Project Management Contracts in Northampton

Project Management
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 14 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 11 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 8.94% 11.81% 10.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 12.50% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 12
10th Percentile £297 £355 £370
25th Percentile £322 £423 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £448 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -5.79% +2.43%
75th Percentile £414 £552 £556
90th Percentile £469 £618 £643
Northamptonshire median daily rate £391 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -13.11% -5.26% +2.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 120 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.50% 94.49% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 89
10th Percentile £262 £325 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +22.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £500
90th Percentile £529 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Northampton

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Northampton

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Northampton

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Northampton.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Northampton

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) UI Designer
2 2 (18.18%) UI/UX Designer
2 2 (18.18%) UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Junior Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior UI/UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
1 1 (9.09%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Change Control
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
4 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Project Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
4 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Typography
4 2 (18.18%) Usability Testing
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) UX Design
4 2 (18.18%) Web Accessibility
4 2 (18.18%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
1 3 (27.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) PMO
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) QA
3 1 (9.09%) Basel III
3 1 (9.09%) MiFID
3 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco