IT Project Manager Contracts

IT Project Manager
UK

The median IT Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 311 271
Rank change year-on-year -42 -40 +100
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 235 488 879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.84% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.89% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 376 671
10th Percentile £370 £363 £380
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £594 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile - - £34.20
25th Percentile £23.63 £61.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +21.36% +18.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £64.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.00 £64.75 £73.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.28 £65.00 £51.75
% change year-on-year -61.12% +25.60% -14.73%

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
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% +10.53%
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 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £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%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager.

Hourly rate trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Project Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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 -40 214 £525 -2.33% 65
UK excluding London -45 127 £500 - 53
London +20 93 £600 +9.09% 12
Work from Home -12 82 £525 +5.00% 32
South East -3 33 £525 +1.94% 14
North of England +9 31 £463 -15.91% 14
Midlands -8 27 £500 +2.56% 14
West Midlands -6 26 £507 +4.00% 11
South West +14 25 £475 -7.32% 6
North West +14 17 £525 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire -2 9 £450 -18.18% 4
Scotland +9 7 £488 -2.01% 3
North East - 4 £525 - 1
Wales - 3 £456 -
East Midlands +12 1 £500 - 3
East of England +1 1 £500 -6.98% 3

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 126 (53.62%) Project Management
2 72 (30.64%) Social Skills
3 68 (28.94%) Finance
4 56 (23.83%) Agile
5 53 (22.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (20.43%) PRINCE2
7 41 (17.45%) Project Delivery
8 26 (11.06%) Migration
9 22 (9.36%) Budget Management
10 19 (8.09%) Degree
10 19 (8.09%) Banking
10 19 (8.09%) Waterfall
10 19 (8.09%) Change Management
10 19 (8.09%) PMP
11 18 (7.66%) PMI Certification
11 18 (7.66%) Security Cleared
12 17 (7.23%) Azure
12 17 (7.23%) Project Planning
12 17 (7.23%) Risk Management
13 16 (6.81%) Public Sector
14 15 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (6.38%) Microsoft
14 15 (6.38%) JIRA
15 14 (5.96%) SC Cleared
15 14 (5.96%) ITIL
16 13 (5.53%) SAP
17 12 (5.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 12 (5.11%) Manufacturing
17 12 (5.11%) Programme Management
17 12 (5.11%) Resource Allocation

IT 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.55%) Confluence
3 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.43%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.43%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.23%) Azure
2 9 (3.83%) SaaS
3 5 (2.13%) WhatsApp
4 4 (1.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.85%) AWS
6 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.43%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.43%) Slack
7 1 (0.43%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) LAN
1 3 (1.28%) WAN
2 2 (0.85%) Broadband
2 2 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
3 1 (0.43%) Intranet
3 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.43%) Skype
3 1 (0.43%) SNMP
3 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.70%) Power BI
3 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.43%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.38%) JIRA
General
1 72 (30.64%) Social Skills
2 68 (28.94%) Finance
3 19 (8.09%) Banking
4 16 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.11%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.26%) Legal
8 8 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.55%) Law
10 6 (2.55%) Retail
11 5 (2.13%) Automotive
11 5 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.70%) Back Office
13 3 (1.28%) Dutch Language
13 3 (1.28%) German Language
13 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.28%) Local Government
13 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.43%) ADO
1 1 (0.43%) Express.js
1 1 (0.43%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.43%) Middleware
1 1 (0.43%) Node.js
1 1 (0.43%) React
1 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.40%) Data Centre
2 7 (2.98%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.70%) FMCG
4 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.70%) NHS
4 4 (1.70%) PMI
5 3 (1.28%) Life Science
5 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.85%) CMDB
6 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.43%) Derivative
7 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.43%) LIMS
7 1 (0.43%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.43%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Windows
2 3 (1.28%) Unix
2 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.43%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (53.62%) Project Management
2 56 (23.83%) Agile
3 53 (22.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (20.43%) PRINCE2
5 41 (17.45%) Project Delivery
6 26 (11.06%) Migration
7 22 (9.36%) Budget Management
8 19 (8.09%) Change Management
8 19 (8.09%) Waterfall
9 17 (7.23%) Project Planning
9 17 (7.23%) Risk Management
10 15 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (5.96%) ITIL
12 12 (5.11%) Programme Management
12 12 (5.11%) Resource Allocation
12 12 (5.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (4.68%) Decision-Making
13 11 (4.68%) ERP
14 10 (4.26%) Scrum
14 10 (4.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.43%) C#
1 1 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (8.09%) Degree
1 19 (8.09%) PMP
2 18 (7.66%) PMI Certification
2 18 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 8 (3.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) CAPM
10 1 (0.43%) CCNA
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.26%) PMO
2 7 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.70%) NIST
4 3 (1.28%) EMIR
4 3 (1.28%) GxP
4 3 (1.28%) QA
5 2 (0.85%) Basel III
5 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) GRC
5 2 (0.85%) MiFID
5 2 (0.85%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) COBIT
6 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.43%) GAMP
6 1 (0.43%) IFRS
6 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.43%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) Matomo
1 1 (0.43%) SafeCom
1 1 (0.43%) SCCM
1 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.53%) SAP
3 6 (2.55%) Cisco
4 3 (1.28%) Siemens
5 2 (0.85%) Ariba
5 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.85%) Citrix
5 2 (0.85%) Remedy
5 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.85%) Workday
6 1 (0.43%) Arista
6 1 (0.43%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.43%) Concur
6 1 (0.43%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.43%) Kronos
6 1 (0.43%) Meraki
6 1 (0.43%) Pega
6 1 (0.43%) Radianz
6 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv