Financial Services Project Manager Contracts

Project Manager - Financial Services
UK

The median Project Manager - Financial Services daily rate in the UK is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 647 653
Rank change year-on-year +90 +6 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Services Project Manager 30 59 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 56 102
10th Percentile £411 £513 £463
25th Percentile £550 £544 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% +12.68%
75th Percentile £697 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Financial Services Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Services Project Manager in the UK

Financial Services Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Services Project Manager in the UK

Financial Services Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Services Project Manager over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Services Project Manager in the UK

Financial Services Project Manager
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Services Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +86 27 £675 +8.00% 1
London +63 21 £675 +8.00% 1
Work from Home +107 16 £675 +3.85% 1
UK excluding London +57 5 £700 +12.00%
North West +29 2 £700 +40.00%
Midlands +26 2 £513 -6.82%
North of England +25 2 £700 +40.00%
West Midlands +23 2 £513 -6.82%
South East +14 1 £775 +21.57%

Financial Services Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Financial Services 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 featuring Financial Services Project Manager in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Finance
2 13 (43.33%) Banking
3 8 (26.67%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (23.33%) Project Management
4 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (20.00%) BT
5 6 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
7 4 (13.33%) Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Cisco
7 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
8 3 (10.00%) Wealth Management
8 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 3 (10.00%) Change Management
8 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
9 2 (6.67%) PMO
9 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
9 2 (6.67%) Data Security
9 2 (6.67%) Temenos
9 2 (6.67%) Windows
9 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (6.67%) Data Modelling
9 2 (6.67%) ETL
9 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (6.67%) SaaS
9 2 (6.67%) Waterfall

Financial Services Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) SaaS
1 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 30 (100.00%) Finance
2 13 (43.33%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Agile
1 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (23.33%) Project Management
3 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (13.33%) Migration
4 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (10.00%) Change Management
4 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.00%) Wealth Management
5 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (6.67%) Data Security
5 2 (6.67%) ETL
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Waterfall
6 1 (3.33%) High Availability
6 1 (3.33%) Machine Learning
6 1 (3.33%) Project Governance
6 1 (3.33%) Supplier Management
6 1 (3.33%) Time Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) BT
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Temenos
4 1 (3.33%) Meraki
4 1 (3.33%) Planview