Project Management Contracts in the North West

Project Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management 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 22 22 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 151 191 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 7.67% 6.93% 8.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 8.04% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 120 190
10th Percentile £248 £313 £319
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £570 £593 £550
90th Percentile £672 £651 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.61% +5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 28
10th Percentile £23.74 £24.09 £25.56
25th Percentile £31.25 £30.63 £28.46
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +2.71% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £57.80 £65.30
England median hourly rate £46.18 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year +21.14% -22.20% +48.48%

All Process and 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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the North West

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the North West

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the North West

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the North West

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Manchester +2 71 £463 -9.71% 217
Cheshire -11 34 £367 -26.60% 57
Cumbria +8 15 £465 +70.33% 14
Merseyside +4 14 £438 +6.71% 27
Lancashire -5 13 £570 +6.05% 131
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (5.96%) Confluence
2 3 (1.99%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.31%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.66%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (7.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.97%) Primavera
2 6 (3.97%) SAP PS
3 3 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.99%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.66%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.61%) Azure
2 5 (3.31%) AWS
3 4 (2.65%) GCP
3 4 (2.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
5 2 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.32%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.32%) Google Analytics
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.32%) Serverless
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.66%) GitHub
6 1 (0.66%) OCI
6 1 (0.66%) SaaS
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) DHCP
1 5 (3.31%) DNS
1 5 (3.31%) VPN
2 4 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) Network Security
4 1 (0.66%) ATM
4 1 (0.66%) FlexRay
4 1 (0.66%) Internet
4 1 (0.66%) Intranet
4 1 (0.66%) IPsec
4 1 (0.66%) LAN
4 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.66%) Skype
4 1 (0.66%) WAN
4 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) Power BI
1 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.99%) Tableau
3 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.32%) MySQL
3 2 (1.32%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.66%) GIS
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (14.57%) JIRA
2 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.66%) Git
3 1 (0.66%) JIRA Agile
General
1 78 (51.66%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.18%) Finance
3 24 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.26%) Legal
5 15 (9.93%) Automotive
5 15 (9.93%) Manufacturing
6 12 (7.95%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (7.95%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.62%) Retail
8 7 (4.64%) Banking
8 7 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.64%) Local Government
9 6 (3.97%) Marketing
10 4 (2.65%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.65%) French Language
10 4 (2.65%) Military
10 4 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.32%) Electronics
12 2 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (37.75%) Project Manager
2 15 (9.93%) Lead
3 10 (6.62%) IT Manager
4 8 (5.30%) Analyst
4 8 (5.30%) IT Project Manager
5 7 (4.64%) Technical Manager
5 7 (4.64%) Technical Project Manager
6 6 (3.97%) Consultant
6 6 (3.97%) Engagement Manager
6 6 (3.97%) Project Planner
6 6 (3.97%) Senior
7 5 (3.31%) Change Manager
7 5 (3.31%) Facilities Manager
7 5 (3.31%) Facilities Project Manager
7 5 (3.31%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (3.31%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 4 (2.65%) IT Engineer
8 4 (2.65%) IT Support
8 4 (2.65%) Network Engineer
8 4 (2.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.32%) CSS
1 2 (1.32%) FastAPI
1 2 (1.32%) HTML
1 2 (1.32%) SAP Core Interface
2 1 (0.66%) ADO
2 1 (0.66%) Shiny
2 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.96%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.64%) NHS
4 6 (3.97%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (3.97%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 5 (3.31%) Augmented Reality
5 5 (3.31%) e-Learning
5 5 (3.31%) Podcast
5 5 (3.31%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) SCADA
9 1 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) CentOS
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.48%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (25.17%) Agile
3 32 (21.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (17.88%) PRINCE2
5 26 (17.22%) Project Delivery
6 24 (15.89%) Change Management
7 17 (11.26%) Project Planning
7 17 (11.26%) Roadmaps
8 16 (10.60%) Migration
9 15 (9.93%) Decision-Making
10 14 (9.27%) ITIL
11 13 (8.61%) Agile Project Management
11 13 (8.61%) Analytics
12 12 (7.95%) Business Case
12 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (7.95%) Service Delivery
12 12 (7.95%) Service Management
12 12 (7.95%) Supplier Management
13 11 (7.28%) Risk Management
13 11 (7.28%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.97%) SQL
2 3 (1.99%) Python
3 1 (0.66%) C++
3 1 (0.66%) Java
3 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.66%) R
3 1 (0.66%) Ruby
3 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (19.87%) Degree
2 19 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.92%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.95%) PMI Certification
4 12 (7.95%) PMP
5 7 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.31%) HNC
8 4 (2.65%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (2.65%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.66%) APMP
10 1 (0.66%) CCNA
10 1 (0.66%) CCNP
10 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.65%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.65%) PMO
1 4 (2.65%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.66%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) GxP
3 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) MOM
2 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Ansible
3 1 (0.66%) Nagios
3 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.66%) SCSM
3 1 (0.66%) Terraform
3 1 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (20.53%) SAP
2 22 (14.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.64%) Google
3 7 (4.64%) Oracle
3 7 (4.64%) Siemens
4 6 (3.97%) Rockwell
5 5 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.65%) Adobe
7 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.99%) VMware
8 2 (1.32%) Brio
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco
8 2 (1.32%) Databricks
8 2 (1.32%) Dell
8 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.66%) Facebook
9 1 (0.66%) Meraki
9 1 (0.66%) Twitter
9 1 (0.66%) Workday
9 1 (0.66%) YouTube