Business Project Manager Contracts in England

Business Project Manager
UK > England

The median Business Project Manager daily rate in England is £439, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 526 592
Rank change year-on-year +64 +66 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Business Project Manager 42 31 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.086% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 37
10th Percentile £358 £367 £435
25th Percentile £392 £464 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £619 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +17.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £692 £610
90th Percentile £644 £749 £700
UK median daily rate £439 £588 £530
% change year-on-year -25.32% +10.85% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.19
Median hourly rate - - £57.13
75th Percentile - - £61.06
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.13

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,013 33,557 44,673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.97% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,276 22,044 31,607
10th Percentile £290 £300 £312
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £752
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,236 2,309 1,397
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £19.49
Median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%
75th Percentile £57.31 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.28 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.81% -5.88% +65.50%

Business Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Business Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Project Manager in England

Business Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Project Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Business Project Manager in England

Business Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Project Manager in England

Business Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Project Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Project Manager in England

Business Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Project Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
London +37 30 £538 -18.87% 6
North of England +12 7 £413 - 6
Yorkshire - 6 £413 - 1
Midlands -3 3 £475 -9.52% 2
West Midlands +2 2 £406 -22.62% 1
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Business Project Manager
UK

Business Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Business 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 England region featuring Business Project Manager in the job title.

1 27 (64.29%) Finance
2 23 (54.76%) Project Management
3 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
4 18 (42.86%) Agile
5 17 (40.48%) Business Analysis
6 15 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (23.81%) Banking
8 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 9 (21.43%) Waterfall
9 8 (19.05%) Project Governance
9 8 (19.05%) MS Visio
9 8 (19.05%) Project Delivery
9 8 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (14.29%) Change Management
10 6 (14.29%) Front Office
10 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (14.29%) Confluence
11 5 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (11.90%) Marketing
11 5 (11.90%) Resource Management
11 5 (11.90%) Validation
11 5 (11.90%) Scrum
11 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
11 5 (11.90%) SQL
11 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
11 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.90%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (11.90%) Influencing Skills

Business Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (19.05%) MS Visio
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (2.38%) Asana
3 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.38%) BigCommerce
3 1 (2.38%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 27 (64.29%) Finance
2 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Banking
4 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Front Office
5 5 (11.90%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Marketing
6 4 (9.52%) Legal
7 3 (7.14%) Back Office
7 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.76%) Retail
9 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.38%) Law
9 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.38%) Private Banking
9 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Equities
1 3 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.76%) Hedge funds
2 2 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Derivative
3 1 (2.38%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.38%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Project Management
2 18 (42.86%) Agile
3 17 (40.48%) Business Analysis
4 15 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (21.43%) Waterfall
6 8 (19.05%) Project Delivery
6 8 (19.05%) Project Governance
6 8 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (14.29%) Change Management
7 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
8 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.90%) Resource Management
8 5 (11.90%) Scrum
8 5 (11.90%) Validation
8 5 (11.90%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (9.52%) Business Strategy
9 4 (9.52%) Business Transformation
9 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) SQL
2 3 (7.14%) C#
2 3 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.38%) PMP
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) PMO
2 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.38%) Basel III
2 1 (2.38%) EMIR
2 1 (2.38%) MiFID
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Concur
2 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.38%) Adobe
3 1 (2.38%) Planview
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Sitecore