Project Manager Contracts in Cardiff

Project Manager
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Project Manager daily rate in Cardiff is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 14 20 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.69% 8.23% 8.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.95% 8.93% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 16
10th Percentile £331 £413 £395
25th Percentile £425 £489 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +17.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £506 £523 £550
90th Percentile £525 £577 £575
South Wales median daily rate £450 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.64 -
South Wales median hourly rate - £11.64 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 176 224 233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.70% 92.18% 96.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 185 176
10th Percentile £188 £140 £188
25th Percentile £300 £250 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £456
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +7.40% -3.95%
75th Percentile £488 £540 £565
90th Percentile £625 £600 £628
South Wales median daily rate £390 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 11
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.61 £16.00
25th Percentile £12.86 £12.25 £16.11
Median hourly rate £15.80 £18.57 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% -7.15% +5.26%
75th Percentile £23.75 £21.67 £24.38
90th Percentile £25.09 £22.45 £26.00
South Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £23.84 £18.14
% change year-on-year -14.01% +31.42% +0.78%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Cardiff

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Cardiff

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Cardiff over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Cardiff

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Cardiff

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 5 (35.71%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 3 (21.43%) PMO
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 2 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Project Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Management
5 1 (7.14%) Dependency Management
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (7.14%) Programme Management

Project Manager Skill Set
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 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Asana
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.14%) Budgeting
5 1 (7.14%) Business Case
5 1 (7.14%) CRM
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft