Project Management Contracts in Northamptonshire

Project Management
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 14 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 9.46% 8.91% 10.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.29% 9.94% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 20
10th Percentile £314 £355 £369
25th Percentile £322 £445 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% -3.95% +2.15%
75th Percentile £426 £575 £545
90th Percentile £485 £613 £594
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -13.79% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.58
25th Percentile - - £23.44
Median hourly rate - - £25.66
75th Percentile - - £29.22
90th Percentile - - £30.89
East Midlands median hourly rate £31.76 £18.00 £25.66
% change year-on-year +76.44% -29.85% -6.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 181 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.89% 89.60% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 133 165
10th Percentile £269 £306 £195
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £443 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +18.13% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £571
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £417 £450
% change year-on-year +7.32% -7.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.36% -66.27% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £50.71 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.90 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.37
% change year-on-year +7.97% -7.43% +2.03%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Northamptonshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Northamptonshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Northamptonshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Northamptonshire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northampton -6 11 £397 -11.89% 31
Project Management
East Midlands

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe XD
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (7.14%) Asana
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Designer
2 2 (14.29%) UI Designer
2 2 (14.29%) UI/UX Designer
2 2 (14.29%) UX Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Cutover Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) ERP Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Junior
3 1 (7.14%) Junior Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Junior UI/UX Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Junior UX Designer
3 1 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Content Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
5 2 (14.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 2 (14.29%) Interaction Design
5 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 2 (14.29%) Typography
5 2 (14.29%) User Experience
5 2 (14.29%) User Research
5 2 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (14.29%) Web Development
5 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) PMI Certification
1 3 (21.43%) PMP
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) PMO
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) Basel III
3 1 (7.14%) MiFID
3 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) VMware