Project Management Contracts in Luton

Project Management
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Luton 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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 5 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 4.90% 14.93% 16.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 15.75% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 12
10th Percentile - £261 £281
25th Percentile - £300 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £463
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -24.32% -7.50%
75th Percentile £525 £713 £588
90th Percentile £570 £750 £625
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% +20.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 127 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 98.04% 94.78% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 72 70
10th Percentile - £303 £281
25th Percentile £500 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £744 £667 £625
Bedfordshire median daily rate £590 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +12.38% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 3
10th Percentile £60.53 - £26.00
25th Percentile £65.63 £15.39 £42.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £21.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +272.09% -71.33% +140.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.30 £88.00
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £72.50 £21.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +237.21% -55.67% -7.62%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Luton

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Luton

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Luton

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Training Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) e-Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Self-Awareness
4 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) F5
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk