Project Planning Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Project Planning
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Project Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.92% 0.88% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £507 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -14.33% +33.33% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Project Planning 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 319 100 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 87.64% 87.72% 73.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 68 22
10th Percentile £400 £221 £264
25th Percentile £444 £360 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +19.25% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £450
90th Percentile £552 £567 £532
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% - -
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile £32.58 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +29.94%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Project Planning job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Project Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Project Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Project Planning

Project Planning
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 Planning within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 22 December 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 -29 7 £496 - 1
Project Planning
West Midlands

Project Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Engagement Manager
2 6 (85.71%) SAP Engagement Manager
2 6 (85.71%) SAP Manager
3 5 (71.43%) Senior
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 7 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 7 (100.00%) Change Management
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Data Management
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 7 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 6 (85.71%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) SAP
1 7 (100.00%) ServiceNow