Project Manager Contracts in Glasgow

Project Manager
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Project Manager daily rate in Glasgow is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 50 18
Rank change year-on-year +11 -32 0
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 44 32 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.51% 3.65% 9.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.78% 3.84% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 75
10th Percentile £413 £325 £363
25th Percentile £449 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £575
90th Percentile £587 £600 £588
Scotland median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.56% +4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +62.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Glasgow

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Glasgow

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Glasgow

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Glasgow

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 33 (75.00%) Project Management
2 29 (65.91%) Finance
3 21 (47.73%) Project Delivery
4 16 (36.36%) Agile
5 13 (29.55%) PRINCE2
6 12 (27.27%) Banking
6 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
7 10 (22.73%) Budget Management
7 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (20.45%) PMI Certification
8 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
8 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (20.45%) Waterfall
9 8 (18.18%) Degree
9 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
9 8 (18.18%) Change Management
10 7 (15.91%) Project Planning
11 6 (13.64%) PMP
11 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (11.36%) Business Case
12 5 (11.36%) Programme Management
12 5 (11.36%) PMI
12 5 (11.36%) Azure
12 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
13 4 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
13 4 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
13 4 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
13 4 (9.09%) PMO

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) Azure
2 1 (2.27%) Asana
2 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) WAN
1 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.27%) 4G
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 29 (65.91%) Finance
2 12 (27.27%) Banking
2 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Local Government
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Legal
8 1 (2.27%) Marketing
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) PMI
2 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) Robotics
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (75.00%) Project Management
2 21 (47.73%) Project Delivery
3 16 (36.36%) Agile
4 13 (29.55%) PRINCE2
5 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (22.73%) Budget Management
7 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.45%) Waterfall
8 8 (18.18%) Change Management
8 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (15.91%) Project Planning
10 5 (11.36%) Business Case
10 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
10 5 (11.36%) Programme Management
11 4 (9.09%) Customer Experience
11 4 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (9.09%) Migration
11 4 (9.09%) Risk Management
11 4 (9.09%) Scrum
11 4 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) PMI Certification
2 8 (18.18%) Degree
3 6 (13.64%) PMP
4 3 (6.82%) APMP
4 3 (6.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.27%) HND
6 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Pega
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco
4 2 (4.55%) BT
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Blue Prism
5 1 (2.27%) Citrix
5 1 (2.27%) Openreach
5 1 (2.27%) Snow
5 1 (2.27%) VMware