Project Management Contracts in Leicestershire

Project Management
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Management 7 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 6.25% 4.64% 7.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 6.14% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 10
10th Percentile - £185 £401
25th Percentile £463 £333 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £488 £423
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +15.38% -23.18%
75th Percentile £792 £569 £469
90th Percentile £857 £645 £725
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.68% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.30 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £18.00 £28.71
% change year-on-year +18.83% -37.30% +4.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 92 114 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 82.14% 75.50% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 84 131
10th Percentile £134 £195 £209
25th Percentile £250 £274 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £437 £415
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +5.30% +3.11%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £469
90th Percentile £580 £625 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £18.78 £14.45 £12.88
25th Percentile £19.20 £18.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.15 £22.75 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +11.96% +9.84%
75th Percentile £20.85 £25.56 £21.65
90th Percentile £21.12 £27.48 £22.53
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £26.99
% change year-on-year +10.38% -37.01% +25.53%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Leicestershire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Leicestershire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Leicestershire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Leicestershire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Leicester +1 3 £606 +10.23% 26
Loughborough - 1 - - 2
Lutterworth - 1 - - 2
Project Management
East Midlands

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (14.29%) InDesign
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (14.29%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Content Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
3 1 (14.29%) Copywriting
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Demand Management
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Ariba
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce