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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 17 26
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 20 23 22
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.17% 6.53% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 7.67% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 12
10th Percentile £374 £322 £275
25th Percentile £413 £411 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £672 £559 £513
90th Percentile £738 £599 £618
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £18.33
25th Percentile £42.25 £22.54 £20.69
Median hourly rate £43.50 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.18% +25.00% -42.86%
75th Percentile £44.75 £28.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - £28.86 £31.10
East of England median hourly rate £43.50 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +8.75% -18.37% -24.62%

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 337 300 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.08% 85.23% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 113 138
10th Percentile £275 £288 £217
25th Percentile £364 £350 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £454 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -6.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £616 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £635 £656
East of England median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 79 189
10th Percentile £13.75 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £32.89 £30.89
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £21.16
% change year-on-year -23.64% +29.99% -5.98%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -6 14 £450 -10.00% 12
Peterborough +1 1 £300 +8.17% 8
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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) MQTT
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
1 1 (5.00%) UWB
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (5.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) MS Access
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Environmental Health
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 6 (30.00%) IT Manager
2 6 (30.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Coordinator
3 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Configuration Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Data Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) ITSM Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) PCB Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) PMO Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Life Science
1 2 (10.00%) LIMS
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (25.00%) Change Management
4 5 (25.00%) Time Management
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Information Management
6 2 (10.00%) ITSM
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (5.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) C
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (5.00%) PMO
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) IFS
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow