Project Management Contracts in Staffordshire

Project Management
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 12 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 19.67% 17.07% 13.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.22% 20.79% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 18
10th Percentile £62 £350 £263
25th Percentile £95 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -64.71% -8.11% +19.35%
75th Percentile £325 £494 £533
90th Percentile £430 £550 £561
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £506 £478
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.02% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £27.09 - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.92 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.41% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.14 -
90th Percentile £35.90 £37.30 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.13
% change year-on-year -14.29% +29.01% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54 101 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 88.52% 82.11% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 63 108
10th Percentile £140 £142 £204
25th Percentile £150 £280 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £631
90th Percentile £553 £575 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 9
10th Percentile £12.40 £14.29 £22.48
25th Percentile £13.78 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +23.38% +44.36%
75th Percentile £31.00 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £36.63 £54.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.28 £21.23 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.39% -15.10% +44.93%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Staffordshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Staffordshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Staffordshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Staffordshire

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Staffordshire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Stafford +2 8 £96 -70.62% 4
Stoke-on-Trent +3 2 £500 +11.11% 12
Project Management
West Midlands

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) LAN
1 5 (41.67%) PuTTY
1 5 (41.67%) WAN
1 5 (41.67%) Wireless
1 5 (41.67%) WLAN
2 1 (8.33%) PPP
General
1 6 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
1 5 (41.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.33%) Business Case
3 1 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (8.33%) Contract Management
3 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Product Requirements
3 1 (8.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (8.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) CCNA
2 5 (41.67%) CCNP
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (41.67%) Peregrine
1 5 (41.67%) Remedy
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle