Project Planning Contracts in Edinburgh

Project Planning
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 66 101
Rank change year-on-year +6 +35 -16
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 7 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 0.74% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.83% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £603 £266 £232
25th Percentile £606 £428 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £388
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +51.61% +3.33%
75th Percentile £656 £838 £563
90th Percentile £668 £875 £623
Scotland median daily rate £482 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +1.53% -13.64% +46.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in Edinburgh

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in Edinburgh

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in Edinburgh

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ADSL
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) PSTN
1 1 (14.29%) SDH
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) HPUX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
2 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Hydrography
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
2 1 (14.29%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) HNC
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) HP
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Nokia
1 1 (14.29%) Pega
1 1 (14.29%) Sun
1 1 (14.29%) Unisys