Portfolio Management Contracts

Portfolio Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Portfolio Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 443 501
Rank change year-on-year +37 +58 -100
Contract jobs citing Portfolio Management 195 293 395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.54% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 212 264
10th Percentile £407 £369 £400
25th Percentile £464 £455 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% +0.83% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% - -
75th Percentile £36.44 £54.69 -
90th Percentile £49.38 £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -18.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Portfolio 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Portfolio Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Portfolio Management.

Daily rate trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Portfolio Management.

Hourly rate trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Portfolio Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +38 172 £575 -5.74% 153
UK excluding London +76 95 £575 +9.52% 46
London -2 85 £550 -12.00% 104
Work from Home +92 62 £575 -8.00% 56
South East +23 35 £600 - 19
North of England +40 24 £575 +15.00% 11
Scotland +41 15 £440 -2.22% 1
Midlands +25 15 £710 +45.64% 5
West Midlands +35 13 £710 +7.17% 1
Yorkshire +23 12 £575 +27.78% 4
North West +17 9 £538 -2.27% 6
North East - 7 £575 - 1
East of England +17 4 £700 +36.59% 8
South West +17 2 £402 +4.42% 3
East Midlands +13 1 £900 +89.47% 4

Portfolio Management
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 6 (3.08%) SAS
1 6 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Primavera
2 12 (6.15%) Aladdin
2 12 (6.15%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.54%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (1.03%) SAP MDG
5 2 (1.03%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.51%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.77%) AWS
2 15 (7.69%) OCI
2 15 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 12 (6.15%) Azure
4 9 (4.62%) Oracle CX
4 9 (4.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 5 (2.56%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.05%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.03%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.51%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.51%) Miro
9 1 (0.51%) NuGet
9 1 (0.51%) PaaS
9 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.54%) Firewall
1 3 (1.54%) LAN
1 3 (1.54%) SD-WAN
1 3 (1.54%) WAN
1 3 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.18%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (6.15%) Power BI
3 3 (1.54%) Metadata
4 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.03%) Tableau
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (0.51%) Dremio
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.51%) Power Query
5 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.67%) JIRA
2 5 (2.56%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.03%) webpack
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 80 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 78 (40.00%) Finance
3 28 (14.36%) Banking
4 26 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.23%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (7.18%) Front Office
8 13 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (6.15%) Retail
10 11 (5.64%) Aviation
10 11 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (5.13%) Telecoms
12 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.56%) Billing
13 5 (2.56%) Dutch Language
13 5 (2.56%) German Language
14 4 (2.05%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.54%) General Ledger
15 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (20.51%) Analyst
2 32 (16.41%) Senior
3 19 (9.74%) Lead
4 17 (8.72%) Business Analyst
4 17 (8.72%) Project Manager
5 15 (7.69%) Portfolio Manager
6 14 (7.18%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (6.67%) Architect
7 13 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
8 12 (6.15%) Finance Business Analyst
8 12 (6.15%) Financial Analyst
8 12 (6.15%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 9 (4.62%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.10%) Consultant
10 8 (4.10%) Data Analyst
10 8 (4.10%) Developer
11 6 (3.08%) Project Leader
12 5 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
13 4 (2.05%) Data Architect
13 4 (2.05%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.08%) React
1 6 (3.08%) Redux
2 4 (2.05%) .NET
2 4 (2.05%) .NET Framework
2 4 (2.05%) Angular 2
2 4 (2.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.05%) Blazor
2 4 (2.05%) Entity Framework
2 4 (2.05%) HTML
2 4 (2.05%) HTML5
3 2 (1.03%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.03%) Node.js
3 2 (1.03%) NumPy
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.03%) Pandas
3 2 (1.03%) RESTful
4 1 (0.51%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.51%) REST
4 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.18%) Hedge funds
3 13 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 13 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 12 (6.15%) Derivative
4 12 (6.15%) Equities
4 12 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.05%) Replication
7 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.54%) FMCG
7 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.54%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.03%) Life Science
8 2 (1.03%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.64%) Agile
2 47 (24.10%) Project Management
3 36 (18.46%) Project Delivery
4 30 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (13.85%) Asset Management
5 27 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (13.85%) Programme Management
5 27 (13.85%) Roadmaps
6 26 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (11.79%) PRINCE2
7 23 (11.79%) Risk Management
8 22 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (9.23%) Analytics
10 17 (8.72%) Investment Management
11 16 (8.21%) Business Strategy
11 16 (8.21%) Change Management
12 15 (7.69%) ERP
13 14 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence
14 13 (6.67%) Business Analysis
14 13 (6.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.85%) SQL
2 19 (9.74%) Python
3 5 (2.56%) C#
4 3 (1.54%) MATLAB
4 3 (1.54%) VBA
5 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.51%) Bicep
6 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (21.03%) Degree
2 33 (16.92%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.72%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.18%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.10%) PMI Certification
6 8 (4.10%) PMP
7 7 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) CFA
8 3 (1.54%) MBA
8 3 (1.54%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.51%) APMP
10 1 (0.51%) CISM
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.38%) PMO
2 6 (3.08%) IFRS
2 6 (3.08%) IFRS 9
3 4 (2.05%) QA
4 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.03%) P3O
4 2 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.26%) Oracle
3 12 (6.15%) Bloomberg
3 12 (6.15%) SAP
4 11 (5.64%) BISAM
5 4 (2.05%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.05%) Sparx
6 3 (1.54%) Cadence
6 3 (1.54%) Cisco
6 3 (1.54%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.54%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.54%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) Charles River
8 1 (0.51%) Planview