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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 16 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 8.29% 9.73% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 10.53% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 11
10th Percentile £313 £355 £370
25th Percentile £339 £445 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.63% +2.43%
75th Percentile £397 £591 £488
90th Percentile £464 £612 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £375 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -21.05% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 - £24.83
% change year-on-year - - -9.71%

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 182 171 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.30% 92.43% 84.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 138 85
10th Percentile £256 £355 £189
25th Percentile £322 £373 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile £449 £575 £500
90th Percentile £515 £620 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £390 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.36% +11.25% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +68.93%

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 31 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Figma
4 1 (6.25%) Asana
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) IT Support
1 4 (25.00%) Support Officer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) UI Designer
3 2 (12.50%) UI/UX Designer
3 2 (12.50%) UX Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Junior UI/UX Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Junior UX Designer
4 1 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) LDAP
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Coaching
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Biometrics
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Identity
5 3 (18.75%) Facial Recognition
5 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
5 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
6 2 (12.50%) Interaction Design
6 2 (12.50%) User Research
6 2 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) PMO
3 1 (6.25%) Basel III
3 1 (6.25%) MiFID
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco