Project Manager Contracts in Merseyside

Project Manager
North West > Merseyside

The median Project Manager daily rate in Merseyside is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 18 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 8.00% 7.85% 8.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.41% 8.13% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 25
10th Percentile £240 £413 £265
25th Percentile £354 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £440
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -7.37%
75th Percentile £414 £578 £525
90th Percentile £455 £600 £565
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £30.39 - -
25th Percentile £32.85 - -
Median hourly rate £34.21 - -
75th Percentile £34.72 - -
90th Percentile £35.64 - -
North West median hourly rate £34.21 £30.76 £48.52
% change year-on-year +11.23% -36.61% +45.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Merseyside with a recognized job title 214 332 358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.11% 96.51% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 243 253
10th Percentile £149 £251 £173
25th Percentile £230 £397 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £538
90th Percentile £595 £685 £638
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 14 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £10.09 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £10.26 £13.38
Median hourly rate £18.31 £16.19 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +7.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £34.29 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £37.18 £23.75 £34.47
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.74 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.15% +53.70% +11.73%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Merseyside

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Merseyside

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Merseyside over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Merseyside

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Merseyside

Project Manager
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 Manager within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +1 16 £400 -23.44% 9
St Helens - 1 £208 -
Wirral - 1 £420 -
Project Manager
North West

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Merseyside region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 11 (61.11%) Project Management
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
3 5 (27.78%) ERP
3 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) GDPR
4 4 (22.22%) Local Government
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) HNC
5 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 3 (16.67%) NVQ Level 4
5 3 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
5 3 (16.67%) Police
6 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
7 1 (5.56%) Law
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (5.56%) SAP
7 1 (5.56%) Scrum
7 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.56%) Quality Management
7 1 (5.56%) Change Management
7 1 (5.56%) Identity Management
7 1 (5.56%) Risk Management

Project Manager Skill Set
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (22.22%) Local Government
4 3 (16.67%) Police
5 1 (5.56%) Electronics
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) ERP
3 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
6 1 (5.56%) Business Case
6 1 (5.56%) Change Control
6 1 (5.56%) Data Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) ePrescribing
6 1 (5.56%) Facilities Management
6 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.56%) Informatics
6 1 (5.56%) Product Backlog
6 1 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (5.56%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) HNC
1 3 (16.67%) NVQ Level 4
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
2 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) SAP