Portfolio Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Portfolio Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Portfolio Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Portfolio Management 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £307 - £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £155
75th Percentile £357 - £158
90th Percentile £384 - -
England median daily rate £535 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -20.74% +17.39% -10.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Portfolio Management 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 511 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.50% 86.76% 82.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 315 425
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £333 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -6.18% -4.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 23 45
10th Percentile £15.86 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.44 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £24.87 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Portfolio Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Portfolio Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Portfolio Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Portfolio Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Portfolio Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Portfolio Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 2 £347 -
Leicestershire - 1 £313 -
Portfolio Management
England

Portfolio Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Manager
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (50.00%) Business Case
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
3 2 (50.00%) Epics
3 2 (50.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Business Forecasting
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Information Management
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Planview