Project Management Contracts in Cardiff

Project Management
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 6 34 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.75% 16.04% 10.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 21.12% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 30 17
10th Percentile £367 £461 £379
25th Percentile £477 £492 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +14.17% -
75th Percentile £530 £551 £550
90th Percentile £558 £667 £650
South Wales median daily rate £500 £535 £450
% change year-on-year -6.54% +18.89% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Cardiff

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Cardiff

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Cardiff

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Cardiff

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Creative Strategist
3 1 (16.67%) Development Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (16.67%) Photography
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Content Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Deadline-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) GitOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Storyboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Storytelling
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Argo
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft