Project Management Contracts in Lancashire

Project Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 23
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 10 23 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.52% 8.91% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 12.04% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 9
10th Percentile £519 £313 £284
25th Percentile £530 £322 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £494 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% +16.18% -8.11%
75th Percentile - £614 £438
90th Percentile - £702 £493
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 £25.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +220.16% - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +71.43% - +3.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 191 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 88.95% 74.03% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 74 108
10th Percentile £363 £248 £284
25th Percentile £438 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.52% -3.40%
75th Percentile £614 £611 £596
90th Percentile £661 £656 £700
North West median daily rate £461 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -6.77% -1.05% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 65 48
10th Percentile £15.69 - £20.49
25th Percentile £22.87 £16.06 £27.06
Median hourly rate £28.75 £35.36 £41.37
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% -14.53% +19.92%
75th Percentile £63.20 £45.88 £49.52
90th Percentile £68.81 £48.00 £54.26
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +4.92% +1.67% +27.42%

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
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 23 June 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
Preston -7 3 £550 -7.23% 66
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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (20.00%) Simulink
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA Agile
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (20.00%) Aeronautics
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Avionics
4 1 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (40.00%) IT Manager
2 4 (40.00%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Design Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Development Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) SAP Financial Leader
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) LIMS
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Physics
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Safety Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) SysML
3 2 (20.00%) System Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) GxP
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) MathWorks
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle