Project Planning Contracts in England

Project Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 250 309
Rank change year-on-year -3 +59 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 248 344 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 0.92% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.07% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 207 269
10th Percentile £313 £258 £373
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £630
90th Percentile £648 £660 £769
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 21
10th Percentile £17.42 £23.96 £23.08
25th Percentile £28.18 £32.98 £41.50
Median hourly rate £46.30 £56.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +14.80% +10.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.90 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £56.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% +14.80% +10.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Project Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
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 Planning 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
London +6 96 £515 -6.36% 110
North of England +25 50 £500 - 51
Midlands +35 40 £500 +5.26% 47
South East +23 35 £425 +6.25% 82
West Midlands +23 30 £500 +5.26% 24
North West +25 28 £500 +1.27% 24
Yorkshire +7 18 £506 +1.25% 15
South West +3 16 £488 +14.71% 37
East Midlands +16 10 £425 -30.04% 18
East of England +22 4 - - 31
North East -1 4 £538 +65.38% 12
Project Planning
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Project Planning
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 11 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.03%) Confluence
3 2 (0.81%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Appian
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 38 (15.32%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (4.03%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.61%) Trello
7 2 (0.81%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.63%) Primavera
3 6 (2.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 5 (2.02%) SAP PS
5 3 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.81%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.81%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.05%) AWS
2 12 (4.84%) Azure
3 7 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (2.82%) Amazon Glacier
3 7 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
3 7 (2.82%) Amazon S3
3 7 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (2.82%) Lucidchart
3 7 (2.82%) Serverless
4 5 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.61%) Smartsheet
6 3 (1.21%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.21%) SaaS
7 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.81%) Matillion
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.81%) PaaS
7 2 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.23%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (1.21%) Firewall
2 3 (1.21%) Network Security
2 3 (1.21%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.21%) WAN
3 2 (0.81%) Intranet
3 2 (0.81%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) 4G
4 1 (0.40%) 5G
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
4 1 (0.40%) MQTT
4 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.61%) Power BI
5 3 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.21%) Tableau
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.40%) MySQL
7 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (11.29%) JIRA
2 8 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.61%) Git
4 3 (1.21%) Plastic SCM
5 2 (0.81%) GitLab
5 2 (0.81%) Maven
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 119 (47.98%) Social Skills
2 92 (37.10%) Finance
3 36 (14.52%) Organisational Skills
4 33 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.85%) Legal
6 12 (4.84%) Banking
6 12 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.63%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.23%) Retail
9 7 (2.82%) Marketing
10 6 (2.42%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.42%) Automotive
11 5 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.02%) Local Government
11 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.61%) Games
12 4 (1.61%) Law
13 3 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (33.47%) Project Manager
2 26 (10.48%) Senior
3 24 (9.68%) Architect
4 20 (8.06%) Analyst
5 18 (7.26%) Lead
6 15 (6.05%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.65%) Project Planner
8 13 (5.24%) Senior Manager
9 11 (4.44%) Senior Project Manager
9 11 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.03%) Infrastructure Manager
10 10 (4.03%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 9 (3.63%) Consultant
11 9 (3.63%) IT Manager
11 9 (3.63%) IT Project Manager
11 9 (3.63%) Technical Manager
12 8 (3.23%) Change Manager
12 8 (3.23%) Engagement Manager
12 8 (3.23%) Programme Manager
12 8 (3.23%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
1 7 (2.82%) Kafka
1 7 (2.82%) RESTful
2 5 (2.02%) PySpark
3 4 (1.61%) CSS
4 3 (1.21%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (0.81%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) .NET
6 1 (0.40%) HTML
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.40%) POSIX
6 1 (0.40%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.40%) XML
6 1 (0.40%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.03%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.23%) PMI
2 8 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.82%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.42%) Blockchain
4 6 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.42%) Driving Licence
4 6 (2.42%) IoT
4 6 (2.42%) Life Science
4 6 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.21%) Infotainment
8 2 (0.81%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.02%) Linux
1 5 (2.02%) Windows
2 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) HPUX
3 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Solaris
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (51.21%) Project Management
2 92 (37.10%) Agile
3 86 (34.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (24.19%) Risk Management
6 57 (22.98%) Project Delivery
7 55 (22.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (16.94%) Migration
9 39 (15.73%) PRINCE2
10 38 (15.32%) Change Management
11 30 (12.10%) Waterfall
12 28 (11.29%) Budget Management
13 23 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (8.87%) DevOps
15 21 (8.47%) Roadmaps
16 20 (8.06%) Decision-Making
16 20 (8.06%) Requirements Gathering
17 19 (7.66%) Resource Allocation
17 19 (7.66%) Time Management
18 17 (6.85%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.84%) Python
2 11 (4.44%) SQL
3 9 (3.63%) Java
4 5 (2.02%) C#
5 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.21%) Bash
7 2 (0.81%) COBOL
7 2 (0.81%) Perl
7 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.40%) C
8 1 (0.40%) C++
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) Go
8 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.40%) R
8 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (14.52%) Degree
2 34 (13.71%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.69%) PMI Certification
4 24 (9.68%) PMP
5 21 (8.47%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.21%) CBAP
8 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) ISACA
10 1 (0.40%) ISEB
10 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.87%) PMO
2 21 (8.47%) QA
3 8 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.42%) PMBOK
5 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.61%) GDPR
6 2 (0.81%) COBIT
6 2 (0.81%) COSHH
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) EMIR
6 2 (0.81%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.81%) MiFID
6 2 (0.81%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) GxP
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.40%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (4.03%) Docker
2 7 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.81%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.40%) SCSM
3 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.48%) SAP
3 11 (4.44%) Oracle
4 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.21%) Google
4 3 (1.21%) Remedy
4 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.21%) Workday
5 2 (0.81%) Adobe
5 2 (0.81%) Capita
5 2 (0.81%) Cisco
5 2 (0.81%) Civica
5 2 (0.81%) Cramer
5 2 (0.81%) Infoblox
5 2 (0.81%) NEC
5 2 (0.81%) Northgate
5 2 (0.81%) Perforce
5 2 (0.81%) Progress
5 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.81%) Splunk