Project Management Contracts in Shropshire

Project Management
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +72
Contract jobs citing Project Management 15 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 7.46% 2.73% 9.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.98% 3.75% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile £308 £123 -
25th Percentile £475 £129 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £137 £475
Median % change year-on-year +273.72% -71.16% +18.75%
75th Percentile £514 £139 £488
90th Percentile £538 £140 £518
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £520 £519
% change year-on-year -8.65% +0.24% +8.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 80 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 93.53% 72.73% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 57 42
10th Percentile £325 £184 £450
25th Percentile £409 £338 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +43.16% -33.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £503 £548
90th Percentile £549 £519 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +123.61% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.18% -16.67% +54.29%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Shropshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Shropshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Shropshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Shropshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Shropshire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Telford -2 13 £512 +273.72% 8
Project Management
West Midlands

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 10 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Big Data
1 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Engagement Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Data Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Security Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Security Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Engagement Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.67%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) AIX
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Solaris
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Agile Project Management
2 8 (53.33%) Project Delivery
3 7 (46.67%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (13.33%) Active Listening
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Commercial Awareness
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Planning and Forecasting
5 2 (13.33%) Process Management
5 2 (13.33%) Project Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) Customer Insight
6 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
2 2 (13.33%) PMP
3 1 (6.67%) CAPM
3 1 (6.67%) CBAP
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Atlassian