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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 19 32
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.10% 3.61% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 4.00% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £293 £438 £219
Median % change year-on-year -33.03% +99.77% -66.31%
South Wales median daily rate £293 £438 £325
% change year-on-year -33.03% +34.62% -50.00%

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 218 150 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 80.15% 90.36% 75.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 125 145
10th Percentile £249 £191 £150
25th Percentile £305 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £758 £625 £642
South Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £473
% change year-on-year - -10.05% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile - £15.83 £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.73% +25.00% +22.26%
75th Percentile £20.75 £27.50 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £43.25 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.00 £22.68
% change year-on-year -3.41% -3.00% +16.37%

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) NHS Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft