Project Planning Contracts in the Midlands

Project Planning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 71 106 137
Rank change year-on-year +35 +31 +32
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 40 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.09% 0.98% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.19% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 23
10th Percentile £384 £213 £400
25th Percentile £447 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £541 £563 £500
90th Percentile £577 £600 £563
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile - £22.41 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £26.92 £20.49
Median hourly rate £28.18 £35.00 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +66.91% -
75th Percentile - £53.95 £21.46
90th Percentile £47.27 £72.90 -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £56.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% +14.80% +10.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +23 30 £500 +5.26% 22
East Midlands +16 10 £425 -30.04% 18
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.00%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon Glacier
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
1 3 (7.50%) AWS
1 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (7.50%) Serverless
2 2 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.50%) IaaS
3 1 (2.50%) PaaS
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) Plastic SCM
3 1 (2.50%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.50%) NetBeans
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Automotive
3 3 (7.50%) Games
3 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.50%) Billing
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Military
5 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 8 (20.00%) Engagement Manager
3 7 (17.50%) Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Applications Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Games Developer
5 3 (7.50%) PMO Planner
5 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Java Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Programme Planner
6 2 (5.00%) Rig Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Project Manager
7 1 (2.50%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (7.50%) Kafka
1 3 (7.50%) RESTful
1 3 (7.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.50%) POSIX
2 1 (2.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (10.00%) IoT
2 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Infotainment
3 2 (5.00%) PMI
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) Project Delivery
2 15 (37.50%) Project Management
2 15 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) Microservices
3 7 (17.50%) Waterfall
4 6 (15.00%) Budget Management
4 6 (15.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Resource Management
5 5 (12.50%) Supplier Management
5 5 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 4 (10.00%) SOA
6 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) C#
1 3 (7.50%) Java
2 2 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) C
3 1 (2.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) PMO
2 4 (10.00%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.00%) COSHH
3 2 (5.00%) ISO 14001
4 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) MISRA
4 1 (2.50%) MISRA C
4 1 (2.50%) PMBOK
4 1 (2.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) Progress
5 1 (2.50%) QNX