Project Management Contracts in Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Project Management West Yorkshire / Leeds
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	17	32	10
Rank change year-on-year	+15	-22
Contract jobs citing Project Management	91	83	169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds	8.30%	5.50%	11.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	9.36%	6.16%	12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	65	54	132
Median daily rate	£400	£425	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-5.88%	+9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£315	£280
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£534	£575	£530
UK excluding London median daily rate	£420	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	3	2
Median hourly rate	-	£14.50	£175.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-91.71%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£24.75	£27.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-10.00%	-21.42%

Project Management is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills Leeds
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	972	1347	1308
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds	88.61%	89.21%	87.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	665	959	973
Median daily rate	£403	£425	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-5.29%	+21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£320	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£565	£515
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£383
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	9	12	22
Median hourly rate	£15.25	£14.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.17%	-12.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£10.20	£9.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£29.34	£170.00	£175.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.50	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+17.54%	-5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Leeds citing Project Management as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Project Management in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate trend for Project Management in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Project Management in Leeds over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Project Management in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Project Management in Leeds

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Leeds

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Project Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the Leeds region with a requirement for Project Management.

1	63 (37.50%)	Finance
2	56 (33.33%)	Agile Software Development
3	51 (30.36%)	Stakeholder Management
4	27 (16.07%)	PRINCE2
5	26 (15.48%)	Microsoft
6	24 (14.29%)	Scrum
6	24 (14.29%)	Degree
7	23 (13.69%)	Microsoft Office
7	23 (13.69%)	SQL
7	23 (13.69%)	Waterfall
7	23 (13.69%)	Analytical Skills
8	22 (13.10%)	Change Management
9	21 (12.50%)	PMO
10	17 (10.12%)	Project Planning
11	15 (8.93%)	Microsoft Project

11	15 (8.93%)	E-Commerce
11	15 (8.93%)	Analytics
12	14 (8.33%)	Project Governance
12	14 (8.33%)	ITIL
12	14 (8.33%)	.NET
12	14 (8.33%)	Telecoms
12	14 (8.33%)	Business Analysis
12	14 (8.33%)	Resource Management
13	13 (7.74%)	Legal
14	12 (7.14%)	SQL Server
14	12 (7.14%)	Windows
14	12 (7.14%)	Product Management
15	11 (6.55%)	Continuous Improvement
15	11 (6.55%)	JavaScript
15	11 (6.55%)	Migration

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Co-occurring IT Skills in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	9 (5.36%)	SharePoint
2	6 (3.57%)	CMS
2	6 (3.57%)	IIS
2	6 (3.57%)	MS Project Server
3	5 (2.98%)	SAS
4	3 (1.79%)	Confluence
4	3 (1.79%)	Sitecore CMS
5	1 (0.60%)	OpenStack
5	1 (0.60%)	Umbraco

Applications
1	23 (13.69%)	Microsoft Office
2	15 (8.93%)	Microsoft Project
3	11 (6.55%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	8 (4.76%)	MS Visio
5	7 (4.17%)	Microsoft Excel
6	4 (2.38%)	Stata

Business Applications
1	7 (4.17%)	Dynamics AX
2	1 (0.60%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.60%)	Oracle Cash Management
2	1 (0.60%)	Oracle EBS
2	1 (0.60%)	Oracle EBS R12
2	1 (0.60%)	Oracle General Ledger
2	1 (0.60%)	Oracle iProcurement
2	1 (0.60%)	Oracle Payables
2	1 (0.60%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay

Cloud Services
1	6 (3.57%)	Office 365
2	5 (2.98%)	Amazon AWS
3	3 (1.79%)	SaaS
4	1 (0.60%)	Basecamp
4	1 (0.60%)	Cloud Computing
4	1 (0.60%)	GitHub
4	1 (0.60%)	Google Analytics
4	1 (0.60%)	IaaS
4	1 (0.60%)	Microsoft Azure
4	1 (0.60%)	PaaS

Communications & Networking
1	7 (4.17%)	Internet
1	7 (4.17%)	WAN
2	6 (3.57%)	Firewall
2	6 (3.57%)	LAN
3	5 (2.98%)	DHCP
3	5 (2.98%)	DNS
3	5 (2.98%)	VLAN
3	5 (2.98%)	Wi-Fi
4	1 (0.60%)	CTI

Database & Business Intelligence
1	12 (7.14%)	SQL Server
2	7 (4.17%)	MongoDB
3	6 (3.57%)	Big Data
3	6 (3.57%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	5 (2.98%)	MS Access
4	5 (2.98%)	NoSQL
5	4 (2.38%)	Data Mining
5	4 (2.38%)	Pentaho
6	3 (1.79%)	Data Warehouse
7	2 (1.19%)	MySQL
7	2 (1.19%)	Relational Database
8	1 (0.60%)	Apache Cassandra
8	1 (0.60%)	Base SAS
8	1 (0.60%)	Data Lake
8	1 (0.60%)	SAS Data Integration Studio
8	1 (0.60%)	SAS Enterprise Guide

Development Applications
1	9 (5.36%)	JIRA
1	9 (5.36%)	Visual Studio
2	6 (3.57%)	Git (software)
3	3 (1.79%)	Android Studio
3	3 (1.79%)	Eclipse
3	3 (1.79%)	Hudson
3	3 (1.79%)	Jenkins
3	3 (1.79%)	Talend Open Studio
4	2 (1.19%)	FitNesse
4	2 (1.19%)	JUnit
4	2 (1.19%)	NUnit
4	2 (1.19%)	Selenium
4	2 (1.19%)	SpecFlow
4	2 (1.19%)	Subversion
5	1 (0.60%)	Cucumber

General
1	63 (37.50%)	Finance
2	14 (8.33%)	Telecoms
3	13 (7.74%)	Legal
4	9 (5.36%)	Marketing
5	7 (4.17%)	Banking
5	7 (4.17%)	Retail
6	2 (1.19%)	Electronics
7	1 (0.60%)	Games
7	1 (0.60%)	iGaming
7	1 (0.60%)	Law
7	1 (0.60%)	Pharmaceutical
7	1 (0.60%)	Portuguese Language

Job Titles
1	75 (44.64%)	Project Manager
2	35 (20.83%)	Analyst
3	17 (10.12%)	PMO Analyst
4	11 (6.55%)	Infrastructure Manager
4	11 (6.55%)	Infrastructure Project Manager
4	11 (6.55%)	Project Analyst
4	11 (6.55%)	Senior Manager
5	10 (5.95%)	Digital Project Manager
6	9 (5.36%)	Business Analyst
7	8 (4.76%)	Consultant
7	8 (4.76%)	Developer
8	6 (3.57%)	Contracts Manager
8	6 (3.57%)	Delivery Project Manager
8	6 (3.57%)	Development Manager
8	6 (3.57%)	Dynamics AX Consultant
8	6 (3.57%)	ERP Consultant
8	6 (3.57%)	Programme Manager
8	6 (3.57%)	Senior Project Manager
9	5 (2.98%)	Scrum Master
9	5 (2.98%)	Software Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	14 (8.33%)	.NET
2	9 (5.36%)	Web Services
3	8 (4.76%)	HTML
3	8 (4.76%)	jQuery
4	6 (3.57%)	REST
4	6 (3.57%)	SOAP
4	6 (3.57%)	XML
5	5 (2.98%)	.NET Framework
6	3 (1.79%)	ASP.NET
6	3 (1.79%)	CSS
7	2 (1.19%)	Apache CXF
7	2 (1.19%)	ASP.NET MVC
7	2 (1.19%)	CSS3
7	2 (1.19%)	HTML5
8	1 (0.60%)	Middleware
8	1 (0.60%)	Play Framework
8	1 (0.60%)	RESTful
8	1 (0.60%)	XHTML
8	1 (0.60%)	XSD
8	1 (0.60%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	23 (13.69%)	Analytical Skills
2	7 (4.17%)	NHS
3	4 (2.38%)	Data Centre
3	4 (2.38%)	User Experience
4	3 (1.79%)	Mobile App
4	3 (1.79%)	Private Cloud
4	3 (1.79%)	Virtual Team
5	2 (1.19%)	Management Information System
5	2 (1.19%)	Online Banking
6	1 (0.60%)	e-Learning
6	1 (0.60%)	FMCG
6	1 (0.60%)	IVR
6	1 (0.60%)	PMI
6	1 (0.60%)	Public Cloud
6	1 (0.60%)	Social Media

Operating Systems
1	12 (7.14%)	Windows
2	7 (4.17%)	Android
2	7 (4.17%)	Linux
3	3 (1.79%)	Embedded Linux
3	3 (1.79%)	Windows 7
4	2 (1.19%)	Apple iOS
4	2 (1.19%)	Windows Embedded Compact
5	1 (0.60%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	1 (0.60%)	Unix

Processes & Methodologies
1	56 (33.33%)	Agile Software Development
2	51 (30.36%)	Stakeholder Management
3	27 (16.07%)	PRINCE2
4	24 (14.29%)	Scrum
5	23 (13.69%)	Waterfall
6	22 (13.10%)	Change Management
7	17 (10.12%)	Project Planning
8	15 (8.93%)	Analytics
8	15 (8.93%)	E-Commerce
9	14 (8.33%)	Business Analysis
9	14 (8.33%)	ITIL
9	14 (8.33%)	Project Governance
9	14 (8.33%)	Resource Management
10	12 (7.14%)	Product Management
11	11 (6.55%)	Continuous Improvement
11	11 (6.55%)	Migration
11	11 (6.55%)	Supplier Management
12	10 (5.95%)	Programme Management
13	9 (5.36%)	CRM
13	9 (5.36%)	ERP

Programming Languages
1	23 (13.69%)	SQL
2	11 (6.55%)	JavaScript
3	8 (4.76%)	C#
3	8 (4.76%)	Java
4	6 (3.57%)	Python
4	6 (3.57%)	VBA
5	5 (2.98%)	Delphi
6	4 (2.38%)	T-SQL
7	3 (1.79%)	Bash Shell
7	3 (1.79%)	C
7	3 (1.79%)	C++
8	1 (0.60%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	24 (14.29%)	Degree
2	10 (5.95%)	PMP
3	6 (3.57%)	ISEB
3	6 (3.57%)	PMI Certification
4	5 (2.98%)	Security Cleared
5	3 (1.79%)	BPSS Clearance
5	3 (1.79%)	ISTQB
5	3 (1.79%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
6	2 (1.19%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
6	2 (1.19%)	SC Cleared
7	1 (0.60%)	AWS Certification
7	1 (0.60%)	Chartered Engineer
7	1 (0.60%)	Cisco Certification
7	1 (0.60%)	CISSP
7	1 (0.60%)	CTC Cleared
7	1 (0.60%)	ITIL Certification
7	1 (0.60%)	Master's Degree
7	1 (0.60%)	MCIPD
7	1 (0.60%)	SAS Certification
7	1 (0.60%)	Six Sigma Green Belt

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (12.50%)	PMO
2	9 (5.36%)	Data Quality
3	5 (2.98%)	QA
4	4 (2.38%)	GDPR
5	2 (1.19%)	IFRS
5	2 (1.19%)	IFRS 9
6	1 (0.60%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	1 (0.60%)	P3O
6	1 (0.60%)	PMBOK

System Software
1	1 (0.60%)	Active Directory
1	1 (0.60%)	Hyper-V
1	1 (0.60%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	4 (2.38%)	Puppet
2	3 (1.79%)	McAfee ePO
3	2 (1.19%)	HP Quality Center
4	1 (0.60%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	26 (15.48%)	Microsoft
2	5 (2.98%)	Oracle
3	3 (1.79%)	IBM
3	3 (1.79%)	Informatica
3	3 (1.79%)	McAfee
3	3 (1.79%)	ServiceNow
3	3 (1.79%)	Sitecore
3	3 (1.79%)	Talend
4	2 (1.19%)	Avaya
4	2 (1.19%)	BMC
4	2 (1.19%)	Cisco
5	1 (0.60%)	CheckPoint
5	1 (0.60%)	Citrix
5	1 (0.60%)	Genesys
5	1 (0.60%)	Google
5	1 (0.60%)	Progress
5	1 (0.60%)	Red Hat
5	1 (0.60%)	Salesforce.com
5	1 (0.60%)	Siebel
5	1 (0.60%)	Verint