Project Management Contracts in Cardiff

Project Management
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 12 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Management 36 39 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 16.22% 11.30% 7.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.05% 13.04% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 32
10th Percentile £463 £379 £301
25th Percentile £494 £390 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £551 £525 £550
90th Percentile £667 £650 £586
South Wales median daily rate £535 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +18.89% -10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 171 299 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 77.03% 86.67% 81.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 234 337
10th Percentile £188 £210 £257
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £561 £538
90th Percentile £645 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £478
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% +9.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.64 £13.75
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.97
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.72 £20.63
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -28.62% +25.86%
75th Percentile £35.88 £21.98 £25.25
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.38 £37.88
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.03% -27.44% +25.00%

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 19 April 2024.

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 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP HCM
1 2 (5.56%) SAP HR
1 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) GitHub
2 12 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) AWS
4 8 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (2.78%) GCP
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (13.89%) Firewall
2 5 (13.89%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) MySQL
2 11 (30.56%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Cypress.io
2 10 (27.78%) Postman
3 8 (22.22%) GitLab
4 7 (19.44%) JIRA
5 4 (11.11%) Storybook
6 1 (2.78%) AppScan
6 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.78%) Git
6 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.78%) Subversion
6 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Developer
1 10 (27.78%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.67%) DBA
2 6 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Agile Project Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Software Project Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Development Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Development Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (8.33%) Software Development Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Software Development Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Software Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Agile Development Manager
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Architect
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) Vue
2 8 (22.22%) Laravel
3 6 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (16.67%) Playwright
3 6 (16.67%) React
4 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
3 5 (13.89%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) NHS
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 15 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 12 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (30.56%) Analytics
4 11 (30.56%) Scrum
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Data Analytics
6 8 (22.22%) Kanban
6 8 (22.22%) Project Governance
7 7 (19.44%) DevOps
7 7 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (19.44%) SDLC
8 6 (16.67%) Change Control
8 6 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
8 6 (16.67%) Migration
9 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
9 5 (13.89%) Front End Development
9 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
9 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) PHP
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.78%) PMP
2 1 (2.78%) SANS
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (58.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Ansible
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) Grafana
2 6 (16.67%) Graylog
2 6 (16.67%) Nagios
2 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Argo
3 1 (2.78%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) Nessus
3 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) VxRail
3 1 (2.78%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Atlassian
3 6 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (5.56%) Progress
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) 3PAR
5 1 (2.78%) Brocade
5 1 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.78%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Dell
5 1 (2.78%) EMC
5 1 (2.78%) HP
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.78%) Veracode
5 1 (2.78%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Zscaler