Project Planning Contracts in the South East

Project Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 147 131
Rank change year-on-year +23 -16 +29
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 35 58 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.16% 1.04% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.23% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 61
10th Percentile £259 £107 £363
25th Percentile £364 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £638
90th Percentile £555 £716 £773
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile - - £24.75
25th Percentile - - £28.53
Median hourly rate £46.30 £60.00 £48.14
Median % change year-on-year -22.83% +24.65% -5.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £68.00
90th Percentile £69.00 - £68.90
England median hourly rate £46.30 £56.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% +14.80% +10.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £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 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
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 Planning within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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 +27 21 £463 +8.19% 30
Berkshire +8 11 £463 +32.14% 10
Hampshire +24 9 £372 -3.66% 16
Oxfordshire - 9 - - 7
Surrey +11 3 £325 -35.00% 7
Buckinghamshire +14 1 £543 -9.58% 14
West Sussex +12 1 £220 - 8
East Sussex - 1 £500 - 3
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (17.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Google Workspace
2 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.86%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) PaaS
3 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Network Security
1 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.71%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (5.71%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) Intranet
2 1 (2.86%) MQTT
2 1 (2.86%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) MySQL
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Automotive
7 1 (2.86%) Aviation
7 1 (2.86%) Back Office
7 1 (2.86%) Military
7 1 (2.86%) Police
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (54.29%) Project Manager
2 6 (17.14%) SAP Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (11.43%) SAP Project Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Project Planner
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Cabling Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) OSS Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Programme Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) PostGIS
1 1 (2.86%) REST
1 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Life Science
1 6 (17.14%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.86%) EPoS
4 1 (2.86%) Infotainment
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) PMI
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Project Management
2 15 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 15 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (37.14%) PRINCE2
4 11 (31.43%) Agile
4 11 (31.43%) Migration
5 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.86%) Time Management
7 7 (20.00%) Change Management
8 6 (17.14%) Asset Management
8 6 (17.14%) ITIL
8 6 (17.14%) Resource Allocation
9 5 (14.29%) Budgeting
9 5 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (14.29%) Critical Path Analysis
9 5 (14.29%) ERP
9 5 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (14.29%) Work Breakdown Structure
10 4 (11.43%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) PMI Certification
2 6 (17.14%) PMP
3 5 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) APMP
5 1 (2.86%) ISACA
5 1 (2.86%) ISEB
5 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) PMBOK
2 4 (11.43%) PMO
3 3 (8.57%) QA
4 2 (5.71%) COBIT
4 2 (5.71%) GDPR
4 2 (5.71%) NIST
5 1 (2.86%) ISO 9001
5 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) SAP
2 3 (8.57%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Cramer
3 2 (5.71%) Infoblox
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Remedy
4 1 (2.86%) Computacenter