Development Project Manager Contracts in England

Project Manager - Development
UK > England

The median Project Manager - Development daily rate in England is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 528 625
Rank change year-on-year +46 +97 +123
Contract jobs requiring a Development Project Manager 3 14 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.038% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.041% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 24
10th Percentile £466 £369 £363
25th Percentile £471 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £563 £600
90th Percentile £578 £581 -
UK median daily rate £480 £509 £520
% change year-on-year -5.65% -2.16% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £36.33 -
25th Percentile - £36.33 £87.39
Median hourly rate - £36.34 £89.78
Median % change year-on-year - -59.53% -
75th Percentile - £42.54 £92.16
90th Percentile - £46.27 -
UK median hourly rate - £36.34 £89.78
% change year-on-year - -59.53% -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Development Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Project Manager in England

Development Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Development Project Manager in England

Development Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Development Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Development Project Manager in England

Development Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Development Project Manager in England

Development 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 Development Project Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +45 1 £475 -9.52% 1
London +31 1 £600 +7.14% 6
Midlands +22 1 £480 +20.00%
East Midlands - 1 £480 -
Development Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Development 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 Development Project Manager in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Optimizely
2 1 (33.33%) Funnel Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Global Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) OneTrust
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Journey Map
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management

Development 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Commercetools
1 1 (33.33%) Contentful
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Funnel Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Global Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) OneTrust
1 1 (33.33%) Optimizely
1 1 (33.33%) SAP