Project Planning Contracts in the North of England

Project Planning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 116 141 184
Rank change year-on-year +25 +43 -31
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 50 44 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.52% 0.92% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.08% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 22
10th Percentile £391 £313 £301
25th Percentile £449 £428 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £570 £514 £500
90th Percentile £594 £600 £584
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £20.45 £21.21 £55.12
25th Percentile £26.36 £22.65 £59.26
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.23 £68.19
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -46.88% +71.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £51.75 £75.10
90th Percentile - £56.70 £78.04
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the North of England

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the North of England

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the North of England

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the North of England

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the North of England

Project Planning
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 Planning 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 +25 28 £500 +1.27% 24
Yorkshire +7 18 £506 +1.25% 15
North East -1 4 £538 +65.38% 12
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
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 1 (2.00%) Appian
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (8.00%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Primavera
1 4 (8.00%) SAP PS
2 3 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (4.00%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (8.00%) Serverless
3 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.00%) Azure
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Maven
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (52.00%) Finance
2 23 (46.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Legal
5 5 (10.00%) Banking
5 5 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.00%) Retail
8 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Local Government
8 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.00%) Automotive
9 1 (2.00%) Aviation
9 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.00%) Law
9 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.00%) Marketing
9 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Project Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Architect
3 6 (12.00%) Project Planner
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 5 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 3 (6.00%) Security Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Security Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Associate Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Business Change Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (8.00%) Kafka
1 4 (8.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) PMI
2 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.00%) IoT
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) EPoS
5 1 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.00%) SCADA
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) HPUX
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Project Management
2 16 (32.00%) Agile
3 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (22.00%) Migration
6 10 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 9 (18.00%) Project Delivery
8 8 (16.00%) Budget Management
8 8 (16.00%) Contingency Planning
8 8 (16.00%) Risk Management
8 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
9 7 (14.00%) DevOps
9 7 (14.00%) Microservices
9 7 (14.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
10 6 (12.00%) Change Management
10 6 (12.00%) Coaching
10 6 (12.00%) Critical Path Analysis
10 6 (12.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) Java
1 4 (8.00%) SQL
2 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.00%) Bash
3 2 (4.00%) COBOL
3 2 (4.00%) Perl
3 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) PMI Certification
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) PMP
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CBAP
6 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) PMO
1 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (2.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) SAP
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco
3 2 (4.00%) Perforce
4 1 (2.00%) Dell
4 1 (2.00%) HP
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Remedy
4 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.00%) Sun
4 1 (2.00%) Unisys
4 1 (2.00%) Veeam
4 1 (2.00%) Veritas
4 1 (2.00%) VMware