Financial Services Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Manager - Financial Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager - Financial Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 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
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 365 413
Rank change year-on-year +15 +48 +91
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Financial Services Project Manager 12 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.011% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.012% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 17
10th Percentile £405 - £500
25th Percentile £450 £825 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £850 £625
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +36.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £675
90th Percentile £725 - £730
UK median daily rate £510 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -16.73% -2.00% +4.17%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,931 16,775 20,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 92.27% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,518 10,100 13,828
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,265 1,652 1,160
10th Percentile £13.36 £13.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.40 £18.27 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +88.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.71% +70.37%

Financial Services Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Financial Services Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Services Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Financial Services Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Services Project Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Services Project Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Financial Services Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Services Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Services Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Financial Services Project Manager
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Services Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 4 £580 - 1
West Midlands -6 3 £405 -52.35% 2
Midlands -9 3 £405 -52.35% 2
North of England -20 2 £600 -
Yorkshire -10 1 - -
South West - 1 £525 -
Wales - 1 £488 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £475 -
North West - 1 £600 -
Financial Services Project Manager
UK

Financial Services Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 August 2025, Financial Services 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 UK excluding London region featuring Financial Services Project Manager in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (75.00%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Project Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) PMP
4 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Business Case
5 2 (16.67%) PMO
6 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (8.33%) Mobile Application Development
6 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (8.33%) Dependency Management
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Contingency Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Asana
6 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
6 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Change
6 1 (8.33%) Resource Management
6 1 (8.33%) Wealth Management

Financial Services Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Asana
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Project Management
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Management
5 1 (8.33%) Kanban
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
5 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Resource Management
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (25.00%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft