Project Management Contracts in Portsmouth

Project Management
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 19 34 27
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 9 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 7.32% 4.01% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 4.51% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £311 £366 £395
25th Percentile £355 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £515
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -24.76% +7.29%
75th Percentile £469 £397 £585
90th Percentile £532 £399 £626
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £423 £525
% change year-on-year +18.34% -19.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £23.54
Median % change year-on-year - +154.94% -40.42%
75th Percentile - £81.26 £25.13
90th Percentile - £102.52 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +82.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 266 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 81.30% 88.96% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 112 138
10th Percentile £363 £400 £201
25th Percentile £434 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £575
90th Percentile £660 £848 £672
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -6.02% +11.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 101 22
10th Percentile £42.25 £51.06 £45.06
25th Percentile £51.25 £53.40 £51.44
Median hourly rate £57.75 £59.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +3.37% +27.78%
75th Percentile £63.13 £65.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.26% +8.21% +113.80%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Portsmouth

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) Project Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Support Officer
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Agile Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Lean Software Development
2 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 3 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 3 (33.33%) User Research
2 3 (33.33%) User Stories
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
2 3 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) PMP
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) PMBOK
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Palantir