Project Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Project Management
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 24 27 30
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 6.47% 6.63% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 8.06% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 17
10th Percentile £374 £321 £290
25th Percentile £413 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £597 £619 £550
90th Percentile £674 £638 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile - £22.54 £17.80
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.47 £19.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +25.00% -42.86%
75th Percentile £37.88 £28.88 -
90th Percentile £42.00 £38.84 -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -18.37% +11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 335 335 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 90.30% 82.31% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 115 182
10th Percentile £265 £254 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% - -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £552
90th Percentile £700 £638 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 106 197
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £20.58 £20.25
90th Percentile £43.75 £50.63 £24.70
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £28.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.11% +42.10% -4.76%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Project Management job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Project Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Project Management

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Cambridgeshire

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Project Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Project Management

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Cambridge -9 13 £438 -27.08% 25
Peterborough +1 4 £375 +35.21% 11
Project Management
East of England

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (8.33%) DHCP
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) LAN
1 2 (8.33%) PuTTY
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
1 2 (8.33%) Wireless
1 2 (8.33%) WLAN
2 1 (4.17%) Bluetooth
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) MQTT
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) UWB
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.17%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) MS Access
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Environmental Health
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 5 (20.83%) IT Manager
2 5 (20.83%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Coordinator
3 2 (8.33%) IT Support
3 2 (8.33%) Network Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Senior IT Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Support Officer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Trainer
4 1 (4.17%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Life Science
1 2 (8.33%) LIMS
1 2 (8.33%) Molecular Biology
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.17%) CMDB
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Change Management
2 7 (29.17%) Project Delivery
2 7 (29.17%) Waterfall
3 5 (20.83%) Time Management
4 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (12.50%) Data Management
4 3 (12.50%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) ITSM
4 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.50%) Service Management
5 2 (8.33%) Biology
5 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.33%) Information Management
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.33%) SDLC
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) C
2 1 (4.17%) C++
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) CCNA
2 2 (8.33%) CCNP
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Def Stans
1 1 (4.17%) PMO
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) Peregrine
2 2 (8.33%) Remedy
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) IFS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) SAP