IT Project Manager Contracts in England

IT Project Manager
UK > England

The median IT Project Manager daily rate in England is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 326 310
Rank change year-on-year -16 -16 -46
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 129 210 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.58% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.62% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 169 310
10th Percentile £425 £370 £400
25th Percentile £500 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -2.55% +3.61%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £522
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.57% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £64.45 - -
25th Percentile £69.63 £23.63 £61.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £34.14 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +119.70% -45.38% +59.24%
75th Percentile £77.81 £56.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £78.38 £62.50 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £43.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +74.42% -31.20% +21.36%

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 22,435 33,769 45,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,906 22,420 32,568
10th Percentile £295 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 2,442 1,343
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -17.97% +95.42%
75th Percentile £63.13 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Project Manager in England

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Project Manager in England

IT 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 IT Project Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +16 58 £550 -9.09% 22
North of England +10 24 £525 +15.38% 12
Midlands +9 21 £525 +5.00% 14
West Midlands -6 16 £538 +7.50% 11
North West +12 12 £570 +8.57% 7
South West +29 11 £525 +10.53% 3
Yorkshire +19 11 £500 +11.11% 6
South East +17 7 £545 +3.81% 26
East Midlands +14 5 £488 -2.50% 3
East of England +29 4 £650 +30.00% 6
North East -8 1 £475 -9.52%
IT Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, IT 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 IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 71 (55.04%) Project Management
2 50 (38.76%) Finance
2 50 (38.76%) Social Skills
3 45 (34.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (32.56%) Agile
5 33 (25.58%) Project Delivery
6 25 (19.38%) PRINCE2
7 24 (18.60%) Budget Management
8 23 (17.83%) Risk Management
9 22 (17.05%) Migration
10 20 (15.50%) Change Management
10 20 (15.50%) JIRA
11 19 (14.73%) Banking
12 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (12.40%) Scrum
14 15 (11.63%) Azure
15 14 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (10.08%) Waterfall
16 13 (10.08%) PMI Certification
17 11 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (8.53%) SaaS
17 11 (8.53%) Degree
17 11 (8.53%) PMP
18 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Project
18 10 (7.75%) Legal
18 10 (7.75%) Confluence
18 10 (7.75%) Security Cleared
18 10 (7.75%) Project Governance
18 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
18 10 (7.75%) Resource Allocation

IT 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 10 (7.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.10%) Trello
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.55%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.78%) Infor LN
3 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.63%) Azure
2 11 (8.53%) SaaS
3 7 (5.43%) AWS
4 3 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (2.33%) IaaS
4 3 (2.33%) PaaS
4 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.33%) Veeva
5 2 (1.55%) Asana
5 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.55%) GCP
6 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.78%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.78%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) WAN
2 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.55%) Firewall
3 2 (1.55%) LAN
4 1 (0.78%) Internet
4 1 (0.78%) Intranet
4 1 (0.78%) MPLS
4 1 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.78%) GitLab
General
1 50 (38.76%) Finance
1 50 (38.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.73%) Banking
3 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Legal
4 9 (6.98%) Retail
5 5 (3.88%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.10%) Marketing
6 4 (3.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.10%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.10%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.33%) Law
7 3 (2.33%) Local Government
7 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Billing
8 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.78%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.10%) Housing Association
2 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.10%) PMI
2 4 (3.10%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.55%) NHS
4 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.78%) EPoS
5 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.78%) iPad
5 1 (0.78%) LIMS
5 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (55.04%) Project Management
2 45 (34.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (32.56%) Agile
4 33 (25.58%) Project Delivery
5 25 (19.38%) PRINCE2
6 24 (18.60%) Budget Management
7 23 (17.83%) Risk Management
8 22 (17.05%) Migration
9 20 (15.50%) Change Management
10 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (12.40%) Scrum
12 14 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.08%) Waterfall
14 11 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (7.75%) Project Governance
15 10 (7.75%) Resource Allocation
16 9 (6.98%) Supplier Management
17 8 (6.20%) CRM
17 8 (6.20%) Data Migration
17 8 (6.20%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.88%) SQL
2 4 (3.10%) Python
3 1 (0.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (10.08%) PMI Certification
2 11 (8.53%) Degree
2 11 (8.53%) PMP
3 10 (7.75%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.55%) APMP
7 2 (1.55%) CISA
8 1 (0.78%) CISSP
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) PMO
2 5 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.33%) NIST
4 3 (2.33%) QA
5 2 (1.55%) COBIT
5 2 (1.55%) COSO
5 2 (1.55%) GDPR
5 2 (1.55%) GxP
5 2 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.78%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.55%) SCCM
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.43%) SAP
3 5 (3.88%) Cisco
3 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.33%) Siemens
4 3 (2.33%) Workday
5 2 (1.55%) Aareon
5 2 (1.55%) Arista
5 2 (1.55%) Civica
5 2 (1.55%) Northgate
6 1 (0.78%) Aruba
6 1 (0.78%) Baan
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) Infor
6 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.78%) Planview
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.78%) Veeam
92 IT Project Manager jobs Nationwide