Project Manager Contracts in Cardiff

Project Manager
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Project Manager daily rate in Cardiff is £514 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 23 9
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 26 22 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 12.32% 6.49% 12.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.27% 6.73% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 55
10th Percentile £417 £210 £328
25th Percentile £492 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.44% -13.51% -2.63%
75th Percentile £528 £450 £538
90th Percentile £593 £550 £565
South Wales median daily rate £513 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +28.13% -13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.03 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 - -
75th Percentile £12.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £11.64 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 196 327 506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 96.46% 96.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 260 391
10th Percentile £199 £185 £238
25th Percentile £381 £361 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £626 £638
South Wales median daily rate £470 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +1.90% -2.89% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -7.99% +15.38%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024, 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 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 17 (65.38%) Scrum
3 16 (61.54%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (61.54%) Degree
4 15 (57.69%) Atlassian
4 15 (57.69%) SDLC
5 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 11 (42.31%) Azure
7 10 (38.46%) Project Management
7 10 (38.46%) Migration
7 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
8 9 (34.62%) Argo
8 9 (34.62%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
8 9 (34.62%) PHP
8 9 (34.62%) JIRA
8 9 (34.62%) Project Governance
8 9 (34.62%) GitHub
9 8 (30.77%) MySQL
9 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (26.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (26.92%) Product Ownership
11 6 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (23.08%) Kanban
12 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
13 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 3 (11.54%) Finance
15 2 (7.69%) Resource Management
15 2 (7.69%) Network Security
15 2 (7.69%) Analytics

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 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) GitHub
2 9 (34.62%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) JIRA
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
1 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
1 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.85%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 17 (65.38%) Scrum
3 15 (57.69%) SDLC
4 10 (38.46%) Migration
4 10 (38.46%) Project Management
5 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
5 9 (34.62%) Project Governance
6 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (23.08%) Kanban
8 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
9 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (7.69%) Analytics
10 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (7.69%) Data Analytics
10 2 (7.69%) DevOps
10 2 (7.69%) Resource Management
11 1 (3.85%) Budget Management
11 1 (3.85%) Budgeting
11 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Atlassian
2 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) Progress
4 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle