Project Management Contracts in Merseyside

Project Management
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 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 15 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 14 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 8.33% 6.14% 9.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 7.82% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 24
10th Percentile £325 £396 £334
25th Percentile £372 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -18.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £657 £559 £547
90th Percentile £665 £643 £596
North West median daily rate £475 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £30.39 £16.69
25th Percentile - £32.85 £17.45
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.21 £19.44
Median % change year-on-year -41.54% +76.02% -15.56%
75th Percentile - £34.72 £21.95
90th Percentile - £35.64 £23.03
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.60% +2.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Merseyside

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +9 12 £633 +58.24% 22
Project Management
North West

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 2 (14.29%) Military
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Automotive
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Project Manager
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Manager
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Project Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Change Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
5 1 (7.14%) Database Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Migration Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Technical Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Programme Coordinator
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) Supplier Management
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Business Case
3 4 (28.57%) Line Management
3 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) Database Migration
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
6 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco