Project Manager Contracts in South Wales

Project Manager
Wales > South Wales

The median Project Manager daily rate in South Wales is £503 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 31 15
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 19 26 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 6.13% 5.15% 9.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.88% 5.41% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 68
10th Percentile £410 £241 £329
25th Percentile £457 £390 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £523 £497 £538
90th Percentile £527 £551 £579
Wales median daily rate £508 £425 £456
% change year-on-year +19.41% -6.85% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.03 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 - -
75th Percentile £12.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £11.64 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 276 481 835
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.03% 95.25% 96.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 367 623
10th Percentile £160 £190 £213
25th Percentile £350 £359 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £551 £586 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 34
10th Percentile £11.53 £13.00 £11.15
25th Percentile £14.57 £16.98 £11.43
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £19.33
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -6.16% +4.49%
75th Percentile £75.75 £19.98 £25.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 £47.24
Wales median hourly rate £19.00 £18.14 £19.33
% change year-on-year +4.74% -6.16% +13.71%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in South Wales

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in South Wales

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in South Wales

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in South Wales

Project Manager
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 Manager within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 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 +4 17 £508 +19.41% 3
Newport +4 2 £413 -34.00% 4
Project Manager
Wales

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Wales region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) Scrum
3 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (47.37%) Degree
4 8 (42.11%) Atlassian
4 8 (42.11%) SDLC
4 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
4 8 (42.11%) Project Management
5 7 (36.84%) Migration
5 7 (36.84%) Azure
5 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
6 6 (31.58%) JIRA
7 5 (26.32%) GitHub
7 5 (26.32%) PHP
7 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
7 5 (26.32%) Argo
8 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
8 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
8 4 (21.05%) MySQL
8 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (21.05%) Project Governance
9 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
9 3 (15.79%) Kanban
9 3 (15.79%) Finance
9 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
9 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
10 2 (10.53%) Progress

Project Manager Skill Set
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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) GitHub
2 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) AIX
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) Scrum
3 8 (42.11%) Project Management
3 8 (42.11%) SDLC
4 7 (36.84%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (21.05%) Project Governance
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (15.79%) Kanban
7 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
8 2 (10.53%) Analytics
8 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
8 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
9 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (5.26%) Dependency Management
9 1 (5.26%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) PMP
3 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Atlassian
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Progress
3 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Citrix