Project Management Contracts in Gloucestershire

Project Management
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 17 5 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Management 24 83 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.76% 19.35% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.04% 22.55% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 23
10th Percentile £246 £435 £400
25th Percentile £413 £513 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £588
90th Percentile £535 £706 £648
South West median daily rate £472 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -9.01% -5.68% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £28.81 - -
25th Percentile £31.50 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.50 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -2.86% +8.02%
75th Percentile £57.75 £61.25 £39.55
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.71 £51.33
South West median hourly rate £58.75 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +67.86% -46.15% +283.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 368 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.23% 85.78% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 230 307
10th Percentile £237 £363 £295
25th Percentile £413 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 37
10th Percentile £25.56 £14.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £19.57 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Gloucestershire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Gloucestershire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Gloucestershire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Gloucestershire

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Gloucestershire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester -8 10 £450 -23.40% 38
Filton +4 3 - - 3
Cheltenham -15 3 £494 -5.95% 37
Tewkesbury - 1 - - 6
Project Management
South West

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) MS Project Server
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) Google Workspace
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) BGP
1 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
1 1 (4.17%) VoIP
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
1 1 (4.17%) WAN
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
1 1 (4.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GCC
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Local Government
4 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Avionics
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) SAP Manager
3 3 (12.50%) SAP Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) IT Support
4 2 (8.33%) Procurement Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Procurement Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Workstream Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Workstream Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Juniper Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Project Supervisor
5 1 (4.17%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
1 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Migration
3 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (20.83%) Risk Management
4 4 (16.67%) Application Security
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.67%) Data Management
4 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) Security Patching
5 3 (12.50%) Software Licensing
5 3 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) APMP
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) IIBA
4 1 (4.17%) ISEB
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 3 (12.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (25.00%) SAP
2 4 (16.67%) McAfee
2 4 (16.67%) Symantec
3 3 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (8.33%) Ariba
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Aruba
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) FireEye
5 1 (4.17%) Juniper
5 1 (4.17%) Meraki