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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2,900 3,791 5,652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.87% 7.58% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 8.40% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,808 2,616 3,867
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 150 203
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.33 £30.06 £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 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year -22.20% +44.54% +25.56%

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 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 1,309 £550 -4.35% 936
South East -6 412 £488 -2.50% 534
North of England -1 348 £500 - 526
South West +10 333 £519 -5.68% 296
Midlands 0 206 £500 - 438
East of England +6 205 £525 +5.00% 241
North West -2 193 £505 +2.28% 321
West Midlands +2 160 £525 +5.00% 278
Yorkshire +5 127 £500 -4.76% 159
East Midlands -4 45 £488 +2.63% 160
North East +20 30 £600 +50.00% 54
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
1 134 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 59 (2.03%) Confluence
3 37 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (1.21%) 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
9 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
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
11 2 (0.069%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 196 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 195 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
3 130 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
4 114 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 54 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
6 43 (1.48%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.28%) Simulink
8 7 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.24%) InDesign
9 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.17%) Revit
10 5 (0.17%) Stateflow
10 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
11 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.14%) Trello
12 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.069%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 80 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.03%) Loan IQ
3 20 (0.69%) Primavera
4 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
6 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
6 8 (0.28%) Workfront
7 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.24%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 238 (8.21%) Azure
2 100 (3.45%) Power Platform
3 92 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (3.10%) AWS
5 62 (2.14%) SaaS
6 40 (1.38%) GitHub
7 39 (1.34%) OCI
8 36 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.03%) GCP
10 29 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
12 20 (0.69%) PowerApps
13 18 (0.62%) Google Workspace
14 16 (0.55%) Slack
15 15 (0.52%) Entra ID
15 15 (0.52%) OneDrive
16 13 (0.45%) Smartsheet
16 13 (0.45%) WhatsApp
17 12 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.83%) WAN
2 51 (1.76%) Firewall
3 46 (1.59%) VPN
3 46 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
4 45 (1.55%) LAN
5 35 (1.21%) DNS
6 27 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
7 24 (0.83%) DHCP
7 24 (0.83%) Intranet
8 23 (0.79%) SAN
9 22 (0.76%) Wireless
10 21 (0.72%) Network Security
11 20 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
12 16 (0.55%) 4G
12 16 (0.55%) TCP/IP
13 13 (0.45%) Internet
14 11 (0.38%) 3GPP
14 11 (0.38%) LTE
14 11 (0.38%) VoIP
14 11 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (3.07%) Power BI
2 41 (1.41%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (0.62%) Relational Database
5 16 (0.55%) MySQL
6 13 (0.45%) GIS
6 13 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.41%) Big Data
7 12 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.41%) Tableau
8 11 (0.38%) Metadata
9 10 (0.34%) Data Mining
9 10 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 9 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 7 (0.24%) EDMS
12 7 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.21%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 222 (7.66%) JIRA
2 29 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 26 (0.90%) Git
4 19 (0.66%) GitLab
5 13 (0.45%) Subversion
6 9 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.28%) TestRail
8 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.21%) Postman
9 6 (0.21%) Travis CI
10 5 (0.17%) AppScan
10 5 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.14%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.14%) Selenium
11 4 (0.14%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,205 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 893 (30.79%) Finance
3 449 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 181 (6.24%) Presentation Skills
6 180 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
7 156 (5.38%) Banking
8 152 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
9 149 (5.14%) Manufacturing
10 146 (5.03%) Marketing
11 132 (4.55%) Legal
12 125 (4.31%) Telecoms
13 87 (3.00%) Retail
14 73 (2.52%) Electronics
15 67 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 65 (2.24%) Local Government
17 61 (2.10%) Aerospace
18 49 (1.69%) Front Office
19 47 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 44 (1.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,023 (35.28%) Project Manager
2 267 (9.21%) Lead
3 265 (9.14%) Analyst
4 221 (7.62%) Senior
5 163 (5.62%) Architect
6 146 (5.03%) Business Analyst
7 141 (4.86%) IT Manager
8 127 (4.38%) Senior Manager
9 110 (3.79%) IT Project Manager
10 107 (3.69%) Consultant
11 94 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 90 (3.10%) Senior Project Manager
13 85 (2.93%) Technical Manager
14 80 (2.76%) Developer
15 76 (2.62%) Programme Manager
16 75 (2.59%) Security Manager
17 56 (1.93%) Technical Project Manager
18 55 (1.90%) Infrastructure Manager
18 55 (1.90%) Security Project Manager
19 47 (1.62%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.86%) XML
2 23 (0.79%) .NET
2 23 (0.79%) YAML
3 21 (0.72%) React
4 17 (0.59%) ADO
5 16 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 15 (0.52%) Spring
7 13 (0.45%) EDI
8 11 (0.38%) JSON
9 8 (0.28%) CSS
10 7 (0.24%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.24%) Web Services
11 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.21%) HTML
12 4 (0.14%) Kafka
12 4 (0.14%) Middleware
12 4 (0.14%) Node.js
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 148 (5.10%) Management Information System
2 75 (2.59%) Data Centre
3 62 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 54 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 53 (1.83%) PMI
6 52 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 52 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.10%) Analogue Electronics
8 31 (1.07%) NHS
8 31 (1.07%) Virtual Team
9 29 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 29 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 26 (0.90%) Life Science
12 24 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.72%) Social Media
14 20 (0.69%) Derivative
14 20 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (0.66%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 88 (3.03%) Windows
2 79 (2.72%) Linux
3 39 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (0.69%) Android
6 20 (0.69%) zOS
7 18 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.52%) Unix
9 15 (0.52%) Windows XP
10 11 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.21%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.10%) VMS
13 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.069%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (29.83%) Agile
2 679 (23.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 596 (20.55%) Project Delivery
4 583 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
5 449 (15.48%) PRINCE2
6 356 (12.28%) Change Management
7 286 (9.86%) Risk Management
8 261 (9.00%) Migration
9 258 (8.90%) Decision-Making
10 244 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 203 (7.00%) Scrum
12 202 (6.97%) Programme Management
13 197 (6.79%) Waterfall
14 191 (6.59%) Project Planning
15 176 (6.07%) Business Case
16 157 (5.41%) DevOps
16 157 (5.41%) ITIL
17 155 (5.34%) Roadmaps
18 152 (5.24%) Budget Management
19 151 (5.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 109 (3.76%) SQL
2 92 (3.17%) Python
3 63 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 48 (1.66%) Java
5 41 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 28 (0.97%) C
7 23 (0.79%) C#
8 21 (0.72%) Bash
9 16 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 15 (0.52%) JCL
10 15 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.41%) REXX
12 9 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.28%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.28%) Scala
14 7 (0.24%) R
14 7 (0.24%) XPath
14 7 (0.24%) XQuery
15 5 (0.17%) C++
15 5 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 473 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 453 (15.62%) Degree
3 303 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 183 (6.31%) PMI Certification
5 176 (6.07%) PMP
6 156 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 66 (2.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 57 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (1.52%) APMP
10 42 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 37 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.28%) CISSP
12 30 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 28 (0.97%) CCNA
14 27 (0.93%) CCNP
14 27 (0.93%) CISM
15 22 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 19 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.48%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (10.93%) PMO
2 161 (5.55%) QA
3 48 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.14%) GDPR
6 30 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.93%) SLA
8 26 (0.90%) JSP 440
9 14 (0.48%) NIST
10 10 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.34%) GxP
11 9 (0.31%) P3O
11 9 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.21%) Basel III
13 6 (0.21%) EMIR
13 6 (0.21%) GAMP
13 6 (0.21%) IFRS
13 6 (0.21%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 63 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (0.79%) Docker
4 21 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.55%) NFS
7 15 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) ACF2
11 4 (0.14%) RACF
11 4 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.10%) KVM
12 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) vSphere
13 1 (0.034%) iptables
13 1 (0.034%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.034%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 34 (1.17%) Ansible
2 28 (0.97%) SCCM
3 24 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 24 (0.83%) Terraform
4 23 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 21 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 19 (0.66%) SCOM
7 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (0.52%) Grafana
8 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.52%) WSUS
9 14 (0.48%) NetBackup
9 14 (0.48%) Puppet
10 13 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.31%) Graylog
12 8 (0.28%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.24%) Kibana
13 7 (0.24%) logstash
14 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 434 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 237 (8.17%) SAP
3 101 (3.48%) Oracle
4 67 (2.31%) Cisco
5 48 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 47 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 44 (1.52%) Adobe
8 40 (1.38%) VMware
9 38 (1.31%) Google
10 37 (1.28%) Juniper
11 34 (1.17%) Dell
12 33 (1.14%) IBM
13 21 (0.72%) Splunk
14 20 (0.69%) Ariba
14 20 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.66%) Broadcom
15 19 (0.66%) CA
15 19 (0.66%) HP
16 18 (0.62%) EMC
16 18 (0.62%) Symantec