Project Manager Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Project Manager daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 35 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 28 38 68
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.79% 5.92% 7.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.31% 6.27% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 37
10th Percentile £352 £376 £413
25th Percentile £413 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -0.51%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £550
90th Percentile £525 £520 £617
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 527 606 867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 94.39% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 319 516
10th Percentile £227 £223 £210
25th Percentile £410 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 16
10th Percentile £22.80 £19.64 £13.22
25th Percentile £30.38 £21.05 £17.29
Median hourly rate £58.75 £23.59 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +149.05% -18.47% +45.77%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £60.38
90th Percentile - - £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £22.55 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.85% +12.73% +12.87%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Project Manager job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Edinburgh

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 18 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) Project Management
3 8 (28.57%) Migration
3 8 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 7 (25.00%) JIRA
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (21.43%) Azure
5 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 6 (21.43%) Project Governance
6 5 (17.86%) AWS
6 5 (17.86%) Change Management
6 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.29%) Firewall
7 4 (14.29%) GCP
7 4 (14.29%) Oracle
7 4 (14.29%) Project Planning
7 4 (14.29%) Runbook
7 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 3 (10.71%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) Ansible
8 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
8 3 (10.71%) COBIT
8 3 (10.71%) Confluence
8 3 (10.71%) Data Governance

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Trello
2 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) OCI
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Finance
3 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
4 8 (28.57%) Banking
5 7 (25.00%) Retail
5 7 (25.00%) Retail Banking
6 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (14.29%) Legal
7 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.71%) EPoS
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) PMI
3 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) Project Management
3 8 (28.57%) Migration
3 8 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (21.43%) Project Governance
6 5 (17.86%) Change Management
6 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.29%) Project Planning
7 4 (14.29%) Runbook
7 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 3 (10.71%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
8 3 (10.71%) Dependency Management
8 3 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) COBIT
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
3 3 (10.71%) Dell
3 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
3 3 (10.71%) F5
3 3 (10.71%) HP
4 2 (7.14%) Workday
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) Planview
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Talend
5 1 (3.57%) WorldPay