Project Planning Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Project Planning
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Project Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 8.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £171 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 - -
75th Percentile £174 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -20.00% +35.14% -11.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56 68 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 82.35% 81.93% 84.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 82
10th Percentile £173 £168 £325
25th Percentile £203 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £419 £500 £558
90th Percentile £575 £570 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 9
10th Percentile - £16.65 £20.59
25th Percentile - £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £20.24 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +235.97% -12.00% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £24.22 £43.75
90th Percentile - £37.75 £51.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -2.83% -6.13% +29.94%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Project Planning job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Planning

Project Planning
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 Planning within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Uttoxeter - 1 £173 -
Project Planning
West Midlands

Project Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Active Listening
2 5 (83.33%) Coaching
2 5 (83.33%) Conflict Resolution
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) Decision-Making
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 5 (83.33%) Release Management
2 5 (83.33%) Risk Assessment
2 5 (83.33%) Service Management
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (83.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Salesforce
1 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft