Portfolio Project Manager Contracts

Portfolio Project Manager
UK

The median Portfolio Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 - 855
Rank change year-on-year - - -185
Contract jobs requiring a Portfolio Project Manager 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £525 - £521
25th Percentile £550 - £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £607
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.69%
75th Percentile £650 - £702
90th Percentile £688 - £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £673
% change year-on-year - - +20.61%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Portfolio Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Portfolio Project Manager in the UK

Portfolio Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Portfolio Project Manager in the UK

Portfolio Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Portfolio Project Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Portfolio Project Manager in the UK

Portfolio Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Portfolio Project Manager in the UK

Portfolio Project Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Portfolio Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 - 5 £550 - 1
London - 4 £550 -
Work from Home - 3 £550 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £700 - 1
North of England - 1 £700 -
North West - 1 £700 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Portfolio 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 Portfolio Project Manager in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 2 (28.57%) PMO
3 2 (28.57%) Order Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) CISA
4 1 (14.29%) CISM
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) MBA
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Business Development
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security

Portfolio 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
1 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Order Management
1 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Application Security
2 1 (14.29%) Business Case
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Coaching
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Pricing Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Management
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISA
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) FFIEC
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft