Project Management Contracts in Lancashire

Project Management
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 21 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 10.77% 7.02% 6.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.64% 8.06% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 13
10th Percentile £313 £413 £307
25th Percentile £341 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +22.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £656 - £550
90th Percentile £741 - £584
North West median daily rate £516 £500 £440
% change year-on-year +3.22% +13.64% -2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £28.24 £17.52
25th Percentile - £34.65 £19.43
Median hourly rate - £46.25 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year - +53.62% -34.89%
75th Percentile - £56.93 £47.33
90th Percentile - £62.79 £56.56
North West median hourly rate £35.95 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.71% - +55.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 211 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 78.97% 87.19% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 118 156
10th Percentile £313 £339 £230
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £477
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +11.52% +19.37%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £578
90th Percentile £747 £700 £706
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 42 47
10th Percentile - £22.31 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.06 £28.85 £16.93
Median hourly rate £19.18 £42.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +7.59% -3.66%
75th Percentile £46.03 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £48.00 £53.43 £60.34
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Lancashire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Lancashire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Lancashire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Lancashire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Lancashire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Preston +12 7 £593 - 9
Fleetwood - 4 £588 -
Blackburn -1 1 £600 - 6
Lancaster - 1 £800 -
Project Management
North West

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Project Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Programme Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.52%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Design
5 1 (4.76%) IT Programme Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) SOX Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) NHS
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) PRINCE2
2 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (38.10%) Waterfall
4 6 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) Business Case
5 4 (19.05%) Conflict Resolution
5 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
5 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Information Security
5 4 (19.05%) ITSM
5 4 (19.05%) People Management
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
5 4 (19.05%) Programme Governance
5 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
5 4 (19.05%) Service Management
6 3 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) PMO
2 2 (9.52%) P3O
3 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Cadence
2 1 (4.76%) Blue Prism