Project Management Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Project Management
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 24 33 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.77% 6.32% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 7.62% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 21
10th Percentile £424 £217 £275
25th Percentile £444 £328 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -15.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £625
90th Percentile £585 - £725
East of England median daily rate £510 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +6.59% -8.95% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £21.20 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.29 £25.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.59 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +26.74% -39.77%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.75 £27.25
90th Percentile - £44.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £46.18 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year +21.14% -22.20% +81.48%

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 272 433 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.03% 82.95% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 153 248
10th Percentile £246 £209 £225
25th Percentile £376 £325 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £536
90th Percentile £684 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 182 168
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.88 £25.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £23.58
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Cambridgeshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Cambridgeshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Cambridgeshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Cambridgeshire

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 3 July 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 -3 12 £520 +8.79% 133
Peterborough +11 5 £447 - 61
Project Management
East of England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.17%) SaaS
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing
3 3 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Digital Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) IT Support
2 4 (16.67%) Support Officer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 3 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Network Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Compliance Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) E-Commerce Marketing Manager
5 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Molecular Biology
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Life Science
3 1 (4.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Change Management
1 7 (29.17%) Project Delivery
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 4 (16.67%) Biology
3 4 (16.67%) Biomedicine
3 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (16.67%) Data Management
4 3 (12.50%) Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 3 (12.50%) Time Management
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.33%) ITSM
5 2 (8.33%) SEO
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) CCNA
2 2 (8.33%) CCNP
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) PMO
1 1 (4.17%) QA
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%) Sitecore