Project Management Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Project Management
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Project Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 29 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Management 7 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 3.76% 3.59% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 4.12% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £297 £486 -
25th Percentile £339 £494 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £540 £492
Median % change year-on-year -29.40% +9.76% -12.53%
75th Percentile £438 £592 £500
90th Percentile £486 £604 £590
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £24.40
25th Percentile - - £43.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £60.00
75th Percentile - - £64.31
90th Percentile - - £68.64
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 £65.56
% change year-on-year +26.32% -27.54% +101.58%

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 142 170 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 76.34% 87.18% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 84 144
10th Percentile £266 £360 £273
25th Percentile £422 £448 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £591
90th Percentile £586 £835 £668
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 66 34
10th Percentile £25.14 £51.06 £19.83
25th Percentile £27.10 £53.40 £34.40
Median hourly rate £48.75 £57.35 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +1.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £58.88 £76.86 £69.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Portsmouth

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Project Management
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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (42.86%) Business Process Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Lean Software Development
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (42.86%) Sprint Review
3 3 (42.86%) User Research
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Wireframes
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) PMBOK
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Palantir
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft