Project Planning Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Project Planning
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Project Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.71% 1.56% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.90% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £295 £415 £257
25th Percentile £298 £494 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £309 £650 £410
Median % change year-on-year -52.46% +58.73% +26.00%
75th Percentile £326 £703 £505
90th Percentile £333 £719 £562
South Wales median daily rate £309 £650 £325
% change year-on-year -52.46% +100.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Project Planning 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 192 158 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 82.05% 82.29% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 115 148
10th Percentile £213 £171 £181
25th Percentile £290 £221 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £394
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £497 £550 £532
90th Percentile £638 £683 £615
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £12.73 £21.18 £17.30
25th Percentile £13.08 £22.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.60 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -11.72% +89.67%
75th Percentile £19.08 £27.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £20.60 £43.25 £50.38
South Wales median hourly rate £18.69 £25.09 £29.83
% change year-on-year -25.53% -15.90% +49.84%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Project Planning job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Project Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) NHS Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Burndown Charts
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) SAP