Project Manager Contracts in Wales

Project Manager
UK > Wales

The median Project Manager daily rate in Wales is £515 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 39 40 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 9.73% 6.34% 9.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.92% 6.67% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 39 75
10th Percentile £408 £360 £266
25th Percentile £463 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% -8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £530 £531 £538
90th Percentile £588 £550 £589
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.03 - £29.00
Median hourly rate £11.64 - £30.00
75th Percentile £12.25 - £31.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.33 £65.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -44.10% +27.45% +72.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 357 600 977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.03% 95.09% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 465 717
10th Percentile £188 £166 £178
25th Percentile £350 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 40
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.25 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.06 £15.25 £12.81
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.58%
75th Percentile £31.02 £19.98 £27.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £45.75 £46.93
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Wales

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Wales

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Wales

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Wales

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Wales region 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
South Wales +20 33 £513 +24.24% 8
Dyfed - 1 £450 -
Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 across the Wales region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 22 (56.41%) Agile
2 19 (48.72%) Project Management
2 19 (48.72%) Scrum
3 18 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (46.15%) Degree
4 17 (43.59%) Atlassian
4 17 (43.59%) SDLC
4 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
5 14 (35.90%) Azure
5 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
5 14 (35.90%) Migration
6 11 (28.21%) PHP
6 11 (28.21%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (28.21%) Containerisation
6 11 (28.21%) GitHub
6 11 (28.21%) Argo
7 10 (25.64%) Project Governance
7 10 (25.64%) MySQL
8 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (23.08%) JIRA
8 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
11 6 (15.38%) Project Delivery
11 6 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (15.38%) Kanban
12 4 (10.26%) Finance
12 4 (10.26%) Change Management
13 3 (7.69%) PRINCE2
13 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) GitHub
2 11 (28.21%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) .NET
1 1 (2.56%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Agile
2 19 (48.72%) Project Management
2 19 (48.72%) Scrum
3 17 (43.59%) SDLC
4 14 (35.90%) Migration
5 11 (28.21%) Containerisation
6 10 (25.64%) Project Governance
7 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
8 6 (15.38%) Kanban
8 6 (15.38%) Project Delivery
9 4 (10.26%) Change Management
10 3 (7.69%) Analytics
10 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (7.69%) Data Analytics
10 3 (7.69%) PRINCE2
11 2 (5.13%) Budgeting
11 2 (5.13%) Decision-Making
11 2 (5.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.13%) PMP
3 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Atlassian
2 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) Progress
4 1 (2.56%) Ariba
4 1 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.56%) Citrix
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) SAP