Project Management Contracts in Wales

Project Management
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 59 54 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 14.68% 8.52% 8.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.55% 9.89% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 65
10th Percentile £437 £368 £200
25th Percentile £489 £395 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £463 £452
Median % change year-on-year +14.59% +2.32% -4.84%
75th Percentile £625 £565 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £46.75 - -
25th Percentile £85.00 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £87.80 £32.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +170.15% +60.57% +15.66%
75th Percentile - £33.75 -
90th Percentile £87.92 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year -22.20% +44.54% +26.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 546 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.10% 86.12% 83.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 421 615
10th Percentile £173 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 29 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.04% -27.44% +29.87%
75th Percentile £51.75 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.00 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Wales

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Wales

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Wales

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Wales

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Wales

Project Management
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 Management within the Wales region 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
South Wales +13 54 £540 +20.00% 44
Dyfed - 1 £450 -
Project Management
UK

Project Management
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 12 (20.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Acrobat
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) iTrent
2 2 (3.39%) SAP HCM
2 2 (3.39%) SAP HR
2 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.51%) GitHub
2 12 (20.34%) Azure
3 10 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (13.56%) AWS
5 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.39%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.69%) GCP
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Firewall
1 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) MySQL
2 8 (13.56%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Cypress.io
2 10 (16.95%) Postman
3 8 (13.56%) GitLab
4 7 (11.86%) JIRA
5 5 (8.47%) Storybook
6 1 (1.69%) AppScan
6 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.69%) Git
6 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.69%) Subversion
6 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Local Government
3 11 (18.64%) Marketing
4 7 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.47%) Finance
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.78%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.69%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Project Manager
2 11 (18.64%) Bid Manager
2 11 (18.64%) Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
3 9 (15.25%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (15.25%) Senior Manager
4 6 (10.17%) PHP Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Agile Project Manager
5 5 (8.47%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Software Project Manager
6 4 (6.78%) DBA
6 4 (6.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.08%) Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Development Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Development Project Manager
7 3 (5.08%) MySQL DBA
7 3 (5.08%) Software Development Project Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) Vue
2 9 (15.25%) Laravel
3 7 (11.86%) Playwright
4 6 (10.17%) React
5 4 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.39%) PySpark
7 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.47%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) NHS
4 1 (1.69%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Agile
2 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (28.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.12%) Test Automation
5 15 (25.42%) PRINCE2
6 13 (22.03%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (22.03%) Value Proposition
7 12 (20.34%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (20.34%) Scrum
8 11 (18.64%) Risk Management
9 10 (16.95%) Analytics
9 10 (16.95%) Psychology
10 9 (15.25%) Critical Thinking
10 9 (15.25%) Project Governance
11 8 (13.56%) Data Analytics
11 8 (13.56%) Kanban
11 8 (13.56%) SDLC
12 7 (11.86%) Full Stack Development
12 7 (11.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.25%) PHP
2 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.08%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) SQL
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Degree
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) PMI Certification
3 13 (22.03%) PMP
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (33.90%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) PMO
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Ansible
1 4 (6.78%) Grafana
1 4 (6.78%) Graylog
1 4 (6.78%) Nagios
1 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
1 4 (6.78%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) Argo
3 1 (1.69%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.69%) Nessus
3 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
3 1 (1.69%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 29 (49.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.64%) Adobe
3 8 (13.56%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.78%) Splunk
5 3 (5.08%) SAP
6 2 (3.39%) Progress
7 1 (1.69%) Ariba
7 1 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco
7 1 (1.69%) EMC
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.69%) Veracode
7 1 (1.69%) Zscaler