Project Manager Contracts in Surrey

Project Manager
South East > Surrey

The median Project Manager daily rate in Surrey is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 20 41
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 14 41 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 4.36% 7.17% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.52% 7.74% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 37 27
10th Percentile £449 £345 £508
25th Percentile £500 £363 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £756
90th Percentile £675 £688 £868
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.73 -
South East median hourly rate £48.64 £63.50 £72.33
% change year-on-year -23.40% -12.21% +10.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 310 530 682
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.57% 92.66% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 385 546
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £301 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £638
90th Percentile £621 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 43 21
10th Percentile £14.81 £15.96 £16.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.99 £29.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.45 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.80 £76.86 £61.63
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £49.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +17.04% +122.22%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Surrey

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Surrey

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Surrey over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Surrey

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Surrey

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Staines - 2 £650 - 1
Woking +5 1 - - 2
Guildford -2 1 £600 -4.00% 1
Epsom -6 1 £550 -12.00% 1
Project Manager
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, 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 Surrey region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Project Management
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (28.57%) JIRA
5 4 (28.57%) Project Governance
5 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
6 3 (21.43%) Business Case
6 3 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (21.43%) PMO
6 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
6 3 (21.43%) SAP
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Change Management
7 2 (14.29%) Firewall
7 2 (14.29%) PMP
7 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
7 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
7 2 (14.29%) CRM
7 2 (14.29%) ERP
7 2 (14.29%) Degree
7 2 (14.29%) Google

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Project Management
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Project Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Business Case
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
6 2 (14.29%) CRM
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) ERP
6 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 2 (14.29%) PMP
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) IFS
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto