Project Management Contracts in the Home Counties

Project Management
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 2 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 28.57% - 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 8 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 85.71% 100.00% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £473 £423
25th Percentile - £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £573 £688
90th Percentile - £589 £1,100
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the Home Counties

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the Home Counties

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IT Director
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Demand Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) WFM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Workday