Project Management Contracts in the South East

Project Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 245 410 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.13% 7.39% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.88% 8.71% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 233 392
10th Percentile £325 £313 £316
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £578 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £740
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 45 20
10th Percentile £46.30 £18.32 £22.14
25th Percentile £52.13 £23.63 £22.16
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -21.42% +27.51%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £78.06 £67.10 £76.25
England median hourly rate £44.50 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year +16.74% -22.20% +48.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the South East

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the South East

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the South East

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the South East

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the South East

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Thames Valley +4 142 £475 -5.00% 211
Berkshire +5 123 £463 -11.90% 113
Hampshire +11 59 £500 +18.34% 123
Surrey -14 13 £425 -10.53% 66
West Sussex -5 11 £500 - 32
Buckinghamshire -9 10 £525 +22.09% 50
Oxfordshire -1 9 £538 +10.26% 84
Kent +8 7 £510 -7.27% 42
Sussex +2 3 £500 +21.95% 16
East Sussex -12 2 £500 +12.99% 14
Home Counties - 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 £750 - 10
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (3.27%) Confluence
2 7 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Camunda
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 16 (6.53%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.41%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.04%) Maximo
2 5 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle ASCP
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.82%) Primavera
4 2 (0.82%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.82%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.53%) Azure
2 12 (4.90%) AWS
3 10 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.63%) OCI
6 4 (1.63%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.22%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.22%) SaaS
8 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.82%) GCP
8 2 (0.82%) PaaS
8 2 (0.82%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.41%) Asana
9 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.16%) LTE
1 20 (8.16%) WAN
2 17 (6.94%) LAN
2 17 (6.94%) MPLS
2 17 (6.94%) VPN
3 16 (6.53%) ATM
3 16 (6.53%) Ethernet
3 16 (6.53%) Frame Relay
3 16 (6.53%) GPRS
3 16 (6.53%) GSM
3 16 (6.53%) SAN
3 16 (6.53%) SDH
3 16 (6.53%) UMTS
3 16 (6.53%) Wireshark
4 7 (2.86%) SD-WAN
4 7 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (2.45%) 3G
5 6 (2.45%) 4G
6 5 (2.04%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (1.63%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.45%) Power BI
2 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.82%) Tableau
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.41%) GIS
4 1 (0.41%) MS Access
4 1 (0.41%) OLAP
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.41%) QlikView
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.41%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 18 (7.35%) JIRA
2 3 (1.22%) Selenium
3 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.41%) JMeter
3 1 (0.41%) JUnit
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 121 (49.39%) Social Skills
2 68 (27.76%) Finance
3 43 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (17.14%) Telecoms
5 24 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.35%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.49%) Legal
8 10 (4.08%) Local Government
8 10 (4.08%) Marketing
8 10 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.08%) Retail
9 7 (2.86%) Aviation
9 7 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.04%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.04%) Law
11 4 (1.63%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.82%) Banking
12 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (33.06%) Project Manager
2 20 (8.16%) Lead
3 16 (6.53%) Senior
4 15 (6.12%) Analyst
4 15 (6.12%) IP Engineer
4 15 (6.12%) IT Manager
5 14 (5.71%) Architect
5 14 (5.71%) Test Engineer
6 12 (4.90%) Consultant
6 12 (4.90%) Implementation Manager
6 12 (4.90%) IT Project Manager
7 11 (4.49%) Senior Manager
8 9 (3.67%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (3.27%) ERP Manager
9 8 (3.27%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (3.27%) Technical Manager
10 7 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (2.86%) ERP Implementation Manager
10 7 (2.86%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 7 (2.86%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.22%) ADO
3 2 (0.82%) CSS
3 2 (0.82%) HTML
3 2 (0.82%) Node.js
3 2 (0.82%) Parceljs
3 2 (0.82%) RESTful
3 2 (0.82%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.41%) .NET
4 1 (0.41%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.41%) J2EE
4 1 (0.41%) SAML
4 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.98%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.90%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.49%) IoT
5 10 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.86%) PMI
7 6 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.45%) Device Driver
7 6 (2.45%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.04%) Life Science
9 4 (1.63%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.63%) Social Media
10 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.22%) CCTV
10 3 (1.22%) Infotainment
10 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.39%) Linux
2 16 (6.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.22%) Windows
4 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (33.47%) Agile
2 68 (27.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (22.04%) PRINCE2
5 42 (17.14%) Risk Management
6 40 (16.33%) Project Delivery
7 28 (11.43%) Change Management
8 24 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (9.39%) Migration
9 23 (9.39%) Project Planning
10 22 (8.98%) ERP
11 21 (8.57%) Test Strategy
11 21 (8.57%) Waterfall
12 20 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (7.35%) Decision-Making
14 16 (6.53%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (6.53%) Fault Management
14 16 (6.53%) Process Improvement
14 16 (6.53%) Regression Testing
14 16 (6.53%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.76%) Java
2 6 (2.45%) Embedded C
3 5 (2.04%) C
4 4 (1.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.63%) SQL
5 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.41%) C#
6 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (19.18%) Degree
2 37 (15.10%) PMP
3 33 (13.47%) Security Cleared
4 31 (12.65%) PMI Certification
5 19 (7.76%) ISEB
6 17 (6.94%) ISTQB
7 16 (6.53%) CCNP
7 16 (6.53%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (6.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 15 (6.12%) DV Cleared
8 15 (6.12%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.86%) APMP
9 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.63%) CISA
11 4 (1.63%) CISM
11 4 (1.63%) CISSP
12 3 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.35%) PMO
2 13 (5.31%) QA
3 9 (3.67%) GDPR
4 6 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.04%) GRC
6 4 (1.63%) NIST
6 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.22%) SLA
8 2 (0.82%) P3O
9 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.41%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.45%) Firmware
1 6 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.22%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 39 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.94%) Cisco
3 16 (6.53%) Juniper
3 16 (6.53%) SAP
4 14 (5.71%) Oracle
5 10 (4.08%) VMware
6 5 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.63%) Adobe
7 4 (1.63%) Google
8 3 (1.22%) Cramer
8 3 (1.22%) NEC
9 2 (0.82%) Ariba
9 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.82%) Fujitsu
9 2 (0.82%) IBM
9 2 (0.82%) Infoblox
9 2 (0.82%) Palantir
9 2 (0.82%) Remedy
9 2 (0.82%) Workday