Project Planning Contracts in the West Midlands

Project Planning
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Project Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Planning 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 89 122 147
Rank change year-on-year +33 +25 -48
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 20 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.79% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.89% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 22
10th Percentile - £378 £451
25th Percentile £213 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £484
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -9.09% +7.56%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £515
90th Percentile £572 £571 £540
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £22.41 - -
25th Percentile £26.92 £20.49 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £20.97 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% - -
75th Percentile £53.95 £21.46 -
90th Percentile £72.90 - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £49.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +14.80% +10.11% +3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Project Planning 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 Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
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 Planning 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
Warwickshire +6 6 £575 +30.68% 3
Worcestershire +9 4 £225 -47.06% 1
Birmingham +8 4 £488 +1.30% 7
Staffordshire - 1 £450 - 2
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Boomi
1 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 3 (15.00%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) CCTV Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Change Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Programme Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Support
5 1 (5.00%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Support
5 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Support Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Project Management
2 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (20.00%) Budget Management
5 4 (20.00%) Change Management
5 4 (20.00%) Cost Control
5 4 (20.00%) Decarbonisation
5 4 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Change Control
6 3 (15.00%) CRM
6 3 (15.00%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (15.00%) Risk Register
6 3 (15.00%) Validation
7 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
7 2 (10.00%) Contract Management
7 2 (10.00%) Service Design
7 2 (10.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 5 (25.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) CCNA
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) MCDST
2 1 (5.00%) MCP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe