Portfolio Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Portfolio Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Portfolio Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Portfolio Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 108 122
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +36
Contract jobs citing Portfolio Management 14 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.96% 1.25% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.44% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 14
10th Percentile - £446 £431
25th Percentile - £456 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.64% +22.00%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile £705 - £696
South East median daily rate £650 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +22.35% -11.46% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £42.34 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Portfolio 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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,360 2,287 2,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.83% 86.96% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,283 1,794
10th Percentile £299 £213 £319
25th Percentile £411 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £603
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 168 63
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.28 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £31.78 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% -14.29% +205.06%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.72 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.60 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +127.91%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Portfolio Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Portfolio Management in the Thames Valley

Portfolio Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Portfolio Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Portfolio Management in the Thames Valley

Portfolio Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Portfolio Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Portfolio Management in the Thames Valley

Portfolio Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Portfolio Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Buckinghamshire +15 9 £650 +8.33% 2
Berkshire +6 5 £713 +54.89% 4
Portfolio Management
South East

Portfolio Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (64.29%) SAS
2 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Credit Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Credit Risk Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) PMI
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Analytics
1 9 (64.29%) Stress Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Credit Risk Management
2 5 (35.71%) Internal Audit
2 5 (35.71%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Change Control
4 3 (21.43%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Programme Management
6 1 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (7.14%) Scrum
6 1 (7.14%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) APMP
2 1 (7.14%) CISA
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PgMP
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) IFRS
1 9 (64.29%) IFRS 9
2 3 (21.43%) P3O
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) IFS
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Zscaler