Project Management Contracts

Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,305 4,284 6,904
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.76% 7.58% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 8.45% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,013 2,910 4,762
10th Percentile £312 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 140 209
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.47 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.54 £30.61 £21.10
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +22.31%
75th Percentile £48.88 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.30 £80.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year -22.20% +73.45% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project 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 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 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 +3 2,825 £525 -0.94% 3,275
UK excluding London 0 1,747 £500 - 2,512
London +3 1,237 £550 -4.35% 1,093
Work from Home +2 1,106 £517 +0.88% 1,471
South East -8 419 £481 -3.75% 744
North of England -2 344 £500 - 562
South West +9 325 £525 -4.55% 306
Midlands 0 211 £500 +4.17% 450
East of England +7 198 £525 +3.55% 274
North West -1 194 £510 +2.00% 323
Scotland -1 193 £450 - 180
West Midlands +1 164 £520 +9.47% 277
Yorkshire +10 122 £500 -5.66% 166
Wales +16 50 £528 -4.05% 66
East Midlands -6 46 £488 -2.50% 167
North East +11 30 £600 +50.00% 80
Northern Ireland -8 12 £435 -3.33% 22
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1

Project 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
1 172 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 96 (2.90%) Confluence
3 37 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (1.06%) CMS
5 13 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.33%) SAS
7 10 (0.30%) Drupal
8 7 (0.21%) Documentum
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) Apache
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.091%) IBM Notes
12 2 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.061%) nginx
12 2 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 217 (6.57%) Microsoft Office
2 216 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 153 (4.63%) Microsoft Project
4 137 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
6 42 (1.27%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.42%) Acrobat
9 11 (0.33%) Trello
10 8 (0.24%) Simulink
11 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.21%) InDesign
12 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
12 6 (0.18%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
14 3 (0.091%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.061%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 79 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.57%) Primavera
3 18 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 15 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.42%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
7 9 (0.27%) SAP HCM
7 9 (0.27%) Workfront
8 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.18%) iTrent
10 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
10 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 272 (8.23%) Azure
2 120 (3.63%) AWS
2 120 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
3 104 (3.15%) Power Platform
4 89 (2.69%) SaaS
5 75 (2.27%) GitHub
6 53 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
8 43 (1.30%) OCI
9 40 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
10 37 (1.12%) GCP
11 30 (0.91%) PaaS
12 25 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (0.76%) Slack
13 23 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 22 (0.67%) Google Workspace
15 19 (0.57%) WhatsApp
16 17 (0.51%) IaaS
16 17 (0.51%) OneDrive
17 16 (0.48%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.88%) Firewall
2 54 (1.63%) VPN
2 54 (1.63%) WAN
3 45 (1.36%) LAN
3 45 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
4 40 (1.21%) DNS
5 30 (0.91%) Intranet
6 28 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
7 26 (0.79%) DHCP
8 25 (0.76%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.64%) Network Security
9 21 (0.64%) SAN
10 18 (0.54%) Internet
10 18 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
10 18 (0.54%) Wireless
11 15 (0.45%) 4G
12 13 (0.39%) 3GPP
13 12 (0.36%) HTTP
13 12 (0.36%) LTE
13 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (2.81%) Power BI
2 43 (1.30%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (0.76%) MySQL
4 25 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 20 (0.61%) Tableau
6 18 (0.54%) Metadata
6 18 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.39%) GIS
8 11 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 10 (0.30%) Big Data
9 10 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 10 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.27%) EDMS
10 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 277 (8.38%) JIRA
2 37 (1.12%) Git
3 34 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.94%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.51%) Postman
7 16 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.39%) Subversion
9 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.27%) Travis CI
11 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) AppScan
12 6 (0.18%) Storybook
12 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
General
1 1,385 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 959 (29.02%) Finance
3 504 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 325 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 213 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
6 185 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
7 180 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
8 172 (5.20%) Manufacturing
9 168 (5.08%) Marketing
10 158 (4.78%) Banking
11 150 (4.54%) Legal
12 136 (4.11%) Telecoms
13 98 (2.97%) Retail
14 84 (2.54%) Local Government
15 81 (2.45%) Electronics
16 70 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 69 (2.09%) Aerospace
18 58 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 50 (1.51%) Law
20 39 (1.18%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,187 (35.92%) Project Manager
2 304 (9.20%) Analyst
3 282 (8.53%) Senior
4 268 (8.11%) Lead
5 180 (5.45%) Architect
6 171 (5.17%) Senior Manager
7 165 (4.99%) IT Manager
8 160 (4.84%) Business Analyst
9 131 (3.96%) Consultant
10 128 (3.87%) IT Project Manager
11 106 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
12 105 (3.18%) Senior Project Manager
13 94 (2.84%) Technical Manager
14 89 (2.69%) Developer
15 84 (2.54%) Programme Manager
16 70 (2.12%) Security Manager
17 67 (2.03%) Technical Project Manager
18 60 (1.82%) Infrastructure Manager
19 57 (1.72%) Change Manager
20 54 (1.63%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.88%) YAML
2 27 (0.82%) XML
3 26 (0.79%) React
4 22 (0.67%) .NET
4 22 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (0.51%) Vue
6 14 (0.42%) Laravel
6 14 (0.42%) Spring
7 13 (0.39%) AngularJS
8 12 (0.36%) EDI
8 12 (0.36%) JSON
9 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
10 10 (0.30%) ADO
10 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (0.27%) CSS
12 8 (0.24%) Playwright
12 8 (0.24%) Web Services
13 7 (0.21%) HTML
13 7 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 178 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 87 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 83 (2.51%) Data Centre
4 75 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 62 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (1.63%) PMI
7 47 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (1.15%) NHS
9 35 (1.06%) Analogue Electronics
10 33 (1.00%) Life Science
10 33 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 32 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 26 (0.79%) FMCG
14 24 (0.73%) Algorithms
14 24 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (0.61%) Social Media
16 19 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
17 17 (0.51%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 102 (3.09%) Windows
2 88 (2.66%) Linux
3 43 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 31 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.73%) zOS
6 19 (0.57%) Android
6 19 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.45%) Windows XP
9 14 (0.42%) Unix
9 14 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.12%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.061%) AIX
12 2 (0.061%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (31.35%) Agile
2 744 (22.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 669 (20.24%) Project Delivery
4 648 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
5 533 (16.13%) PRINCE2
6 413 (12.50%) Change Management
7 348 (10.53%) Risk Management
8 278 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 276 (8.35%) Decision-Making
10 267 (8.08%) Migration
11 254 (7.69%) Scrum
12 235 (7.11%) Waterfall
13 208 (6.29%) Programme Management
14 204 (6.17%) Project Planning
15 199 (6.02%) Business Case
16 194 (5.87%) DevOps
17 179 (5.42%) Roadmaps
18 176 (5.33%) ITIL
19 172 (5.20%) Analytics
20 168 (5.08%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (3.78%) SQL
2 107 (3.24%) Python
3 63 (1.91%) PowerShell
4 48 (1.45%) Java
5 43 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 27 (0.82%) C
7 24 (0.73%) Bash
8 21 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 20 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.57%) JCL
11 16 (0.48%) C#
12 15 (0.45%) REXX
13 13 (0.39%) PHP
14 10 (0.30%) Scala
15 9 (0.27%) R
16 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.21%) XPath
17 7 (0.21%) XQuery
18 6 (0.18%) C++
18 6 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 538 (16.28%) Degree
1 538 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 351 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 223 (6.75%) PMP
4 217 (6.57%) PMI Certification
5 160 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 77 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 65 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.72%) APMP
9 50 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 40 (1.21%) CISSP
13 37 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 34 (1.03%) CCNA
15 31 (0.94%) CCNP
15 31 (0.94%) CISM
16 21 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 16 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (10.23%) PMO
2 207 (6.26%) QA
3 50 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.27%) GDPR
6 29 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.79%) SLA
8 25 (0.76%) JSP 440
9 18 (0.54%) NIST
10 16 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.36%) GxP
12 11 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.30%) NCSC
13 10 (0.30%) P3O
14 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.24%) Basel III
15 8 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.21%) IFRS
17 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 60 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 42 (1.27%) Docker
3 30 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.61%) NFS
5 19 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
6 18 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.12%) ACF2
10 4 (0.12%) RACF
10 4 (0.12%) vSphere
11 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.091%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.061%) HDFS
12 2 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.061%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.061%) XenApp
12 2 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (1.69%) Ansible
2 44 (1.33%) Terraform
3 42 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 25 (0.76%) SCCM
6 23 (0.70%) Grafana
7 21 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.54%) Puppet
8 18 (0.54%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.51%) SCOM
10 15 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.45%) WSUS
11 14 (0.42%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.36%) Graylog
13 10 (0.30%) Kibana
13 10 (0.30%) logstash
14 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 518 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 288 (8.71%) SAP
3 129 (3.90%) Oracle
4 72 (2.18%) Cisco
5 61 (1.85%) Adobe
6 55 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 47 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.39%) Google
9 40 (1.21%) Dell
9 40 (1.21%) VMware
10 39 (1.18%) IBM
11 36 (1.09%) Juniper
12 33 (1.00%) Splunk
13 28 (0.85%) Ariba
14 24 (0.73%) Broadcom
15 23 (0.70%) CA
16 20 (0.61%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.57%) Atlassian
17 19 (0.57%) Brocade
18 18 (0.54%) Veeam