Project Management Contracts in South Wales

Project Management
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 48 35 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 15.48% 7.00% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.83% 7.87% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 16 54
10th Percentile £352 £390 £217
25th Percentile £489 £407 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £466
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +1.99% +9.59%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £534
90th Percentile £673 £725 £638
Wales median daily rate £530 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -3.64% +22.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £46.75 - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £87.80 - £20.24
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £87.92 - -
Wales median hourly rate £87.80 £32.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year +170.15% +60.57% +15.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 242 445 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.06% 89.00% 83.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 338 536
10th Percentile £143 £197 £263
25th Percentile £350 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £644
Wales median daily rate £495 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.21% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 25
10th Percentile £11.11 £16.37 £14.69
25th Percentile £14.57 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -19.38% +7.27%
75th Percentile £75.75 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.68% -19.38% +9.76%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in South Wales

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in South Wales

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in South Wales

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in South Wales

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Cardiff +7 30 £519 +18.63% 19
Newport +18 18 £600 -25.00% 6
Project Management
Wales

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 11 (22.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Acrobat
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) SAP HCM
1 2 (4.17%) SAP HR
1 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) GitHub
2 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Firewall
1 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) MySQL
2 8 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Cypress.io
2 10 (20.83%) Postman
3 8 (16.67%) GitLab
4 6 (12.50%) Storybook
5 4 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (2.08%) AppScan
6 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.08%) Git
6 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) Subversion
6 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Local Government
3 11 (22.92%) Marketing
4 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.33%) Legal
6 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Bid Manager
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 9 (18.75%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (18.75%) Senior Manager
4 8 (16.67%) Project Manager
5 6 (12.50%) PHP Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (10.42%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 4 (8.33%) DBA
8 3 (6.25%) Administrator
8 3 (6.25%) Agile Project Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Administrator
8 3 (6.25%) MySQL DBA
8 3 (6.25%) Software Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Software Project Manager
9 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) SAP Architect
9 2 (4.17%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) Vue
2 10 (20.83%) Laravel
3 8 (16.67%) Playwright
4 6 (12.50%) React
5 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.17%) PySpark
7 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (39.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.42%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Agile
2 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
2 17 (35.42%) Test Automation
3 15 (31.25%) PRINCE2
3 15 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (27.08%) Value Proposition
6 12 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (22.92%) Risk Management
8 10 (20.83%) Analytics
8 10 (20.83%) Psychology
9 9 (18.75%) Critical Thinking
10 8 (16.67%) Data Analytics
11 7 (14.58%) Front End Development
11 7 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (14.58%) Scrum
12 6 (12.50%) Objectives and Key Results
12 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 6 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) PHP
1 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
2 3 (6.25%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) Bash
3 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Degree
1 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.08%) PMI Certification
2 13 (27.08%) PMP
3 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (43.75%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Ansible
1 4 (8.33%) Grafana
1 4 (8.33%) Graylog
1 4 (8.33%) Nagios
1 4 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) HP Fortify
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Nessus
2 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.08%) Puppet
2 1 (2.08%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) Adobe
3 4 (8.33%) Splunk
4 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.17%) Progress
5 2 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.08%) Veracode