Project Management Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Project Management
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 10 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 15.63% 13.89% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.24% 18.52% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile - £255 £495
25th Percentile £222 £356 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% -20.83% +29.73%
75th Percentile £455 £566 £638
90th Percentile £520 £616 £660
Oxfordshire median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 27 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 90.63% 75.00% 80.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 61
10th Percentile £222 £193 £169
25th Percentile £291 £253 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £660 £650
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £493 £450
% change year-on-year -8.63% +9.44% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £15.62 - -
25th Percentile £20.39 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +73.08% -12.49%
75th Percentile £86.32 £47.50 -
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £22.00 £25.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year -15.35% -0.04% +8.33%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in Oxford

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Project Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Project Management

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Oxford over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Oxford

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Project Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Project Management

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (40.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Local Government
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Accountant
1 4 (40.00%) Financial Accountant
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Accountant
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Systems Accountant
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Accountant
2 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Business Process Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (10.00%) Process Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (40.00%) Data Management
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (40.00%) Systems Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
6 1 (10.00%) Resilience Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
6 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCAB
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) VMware