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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2,928 3,841 5,630
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.87% 7.56% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 8.37% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,835 2,644 3,846
10th Percentile £313 £348 £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% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 153 208
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.66 £30.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +47.95% +24.28%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £80.00 £67.66
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year -22.20% +44.54% +27.20%

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 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 1,345 £550 -2.22% 1,039
South East -6 411 £489 -2.25% 552
North of England -3 349 £500 - 482
South West +7 323 £525 - 287
East of England +8 206 £525 +5.00% 226
Midlands -3 205 £500 +2.56% 391
North West -6 191 £516 +3.25% 284
West Midlands +1 161 £525 +5.00% 240
Yorkshire +8 130 £500 -2.87% 159
East Midlands -10 41 £475 - 151
North East +17 30 £600 +50.00% 47
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
1 136 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.78%) Confluence
3 38 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.23%) CMS
5 13 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.34%) Drupal
6 10 (0.34%) SAS
7 6 (0.20%) Apache
8 5 (0.17%) Documentum
8 5 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.17%) WordPress
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
11 2 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 185 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 185 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 122 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
3 113 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
5 38 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.27%) Simulink
7 7 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.24%) InDesign
8 6 (0.20%) 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 (0.068%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.068%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 81 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.13%) Loan IQ
3 21 (0.72%) Primavera
4 11 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
4 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (0.27%) SAP HCM
6 8 (0.27%) SAP HR
6 8 (0.27%) SAP QM
6 8 (0.27%) SAP SD
6 8 (0.27%) Workfront
7 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.17%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 235 (8.03%) Azure
2 95 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (3.07%) Power Platform
4 86 (2.94%) AWS
5 54 (1.84%) SaaS
6 40 (1.37%) GitHub
7 37 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (1.16%) OCI
9 31 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (1.02%) GCP
11 27 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
12 19 (0.65%) PowerApps
13 18 (0.61%) Google Workspace
14 16 (0.55%) OneDrive
15 15 (0.51%) Slack
16 14 (0.48%) Entra ID
16 14 (0.48%) WhatsApp
17 13 (0.44%) Smartsheet
18 12 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
19 11 (0.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.74%) LAN
2 50 (1.71%) WAN
3 48 (1.64%) Firewall
4 46 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
5 44 (1.50%) VPN
6 33 (1.13%) DNS
7 30 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
8 26 (0.89%) Intranet
9 22 (0.75%) DHCP
9 22 (0.75%) Wireless
10 21 (0.72%) Network Security
10 21 (0.72%) SAN
11 19 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
12 16 (0.55%) 4G
13 15 (0.51%) TCP/IP
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 77 (2.63%) Power BI
2 35 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 18 (0.61%) MySQL
6 14 (0.48%) GIS
7 13 (0.44%) Big Data
7 13 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 11 (0.38%) Metadata
10 10 (0.34%) Data Mining
10 10 (0.34%) Tableau
11 8 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 7 (0.24%) EDMS
12 7 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.24%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 206 (7.04%) JIRA
2 30 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 25 (0.85%) Git
4 19 (0.65%) GitLab
5 11 (0.38%) Subversion
6 9 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.27%) TestRail
8 6 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.20%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.20%) Travis CI
8 6 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.17%) AppScan
9 5 (0.17%) Postman
10 4 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,217 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 912 (31.15%) Finance
3 440 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 188 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
6 178 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
7 157 (5.36%) Manufacturing
8 154 (5.26%) Banking
9 153 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
10 150 (5.12%) Marketing
11 135 (4.61%) Legal
12 132 (4.51%) Telecoms
13 92 (3.14%) Retail
14 77 (2.63%) Electronics
15 70 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 65 (2.22%) Local Government
17 60 (2.05%) Aerospace
18 51 (1.74%) Front Office
19 48 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 48 (1.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,041 (35.55%) Project Manager
2 267 (9.12%) Analyst
3 262 (8.95%) Lead
4 225 (7.68%) Senior
5 160 (5.46%) Architect
6 150 (5.12%) IT Manager
7 147 (5.02%) Business Analyst
8 131 (4.47%) Senior Manager
9 115 (3.93%) IT Project Manager
10 112 (3.83%) Consultant
11 99 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 96 (3.28%) Senior Project Manager
13 91 (3.11%) Technical Manager
14 79 (2.70%) Developer
14 79 (2.70%) Security Manager
15 78 (2.66%) Programme Manager
16 60 (2.05%) Technical Project Manager
17 59 (2.02%) Security Project Manager
18 54 (1.84%) Infrastructure Manager
19 47 (1.61%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (0.82%) XML
2 21 (0.72%) YAML
3 18 (0.61%) .NET
3 18 (0.61%) ADO
4 16 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (0.55%) React
5 15 (0.51%) AngularJS
6 14 (0.48%) Spring
7 12 (0.41%) EDI
8 9 (0.31%) CSS
8 9 (0.31%) JSON
9 7 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.24%) HTML
9 7 (0.24%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.17%) Middleware
11 5 (0.17%) Web Services
12 4 (0.14%) Kafka
12 4 (0.14%) Node.js
12 4 (0.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 151 (5.16%) Management Information System
2 75 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 58 (1.98%) Product Ownership
4 52 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
4 52 (1.78%) Onboarding
5 51 (1.74%) PMI
5 51 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (1.16%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.06%) Analogue Electronics
7 31 (1.06%) NHS
8 29 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (0.96%) Algorithms
10 27 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (0.92%) Life Science
11 22 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (0.72%) Derivative
13 19 (0.65%) Social Media
14 18 (0.61%) Mobile App
14 18 (0.61%) Public Cloud
15 16 (0.55%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 89 (3.04%) Windows
2 78 (2.66%) Linux
3 37 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.68%) zOS
6 19 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.44%) Android
9 13 (0.44%) Windows XP
10 12 (0.41%) Unix
11 6 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.20%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.10%) VMS
13 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.068%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (29.17%) Agile
2 684 (23.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 591 (20.18%) Project Delivery
4 578 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
5 448 (15.30%) PRINCE2
6 368 (12.57%) Change Management
7 295 (10.08%) Risk Management
8 262 (8.95%) Migration
9 260 (8.88%) Decision-Making
10 238 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 211 (7.21%) Programme Management
12 200 (6.83%) Scrum
13 194 (6.63%) Waterfall
14 179 (6.11%) Business Case
14 179 (6.11%) Project Planning
15 168 (5.74%) ITIL
16 156 (5.33%) Budget Management
17 154 (5.26%) DevOps
17 154 (5.26%) Roadmaps
18 152 (5.19%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 109 (3.72%) SQL
2 90 (3.07%) Python
3 59 (2.02%) PowerShell
4 40 (1.37%) Java
4 40 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 24 (0.82%) C#
6 20 (0.68%) C
7 19 (0.65%) Bash
8 16 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 15 (0.51%) JCL
9 15 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.41%) REXX
11 8 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 8 (0.27%) Scala
12 7 (0.24%) PHP
12 7 (0.24%) R
12 7 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.24%) XPath
12 7 (0.24%) XQuery
13 4 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 474 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 460 (15.71%) Degree
3 309 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 178 (6.08%) PMI Certification
5 175 (5.98%) PMP
6 149 (5.09%) DV Cleared
7 72 (2.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 54 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 37 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.26%) CISSP
11 36 (1.23%) APMP
12 29 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 28 (0.96%) CISM
14 27 (0.92%) CCNP
15 25 (0.85%) CCNA
16 24 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.55%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (10.48%) PMO
2 164 (5.60%) QA
3 50 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 37 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (0.92%) GDPR
7 26 (0.89%) JSP 440
7 26 (0.89%) SLA
8 14 (0.48%) NIST
9 10 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.34%) P3O
10 9 (0.31%) COBIT
10 9 (0.31%) ISO 9000
11 8 (0.27%) GxP
12 6 (0.20%) EMIR
12 6 (0.20%) GAMP
12 6 (0.20%) ISO 26262
12 6 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 28 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (0.79%) Docker
4 19 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.55%) NFS
6 15 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
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 (1.13%) Ansible
2 26 (0.89%) SCCM
3 23 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 23 (0.79%) Terraform
3 23 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 19 (0.65%) vCenter Server
5 18 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.58%) SCOM
7 15 (0.51%) Grafana
7 15 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.48%) Puppet
9 13 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.44%) WSUS
10 12 (0.41%) NetBackup
11 9 (0.31%) Graylog
12 8 (0.27%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.24%) Kibana
13 7 (0.24%) logstash
14 6 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 416 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 248 (8.47%) SAP
3 98 (3.35%) Oracle
4 63 (2.15%) Cisco
5 49 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 48 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 44 (1.50%) Adobe
8 38 (1.30%) Google
9 37 (1.26%) VMware
10 36 (1.23%) Juniper
11 33 (1.13%) IBM
12 32 (1.09%) Dell
13 20 (0.68%) CA
13 20 (0.68%) Splunk
14 19 (0.65%) Broadcom
14 19 (0.65%) HP
15 18 (0.61%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.58%) Ariba
17 16 (0.55%) EMC
17 16 (0.55%) Symantec