) IT Manager
8 67 (3.80%) Business Analyst
8 67 (3.80%) IT Project Manager
9 59 (3.34%) Senior Project Manager
10 52 (2.95%) Developer
11 45 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
12 43 (2.44%) Technical Manager
13 42 (2.38%) Consultant
14 37 (2.10%) Coordinator
15 36 (2.04%) Project Leader
16 35 (1.98%) Test Architect
17 33 (1.87%) Technical Project Manager
18 32 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
19 31 (1.76%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (0.85%) .NET
2 15 (0.85%) React
2 15 (0.85%) YAML
3 13 (0.74%) Vue
4 12 (0.68%) JSON
5 11 (0.62%) Laravel
6 10 (0.57%) XML
7 9 (0.51%) Playwright
8 7 (0.40%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.40%) REST
9 6 (0.34%) Kafka
9 6 (0.34%) Spring
10 5 (0.28%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.23%) BAPI
11 4 (0.23%) Middleware
11 4 (0.23%) ModSecurity
11 4 (0.23%) RESTful
11 4 (0.23%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.25%) Management Information System
2 51 (2.89%) Product Ownership
3 44 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 37 (2.10%) Analogue Electronics
5 33 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.47%) PMI
8 22 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.25%) Life Science
8 22 (1.25%) NHS
8 22 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 16 (0.91%) Driving Licence
12 14 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.68%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.00%) Windows
2 51 (2.89%) Linux
3 34 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (0.79%) Windows XP
8 10 (0.57%) Android
9 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.34%) Unix
11 5 (0.28%) zOS
12 2 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.057%) Solaris
13 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (28.90%) Agile
2 450 (25.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 359 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
4 357 (20.23%) Project Delivery
5 292 (16.54%) PRINCE2
6 214 (12.12%) Change Management
7 161 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (9.07%) Risk Management
9 133 (7.54%) Decision-Making
10 130 (7.37%) Project Planning
11 124 (7.03%) Waterfall
12 99 (5.61%) Migration
13 97 (5.50%) Scrum
14 95 (5.38%) ITIL
15 94 (5.33%) Roadmaps
16 93 (5.27%) ERP
17 92 (5.21%) Business Case
17 92 (5.21%) DevOps
18 90 (5.10%) Collaborative Working
19 88 (4.99%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (3.29%) SQL
2 50 (2.83%) Python
3 41 (2.32%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.25%) C
5 21 (1.19%) Java
6 19 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.96%) Bash
8 12 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.62%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.51%) PHP
11 8 (0.45%) C++
11 8 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.28%) C#
13 4 (0.23%) ABAP
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.17%) REXX
14 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 362 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 277 (15.69%) Degree
3 224 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 118 (6.69%) DV Cleared
5 106 (6.01%) PMP
6 100 (5.67%) PMI Certification
7 40 (2.27%) APMP
8 36 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 33 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 31 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.42%) CCNP
12 25 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 24 (1.36%) CCNA
14 18 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (0.74%) ISEB
16 11 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.57%) CIPD
17 10 (0.57%) HNC
18 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (11.33%) PMO
2 91 (5.16%) QA
3 24 (1.36%) GDPR
4 19 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.08%) JSP 440
5 14 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 9 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.51%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.45%) GxP
7 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.45%) SLA
8 6 (0.34%) GAMP
8 6 (0.34%) ISO 26262
8 6 (0.34%) NIST
9 5 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
9 5 (0.28%) GMP
9 5 (0.28%) MISRA
9 5 (0.28%) MISRA C
9 5 (0.28%) NEBOSH
9 5 (0.28%) PMBOK
System Software
1 37 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.25%) Docker
4 18 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.28%) NFS
7 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.057%) ACF2
10 1 (0.057%) iptables
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.057%) RACF
10 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 29 (1.64%) Ansible
2 24 (1.36%) Terraform
3 23 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.08%) SCCM
5 18 (1.02%) Grafana
5 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 16 (0.91%) SCOM
7 15 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (0.85%) Puppet
8 14 (0.79%) NetBackup
8 14 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.79%) WSUS
9 10 (0.57%) Kibana
9 10 (0.57%) logstash
10 9 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.51%) Graylog
10 9 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 263 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.03%) SAP
3 51 (2.89%) Cisco
4 49 (2.78%) Oracle
5 35 (1.98%) Juniper
6 29 (1.64%) VMware
7 28 (1.59%) Adobe
8 19 (1.08%) Splunk
9 18 (1.02%) Dell
10 17 (0.96%) EMC
10 17 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 16 (0.91%) Extreme Networks
11 16 (0.91%) HP
11 16 (0.91%) IBM
11 16 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 15 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.79%) 3PAR
13 14 (0.79%) Symantec
13 14 (0.79%) Veeam
14 13 (0.74%) ServiceNow