Project Management Contracts in Essex

Project Management
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management 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 18 22 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2 10 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 2.50% 4.50% 14.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 5.56% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 26
10th Percentile - £481 £261
25th Percentile - £509 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +12.50% -4.42%
75th Percentile - £588 £530
90th Percentile - - £538
East of England median daily rate £519 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +5.00% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £26.30
25th Percentile - £12.13 £32.00
Median hourly rate - £12.25 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.51% +79.17%
75th Percentile - £35.65 £57.38
90th Percentile - - £65.11
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £60.00
% change year-on-year +44.28% -36.47% +140.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

Project Management 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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.00% 81.08% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Essex

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Essex

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Essex

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Brentwood +8 2 £400 - 1
Project Management
East of England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) DTV Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Digital TV
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (100.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++