Project Management Contracts in South Wales

Project Management
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 7 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 8 52 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.35% 15.62% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 19.55% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 42 18
10th Percentile £348 £411 £367
25th Percentile £441 £492 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +18.89% -5.46%
75th Percentile £530 £625 £638
90th Percentile £552 £667 £748
Wales median daily rate £494 £530 £485
% change year-on-year -6.84% +9.28% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £87.80 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.94% - -
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £87.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year -74.94% +170.15% +60.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 215 266 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.96% 79.88% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 188 353
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £357 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £526 £588 £583
90th Percentile £625 £669 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -19.38%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -20.78%

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 7 May 2025.

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
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 7 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
Cardiff -17 6 £515 +0.24% 19
Newport -10 2 £415 -30.83% 9
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Creative Strategist
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Development Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (12.50%) Photography
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Project Governance
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Content Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Deadline-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Statistics
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CSSLP
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Argo
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft