Project Manager Contracts in the North of England

Project Manager
England > North of England

The median Project Manager daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 32 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 176 250 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.34% 5.24% 7.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.72% 5.63% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 188 307
10th Percentile £305 £350 £369
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £569 £580 £573
90th Percentile £625 £625 £619
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 7
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.81 £28.37
25th Percentile £29.80 £28.75 £29.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.21 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.02% +19.65%
75th Percentile £58.27 £36.25 £35.20
90th Percentile £75.00 £50.58 £45.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £35.96 £64.25
% change year-on-year +30.70% -44.03% +32.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the North of England

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in the North of England

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in the North of England

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in the North of England

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Manager in the North of England

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West 0 102 £500 - 93
Yorkshire -6 59 £500 +5.26% 48
North East +4 14 £469 -10.71% 18
Project Manager
England

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 104 (59.09%) Project Management
2 65 (36.93%) Finance
3 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
4 45 (25.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (23.86%) Agile
6 30 (17.05%) Change Management
7 29 (16.48%) PRINCE2
8 27 (15.34%) Project Delivery
9 21 (11.93%) Project Planning
10 20 (11.36%) Degree
10 20 (11.36%) Waterfall
10 20 (11.36%) Risk Management
11 19 (10.80%) Microsoft
11 19 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.66%) Migration
12 17 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
13 16 (9.09%) Public Sector
14 15 (8.52%) Budget Management
14 15 (8.52%) SAP
14 15 (8.52%) Banking
14 15 (8.52%) JIRA
15 13 (7.39%) PMI Certification
16 12 (6.82%) PMP
16 12 (6.82%) Retail
16 12 (6.82%) Local Government
16 12 (6.82%) Scrum
16 12 (6.82%) Decision-Making
17 11 (6.25%) Roadmaps
17 11 (6.25%) Resource Allocation

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.14%) Trello
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.57%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 6 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.14%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.57%) Actimize
4 1 (0.57%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.57%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (2.27%) Azure
4 2 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.57%) Asana
5 1 (0.57%) AWS
5 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.57%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.57%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.57%) OCI
5 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Firewall
1 2 (1.14%) LAN
1 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.70%) GIS
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (8.52%) JIRA
General
1 65 (36.93%) Finance
2 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.52%) Banking
5 12 (6.82%) Local Government
5 12 (6.82%) Retail
6 10 (5.68%) Legal
7 8 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.70%) Military
12 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.14%) Automotive
12 2 (1.14%) Billing
12 2 (1.14%) Electronics
12 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.57%) ADO
1 1 (0.57%) CSS
1 1 (0.57%) FHIR
1 1 (0.57%) HTML
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.68%) NHS
2 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.27%) PMI
4 3 (1.70%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.57%) CMDB
6 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.57%) EPoS
6 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.57%) PACS
6 1 (0.57%) SCADA
6 1 (0.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (59.09%) Project Management
2 45 (25.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (23.86%) Agile
4 30 (17.05%) Change Management
5 29 (16.48%) PRINCE2
6 27 (15.34%) Project Delivery
7 21 (11.93%) Project Planning
8 20 (11.36%) Risk Management
8 20 (11.36%) Waterfall
9 19 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (9.66%) Migration
10 17 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (8.52%) Budget Management
12 12 (6.82%) Decision-Making
12 12 (6.82%) Scrum
13 11 (6.25%) ERP
13 11 (6.25%) Resource Allocation
13 11 (6.25%) Roadmaps
14 10 (5.68%) Project Governance
15 9 (5.11%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (11.36%) Degree
2 13 (7.39%) PMI Certification
3 12 (6.82%) PMP
4 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.84%) HNC
5 5 (2.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 5 (2.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.57%) APMG
8 1 (0.57%) APMP
8 1 (0.57%) CIMA
8 1 (0.57%) MRICS
8 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.41%) PMO
2 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.14%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.57%) DICOM
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) GRC
3 1 (0.57%) HL7
3 1 (0.57%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.14%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.57%) SCCM
2 1 (0.57%) SCSM
Vendors
1 19 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.52%) SAP
3 9 (5.11%) Oracle
4 4 (2.27%) Workday
5 3 (1.70%) Adobe
5 3 (1.70%) Citrix
5 3 (1.70%) Google
5 3 (1.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco
6 2 (1.14%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.14%) VMware
7 1 (0.57%) Dell
7 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.57%) Remedy
7 1 (0.57%) Siemens
7 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.57%) Splunk
7 1 (0.57%) Veeam
7 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media