Project Planning Contracts in Manchester

Project Planning
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 84 101
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 12 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 0.79% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.91% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £449 £476 £300
25th Percentile £468 £495 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +23.61% -5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £497
90th Percentile £603 - £554
North West median daily rate £500 £494 £488
% change year-on-year +1.27% +1.28% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £29.13 £28.56 -
25th Percentile £48.98 £36.23 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £49.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -38.75% -
75th Percentile - £54.50 -
90th Percentile - £57.80 -
North West median hourly rate £37.00 £49.00 £68.19
% change year-on-year -24.49% -28.14% +71.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Project Planning 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in Manchester

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in Manchester

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in Manchester

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in Manchester

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in Manchester

Project Planning
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton -6 4 - - 2
Project Planning
North West

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Primavera
1 4 (33.33%) SAP PS
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
1 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Aviation
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Project Planner
2 2 (16.67%) Project Controller
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Project Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Project Support Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Project Management
2 6 (50.00%) Coaching
3 4 (33.33%) Business Performance Management
3 4 (33.33%) Critical Path Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Earned Value Management
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Measurement
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Budget Management
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) SCSM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (8.33%) VMware