Project Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Project Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 166 138 205
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.81% 6.92% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 7.72% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 87 123
10th Percentile £331 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £402 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £570 £575
90th Percentile £628 £673 £638
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 28
10th Percentile £21.00 £33.23 £23.02
25th Percentile £22.88 £56.62 £28.23
Median hourly rate £33.75 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +71.43% -
75th Percentile £64.06 £76.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.45 £78.63 £48.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £46.30 £38.12
% change year-on-year -19.01% +21.46% -16.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Project Management 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,877 1,787 2,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.39% 89.62% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 1,182 1,434
10th Percentile £300 £306 £311
25th Percentile £400 £385 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £557 £588
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 98 275
10th Percentile £17.13 £13.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.85 £14.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.52% +13.86% -8.32%
75th Percentile £75.75 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.74 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Project Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Project Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Project Management

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the North West

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Project Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Project Management

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the North West

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Manchester -22 73 £458 +1.67% 63
Cheshire 0 39 £463 +8.31% 13
Lancashire +9 33 £606 +6.36% 21
Cumbria -4 13 £488 +3.72% 2
Merseyside -18 7 £450 +14.29% 15
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (9.64%) Confluence
2 9 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (5.42%) MS Visio
3 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 26 (15.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.81%) Primavera
2 3 (1.81%) SAP HCM
2 3 (1.81%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.02%) Azure
2 7 (4.22%) Google Workspace
3 5 (3.01%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.41%) GCP
4 4 (2.41%) Google Sheets
4 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.41%) SaaS
5 3 (1.81%) Asana
5 3 (1.81%) Google Drive
5 3 (1.81%) Smartsheet
6 2 (1.20%) AWS
6 2 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.60%) IBM Blueworks
7 1 (0.60%) PaaS
7 1 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) BGP
1 3 (1.81%) DKIM
1 3 (1.81%) DMARC
1 3 (1.81%) DNS
1 3 (1.81%) Network Security
1 3 (1.81%) SSH
1 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.01%) Power BI
2 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.81%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.60%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.60%) GIS
5 1 (0.60%) Metadata
5 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (13.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (53.01%) Finance
2 80 (48.19%) Social Skills
3 37 (22.29%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.24%) Banking
5 15 (9.04%) Retail
6 10 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (6.02%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.42%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.42%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (39.16%) Project Manager
2 18 (10.84%) Consultant
3 16 (9.64%) Finance Manager
3 16 (9.64%) Finance Project Manager
3 16 (9.64%) SAP Consultant
4 15 (9.04%) Analyst
5 13 (7.83%) Transformation Consultant
6 12 (7.23%) Lead
6 12 (7.23%) Senior
6 12 (7.23%) Senior Manager
6 12 (7.23%) Senior Project Manager
7 10 (6.02%) Accountant
7 10 (6.02%) Engagement Manager
7 10 (6.02%) Systems Accountant
8 7 (4.22%) IT Manager
8 7 (4.22%) IT Project Manager
9 6 (3.61%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) Migration Manager
10 5 (3.01%) Migration Project Manager
11 4 (2.41%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.41%) OAuth
2 1 (0.60%) Middleware
2 1 (0.60%) REST
2 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.60%) SAML
2 1 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.61%) EPoS
3 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.41%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.41%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.41%) PKI
5 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.81%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.81%) Tandem
6 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.20%) PMI
6 2 (1.20%) SCADA
7 1 (0.60%) CMDB
7 1 (0.60%) Life Science
7 1 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.01%) Windows
2 4 (2.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (33.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 48 (28.92%) Migration
3 46 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (25.30%) Change Management
5 39 (23.49%) Agile
6 35 (21.08%) ERP
7 29 (17.47%) Data Migration
7 29 (17.47%) Project Delivery
7 29 (17.47%) Validation
8 28 (16.87%) Business Transformation
8 28 (16.87%) Workshop Facilitation
9 27 (16.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (12.65%) Visualisation
12 16 (9.64%) Risk Management
12 16 (9.64%) Waterfall
13 15 (9.04%) ITIL
14 14 (8.43%) SAP Implementation
14 14 (8.43%) Use Case
15 13 (7.83%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.61%) SQL
2 4 (2.41%) Python
3 1 (0.60%) ABAP
3 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.84%) Degree
3 14 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.02%) ACCA
4 10 (6.02%) CIMA
4 10 (6.02%) CIPFA
5 9 (5.42%) PMP
6 7 (4.22%) PMI Certification
7 6 (3.61%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.01%) MBA
9 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.20%) CISA
10 2 (1.20%) CISM
10 2 (1.20%) CISSP
10 2 (1.20%) CRISC
10 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) PMO
2 5 (3.01%) SLA
3 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.81%) GRC
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (1.20%) NEBOSH
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) QA
5 1 (0.60%) Basel III
System Software
1 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.81%) Ansible
1 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (22.89%) SAP
2 16 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.83%) Sage
4 7 (4.22%) Google
5 4 (2.41%) Concur
5 4 (2.41%) DocuSign
6 3 (1.81%) Arista
6 3 (1.81%) Cisco
6 3 (1.81%) Databricks
6 3 (1.81%) Gemalto
6 3 (1.81%) IBM
6 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.81%) Thales
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle
8 1 (0.60%) Commvault
8 1 (0.60%) Epicor
8 1 (0.60%) Infor
8 1 (0.60%) Qualys
8 1 (0.60%) Teradata
8 1 (0.60%) Veeam