Project Management Contracts in Bristol

Project Management
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 64 84 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 11.15% 7.89% 8.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.05% 9.53% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 51 66
10th Percentile £320 £260 £325
25th Percentile £403 £389 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £496 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +4.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £588
90th Percentile £588 £599 £650
South West median daily rate £485 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.71% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 14
10th Percentile £57.38 £35.00 £47.43
25th Percentile £59.06 £49.06 £52.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -13.08% +283.93%
75th Percentile £66.25 £62.19 £77.19
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.50 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year +64.29% -40.43% +247.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 531 881 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.51% 82.80% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 487 710
10th Percentile £235 £254 £300
25th Percentile £363 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £599 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £721
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 195 205
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £31.13 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £64.00 £67.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +9.35% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £80.00 £80.15
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +23.43%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Bristol

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Bristol

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Bristol

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 7 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Primavera
2 2 (3.13%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.56%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) Azure
2 4 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) 5G
2 2 (3.13%) MPLS
3 1 (1.56%) DHCP
3 1 (1.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Metadata
1 1 (1.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 32 (50.00%) Finance
2 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
3 19 (29.69%) Telecoms
4 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
5 8 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 6 (9.38%) Billing
7 5 (7.81%) Electronics
7 5 (7.81%) Marketing
8 4 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
10 2 (3.13%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (3.13%) Military
10 2 (3.13%) Police
11 1 (1.56%) Banking
11 1 (1.56%) Legal
11 1 (1.56%) Local Government
11 1 (1.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Project Manager
2 8 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (9.38%) OSS Project Manager
3 6 (9.38%) Telecoms Manager
3 6 (9.38%) Telecoms Project Manager
4 5 (7.81%) Network Manager
4 5 (7.81%) Network Project Manager
4 5 (7.81%) Programme Controller
5 4 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 4 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Business Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Coordinator
6 3 (4.69%) Lead
6 3 (4.69%) Project Controller
6 3 (4.69%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (4.69%) Project Planner
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
1 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (34.38%) Agile
3 18 (28.13%) PRINCE2
4 17 (26.56%) Project Delivery
5 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (17.19%) Scrum
7 10 (15.63%) Coaching
7 10 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (15.63%) Risk Management
7 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (14.06%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (14.06%) Waterfall
9 8 (12.50%) Service Management
10 7 (10.94%) CRM
10 7 (10.94%) Service Delivery
11 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
11 6 (9.38%) Fault Management
11 6 (9.38%) ITIL
11 6 (9.38%) Network Management
11 6 (9.38%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 25 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 8 (12.50%) PMP
4 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) Degree
5 2 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) PMO
2 4 (6.25%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.56%) PMBOK
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.56%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Amdocs OSS
2 5 (7.81%) NSN NetAct
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) Terraform
4 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Ericsson
1 11 (17.19%) Nokia
1 11 (17.19%) SAP
2 6 (9.38%) Amdocs
2 6 (9.38%) Ciena
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) NetCracker
3 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.13%) VMware
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) IFS
4 1 (1.56%) Veritas