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 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 147 269 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.20% 5.53% 7.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.51% 5.96% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 191 294
10th Percentile £376 £356 £369
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.87% +8.37%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £575
90th Percentile £618 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 6
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.59 £29.58
25th Percentile £29.50 £33.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.20% +21.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £40.00 £36.35
90th Percentile £77.75 £61.02 £38.75
England median hourly rate £50.75 £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +45.00% -44.00% +25.00%

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 3,262 4,512 5,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 92.80% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,156 2,739 3,620
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 450 169
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% -8.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.88 £43.48
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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
Yorkshire 0 69 £500 - 61
North West -30 68 £518 +3.50% 69
North East -3 10 £456 -20.65% 15
Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 79 (53.74%) Project Management
2 60 (40.82%) Finance
2 60 (40.82%) Social Skills
3 49 (33.33%) Agile
4 44 (29.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (21.09%) Project Delivery
6 24 (16.33%) PRINCE2
6 24 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (16.33%) Waterfall
7 21 (14.29%) Change Management
8 20 (13.61%) Microsoft
8 20 (13.61%) Banking
9 18 (12.24%) Project Planning
10 17 (11.56%) Project Governance
11 16 (10.88%) Migration
12 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Project
12 15 (10.20%) JIRA
13 14 (9.52%) Confluence
13 14 (9.52%) PMP
13 14 (9.52%) PMI Certification
13 14 (9.52%) Risk Management
14 13 (8.84%) Legal
14 13 (8.84%) Retail
14 13 (8.84%) ERP
14 13 (8.84%) Budget Management
14 13 (8.84%) Decision-Making
15 12 (8.16%) Scrum
16 11 (7.48%) Degree
16 11 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (7.48%) Influencing Skills

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 14 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.36%) Trello
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.68%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.68%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) Actimize
2 1 (0.68%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.68%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (2.72%) Azure
4 3 (2.04%) AWS
4 3 (2.04%) SaaS
4 3 (2.04%) Smartsheet
5 2 (1.36%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.68%) Asana
6 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.68%) GCP
6 1 (0.68%) GitHub
6 1 (0.68%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.68%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) LAN
2 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.08%) GIS
2 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (10.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (40.82%) Finance
1 60 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.61%) Banking
3 13 (8.84%) Legal
3 13 (8.84%) Retail
4 11 (7.48%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.72%) Local Government
10 2 (1.36%) Automotive
10 2 (1.36%) Billing
10 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.68%) ADO
1 1 (0.68%) CSS
1 1 (0.68%) FHIR
1 1 (0.68%) HTML
1 1 (0.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.44%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.72%) PMI
4 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.36%) CMDB
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.36%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.36%) NHS
5 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) EPoS
6 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.68%) Robotics
6 1 (0.68%) SCADA
6 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.04%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.74%) Project Management
2 49 (33.33%) Agile
3 44 (29.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (21.09%) Project Delivery
5 24 (16.33%) PRINCE2
5 24 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (16.33%) Waterfall
6 21 (14.29%) Change Management
7 18 (12.24%) Project Planning
8 17 (11.56%) Project Governance
9 16 (10.88%) Migration
10 14 (9.52%) Risk Management
11 13 (8.84%) Budget Management
11 13 (8.84%) Decision-Making
11 13 (8.84%) ERP
12 12 (8.16%) Scrum
13 11 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (6.12%) Process Improvement
14 9 (6.12%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (9.52%) PMI Certification
1 14 (9.52%) PMP
2 11 (7.48%) Degree
3 8 (5.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.44%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (2.72%) RIBA
6 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.68%) APMG
8 1 (0.68%) CIMA
8 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.40%) PMO
2 4 (2.72%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.36%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) DICOM
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) HL7
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) XenApp
2 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.04%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.68%) SCCM
2 1 (0.68%) SCOM
2 1 (0.68%) SCSM
Vendors
1 20 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.12%) SAP
3 4 (2.72%) Citrix
3 4 (2.72%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.04%) Adobe
4 3 (2.04%) Cisco
4 3 (2.04%) Google
4 3 (2.04%) Oracle
5 2 (1.36%) Dell
5 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.36%) Workday
6 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.68%) Ariba
6 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.68%) HP
6 1 (0.68%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Remedy
6 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.68%) webMethods
6 1 (0.68%) Zscaler