Project Management Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Project Management
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 8 46 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.32% 10.20% 12.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 12.67% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 37 85
10th Percentile £330 £272 £194
25th Percentile £506 £359 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.16% -9.47% -
75th Percentile £560 £488 £550
90th Percentile £569 £570 £640
South East median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year - +166.51% -82.26%
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +125.00% -50.00% +64.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 363 820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 94.61% 80.49% 93.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 247 654
10th Percentile £213 £250 £320
25th Percentile £348 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -5.25% +4.17%
75th Percentile £560 £557 £588
90th Percentile £647 £645 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 29 6
10th Percentile - £15.85 £13.37
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £14.24
Median hourly rate £15.19 £25.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -39.26% +52.44% +33.23%
75th Percentile £19.84 £28.75 £18.16
90th Percentile £59.88 £48.75 £21.25
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.10
% change year-on-year -52.00% -4.03% +131.56%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Buckinghamshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Buckinghamshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Buckinghamshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Buckinghamshire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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
Milton Keynes -11 7 £528 +22.67% 47
Amersham - 1 £550 -
Project Management
South East

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) Parceljs
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) PRINCE2
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Contract Management
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Product Management
4 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) API Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Order Management
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (37.50%) APMP
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) ISEB
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) Snow