Project Management Contracts in England

Project Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2,906 3,823 5,639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.86% 7.56% 7.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 8.38% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,816 2,636 3,859
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 152 206
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.37 £30.19 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +23.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £80.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.24
% change year-on-year -22.20% +47.41% +23.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
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 Project Management within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +6 1,329 £550 -2.65% 898
South East -6 405 £500 - 508
North of England -4 347 £500 - 474
South West +8 326 £525 -4.11% 289
Midlands -1 208 £510 +2.00% 387
East of England +7 202 £525 +5.00% 217
North West -7 188 £516 +3.22% 289
West Midlands +1 163 £525 +5.00% 244
Yorkshire +9 131 £500 -4.76% 147
East Midlands -8 42 £481 +1.32% 142
North East +20 30 £600 +50.00% 46
Project Management
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Project Management
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
1 135 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.86%) Confluence
3 37 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (1.20%) CMS
5 13 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.34%) Drupal
6 10 (0.34%) SAS
7 6 (0.21%) Apache
8 5 (0.17%) Documentum
8 5 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.14%) CICS
9 4 (0.14%) nginx
10 3 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.10%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.10%) WordPress
11 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 188 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 188 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
3 113 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
5 38 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.28%) Simulink
7 7 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.24%) InDesign
8 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.17%) Revit
9 5 (0.17%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.10%) Trello
12 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.069%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 83 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.14%) Loan IQ
3 21 (0.72%) Primavera
4 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
6 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 8 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
7 8 (0.28%) SAP SD
7 8 (0.28%) Workfront
8 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 233 (8.02%) Azure
2 93 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (3.17%) Power Platform
4 84 (2.89%) AWS
5 54 (1.86%) SaaS
6 40 (1.38%) GitHub
7 36 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
8 35 (1.20%) OCI
9 31 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (1.00%) GCP
11 27 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
12 20 (0.69%) PowerApps
13 18 (0.62%) Google Workspace
14 16 (0.55%) Slack
15 15 (0.52%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.48%) Entra ID
17 13 (0.45%) Smartsheet
17 13 (0.45%) WhatsApp
18 12 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
19 10 (0.34%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.79%) WAN
2 50 (1.72%) Firewall
3 46 (1.58%) LAN
3 46 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
4 45 (1.55%) VPN
5 34 (1.17%) DNS
6 27 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
7 25 (0.86%) Intranet
8 23 (0.79%) DHCP
9 22 (0.76%) SAN
9 22 (0.76%) Wireless
10 21 (0.72%) Network Security
11 19 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
12 16 (0.55%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.52%) 4G
14 14 (0.48%) Internet
15 11 (0.38%) VoIP
16 10 (0.34%) 3GPP
16 10 (0.34%) LTE
16 10 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (2.72%) Power BI
2 35 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 17 (0.58%) MySQL
6 14 (0.48%) GIS
7 13 (0.45%) Big Data
7 13 (0.45%) Data Lake
7 13 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
8 11 (0.38%) Metadata
9 10 (0.34%) Data Mining
9 10 (0.34%) Tableau
10 8 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 7 (0.24%) EDMS
11 7 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.24%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 213 (7.33%) JIRA
2 30 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 25 (0.86%) Git
4 19 (0.65%) GitLab
5 12 (0.41%) Subversion
6 9 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.28%) TestRail
8 6 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.21%) Travis CI
8 6 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.17%) AppScan
9 5 (0.17%) Postman
9 5 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,211 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 895 (30.80%) Finance
3 444 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 188 (6.47%) Organisational Skills
6 181 (6.23%) Presentation Skills
7 153 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 151 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
9 149 (5.13%) Banking
10 145 (4.99%) Marketing
11 135 (4.65%) Legal
12 127 (4.37%) Telecoms
13 90 (3.10%) Retail
14 73 (2.51%) Electronics
15 70 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 65 (2.24%) Local Government
17 60 (2.06%) Aerospace
18 51 (1.75%) Front Office
19 47 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 44 (1.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,036 (35.65%) Project Manager
2 268 (9.22%) Lead
3 263 (9.05%) Analyst
4 222 (7.64%) Senior
5 158 (5.44%) Architect
6 146 (5.02%) Business Analyst
7 144 (4.96%) IT Manager
8 130 (4.47%) Senior Manager
9 112 (3.85%) IT Project Manager
10 111 (3.82%) Consultant
11 95 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
11 95 (3.27%) Senior Project Manager
12 90 (3.10%) Technical Manager
13 78 (2.68%) Developer
14 77 (2.65%) Programme Manager
15 76 (2.62%) Security Manager
16 60 (2.06%) Technical Project Manager
17 56 (1.93%) Security Project Manager
18 55 (1.89%) Infrastructure Manager
19 46 (1.58%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (0.83%) XML
2 22 (0.76%) YAML
3 18 (0.62%) ADO
4 17 (0.58%) .NET
5 16 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (0.55%) React
6 15 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 14 (0.48%) Spring
8 12 (0.41%) EDI
9 10 (0.34%) JSON
10 7 (0.24%) CSS
10 7 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (0.24%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.17%) HTML
11 5 (0.17%) Middleware
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.17%) Web Services
12 4 (0.14%) Gherkin
12 4 (0.14%) Kafka
12 4 (0.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 147 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 77 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 57 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 52 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 51 (1.75%) PMI
6 50 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 50 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.07%) Analogue Electronics
7 31 (1.07%) NHS
7 31 (1.07%) Virtual Team
8 28 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 28 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (0.89%) Life Science
10 22 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (0.72%) Derivative
12 19 (0.65%) FMCG
12 19 (0.65%) Social Media
13 18 (0.62%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 89 (3.06%) Windows
2 79 (2.72%) Linux
3 38 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 20 (0.69%) zOS
6 17 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (0.48%) Android
8 14 (0.48%) Windows XP
9 13 (0.45%) Unix
10 6 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.10%) VMS
12 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.069%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (29.28%) Agile
2 678 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 589 (20.27%) Project Delivery
4 579 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
5 443 (15.24%) PRINCE2
6 361 (12.42%) Change Management
7 287 (9.88%) Risk Management
8 262 (9.02%) Migration
9 257 (8.84%) Decision-Making
10 242 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 205 (7.05%) Programme Management
12 200 (6.88%) Scrum
13 192 (6.61%) Waterfall
14 185 (6.37%) Project Planning
15 178 (6.13%) Business Case
16 161 (5.54%) ITIL
17 154 (5.30%) Budget Management
17 154 (5.30%) DevOps
17 154 (5.30%) Roadmaps
18 148 (5.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 108 (3.72%) SQL
2 92 (3.17%) Python
3 60 (2.06%) PowerShell
4 40 (1.38%) Java
5 39 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 23 (0.79%) C#
7 21 (0.72%) C
8 20 (0.69%) Bash
9 16 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 15 (0.52%) JCL
10 15 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.41%) REXX
12 8 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.28%) Scala
12 8 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.24%) R
13 7 (0.24%) XPath
13 7 (0.24%) XQuery
14 6 (0.21%) PHP
15 4 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 473 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 458 (15.76%) Degree
3 304 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 179 (6.16%) PMI Certification
5 174 (5.99%) PMP
6 154 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 67 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 53 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 39 (1.34%) APMP
11 38 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.24%) CISSP
13 29 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 28 (0.96%) CCNP
15 27 (0.93%) CISM
16 26 (0.89%) CCNA
17 23 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
19 19 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
20 14 (0.48%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (10.74%) PMO
2 161 (5.54%) QA
3 52 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (0.93%) GDPR
7 26 (0.89%) JSP 440
7 26 (0.89%) SLA
8 13 (0.45%) NIST
9 10 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.34%) P3O
10 8 (0.28%) GxP
11 6 (0.21%) EMIR
11 6 (0.21%) GAMP
11 6 (0.21%) ISO 26262
11 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.17%) MISRA C
System Software
1 64 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (0.79%) Docker
4 20 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.55%) NFS
6 15 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) ACF2
10 4 (0.14%) RACF
10 4 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.10%) KVM
11 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.10%) vSphere
12 1 (0.034%) iptables
12 1 (0.034%) PowerHA
12 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.034%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 33 (1.14%) Ansible
2 27 (0.93%) SCCM
3 23 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 23 (0.79%) Terraform
3 23 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 20 (0.69%) vCenter Server
5 18 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.62%) SCOM
6 15 (0.52%) Grafana
6 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (0.48%) Puppet
7 14 (0.48%) WSUS
8 13 (0.45%) NetBackup
8 13 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.31%) Graylog
10 8 (0.28%) PingFederate
11 7 (0.24%) Kibana
11 7 (0.24%) logstash
12 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 421 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 247 (8.50%) SAP
3 100 (3.44%) Oracle
4 64 (2.20%) Cisco
5 49 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 48 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 44 (1.51%) Adobe
8 39 (1.34%) VMware
9 37 (1.27%) Google
9 37 (1.27%) Juniper
10 33 (1.14%) Dell
10 33 (1.14%) IBM
11 20 (0.69%) HP
11 20 (0.69%) Splunk
12 19 (0.65%) Ariba
12 19 (0.65%) Broadcom
12 19 (0.65%) CA
12 19 (0.65%) Palo Alto
13 17 (0.58%) EMC
13 17 (0.58%) Symantec