Project Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Project Management
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 161 238 329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.34% 9.87% 9.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 11.16% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 157 266
10th Percentile £350 £259 £310
25th Percentile £431 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £549
90th Percentile £688 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 1
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.58 -
25th Percentile £15.13 £23.22 £22.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.01% +15.45% +5.76%
75th Percentile £56.88 £47.50 £24.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £79.00 -
England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.12
% change year-on-year -22.20% +47.95% +24.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 2,133 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.94% 88.43% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,463 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £401 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.66%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Birmingham +1 59 £525 +5.00% 85
Warwickshire +6 52 £575 +4.55% 45
Staffordshire +5 15 £425 -5.56% 29
Coventry +7 11 £600 +20.00% 20
Solihull -16 5 £325 -11.86% 6
Worcestershire +3 3 £275 -37.14% 13
Shropshire +35 1 - - 9
Walsall +3 1 £325 -7.14% 3
Herefordshire -7 1 - - 3
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.62%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.73%) Simulink
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.11%) Stateflow
3 5 (3.11%) TargetLink
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.62%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.48%) Primavera
3 1 (0.62%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.62%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.62%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.21%) Azure
2 5 (3.11%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.24%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.62%) AWS
5 1 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.62%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.62%) IaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.62%) PaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.62%) SaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) Network Security
2 4 (2.48%) Firewall
2 4 (2.48%) Intranet
2 4 (2.48%) VPN
3 3 (1.86%) LAN
3 3 (1.86%) WAN
4 2 (1.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.62%) DHCP
5 1 (0.62%) DNS
5 1 (0.62%) Junos
5 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.48%) Power BI
2 2 (1.24%) MS Access
3 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.62%) Metadata
3 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (3.73%) JIRA
2 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
2 5 (3.11%) Git
2 5 (3.11%) Subversion
General
1 70 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 49 (30.43%) Finance
3 33 (20.50%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.70%) Law
6 11 (6.83%) Telecoms
7 10 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (5.59%) Automotive
8 9 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.73%) Banking
10 5 (3.11%) Legal
10 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.48%) Retail
12 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.24%) Local Government
13 2 (1.24%) Marketing
14 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.62%) German Language
Job Titles
1 79 (49.07%) Project Manager
2 28 (17.39%) Senior
3 19 (11.80%) Analyst
4 12 (7.45%) IT Manager
4 12 (7.45%) Senior Manager
5 11 (6.83%) PMO Analyst
5 11 (6.83%) Senior Project Manager
6 10 (6.21%) IT Project Manager
6 10 (6.21%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (4.97%) Senior PMO
8 7 (4.35%) Architect
8 7 (4.35%) Lead
8 7 (4.35%) Security Manager
8 7 (4.35%) Security Project Manager
8 7 (4.35%) Senior PMO Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) AML Project Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Control Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 5 (3.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.62%) .NET
1 1 (0.62%) Ajax
1 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.62%) LDAP
1 1 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (0.62%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.73%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.73%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.11%) PMI
4 4 (2.48%) Housing Association
4 4 (2.48%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.86%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.24%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.62%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (25.47%) Agile
3 40 (24.84%) Project Delivery
4 31 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (12.42%) PRINCE2
6 18 (11.18%) Risk Management
7 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (10.56%) Resource Management
8 15 (9.32%) Change Management
9 14 (8.70%) Decision-Making
10 12 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (7.45%) ITIL
10 12 (7.45%) Migration
11 11 (6.83%) Business Case
11 11 (6.83%) Programme Management
11 11 (6.83%) Service Management
12 10 (6.21%) Business Strategy
12 10 (6.21%) Resource Allocation
13 9 (5.59%) Analytical Thinking
13 9 (5.59%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.73%) MATLAB
2 5 (3.11%) C
3 3 (1.86%) Java
4 1 (0.62%) C#
4 1 (0.62%) C++
4 1 (0.62%) Perl
4 1 (0.62%) Python
4 1 (0.62%) R
4 1 (0.62%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.56%) Degree
2 15 (9.32%) PMP
3 14 (8.70%) PMI Certification
4 12 (7.45%) Security Cleared
5 10 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.86%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (1.24%) CCNA
10 2 (1.24%) CCNP
10 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.62%) ISEB
11 1 (0.62%) ISEB Practitioner
11 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.62%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.66%) PMO
2 8 (4.97%) QA
3 6 (3.73%) ISO 26262
4 5 (3.11%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (3.11%) MISRA
4 5 (3.11%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.86%) SLA
6 2 (1.24%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.62%) COBIT
7 1 (0.62%) IFRS
7 1 (0.62%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.62%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.62%) NIST
7 1 (0.62%) P3O
7 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.62%) iptables
2 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.86%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.62%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.62%) Kibana
2 1 (0.62%) logstash
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (9.32%) SAP
2 13 (8.07%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.86%) HP
4 3 (1.86%) Oracle
4 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.24%) Cisco
5 2 (1.24%) NEC
6 1 (0.62%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.62%) Juniper
6 1 (0.62%) Palantir
6 1 (0.62%) Planview
6 1 (0.62%) VMware
6 1 (0.62%) Xamarin