Project Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,749 2,109 2,904
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.59% 8.97% 9.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 10.03% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,427 2,114
10th Percentile £308 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 107 103
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £27.44 £30.54 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +76.36% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £61.25 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +46.97% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contract 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 Project Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
South East -6 416 £495 -1.00% 551
North of England -3 341 £500 - 537
South West +8 320 £519 -5.68% 311
Midlands -4 212 £500 +4.17% 436
Scotland +2 203 £450 - 161
East of England +6 202 £525 +5.00% 239
North West -2 191 £500 +2.56% 329
West Midlands +1 165 £525 +5.00% 284
Yorkshire +7 122 £500 -4.76% 158
Wales +15 53 £530 -3.64% 54
East Midlands -5 46 £488 +2.63% 151
North East +12 30 £600 +50.00% 58
Northern Ireland -6 11 £435 -3.33% 26
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1
Project Management
UK

Project Management
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 81 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.72%) Confluence
3 8 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.46%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 6 (0.34%) Documentum
5 3 (0.17%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.11%) nginx
6 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.057%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.057%) CICS
7 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.057%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 136 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (5.20%) Microsoft Project
4 77 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.63%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.46%) Simulink
9 5 (0.29%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.29%) TargetLink
10 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.17%) Revit
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.11%) Lectora
13 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.80%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HCM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HR
3 7 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 6 (0.34%) iTrent
5 5 (0.29%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.23%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
6 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.17%) Aareon QL
7 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.17%) SAP PS
8 2 (0.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 134 (7.66%) Azure
2 56 (3.20%) AWS
2 56 (3.20%) Power Platform
3 49 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (2.40%) GitHub
5 29 (1.66%) OCI
6 27 (1.54%) SaaS
7 25 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (0.91%) GCP
9 16 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
10 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (0.74%) PowerApps
12 9 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (0.51%) Slack
13 8 (0.46%) Canva
13 8 (0.46%) Kong
13 8 (0.46%) Smartsheet
13 8 (0.46%) Yammer
14 7 (0.40%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.74%) Firewall
2 44 (2.52%) VPN
3 35 (2.00%) WAN
4 34 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
5 33 (1.89%) DNS
5 33 (1.89%) LAN
6 26 (1.49%) Intranet
7 22 (1.26%) DHCP
8 20 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
8 20 (1.14%) SAN
8 20 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.97%) 4G
9 17 (0.97%) Wireless
10 15 (0.86%) Network Security
11 13 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (0.69%) 3GPP
12 12 (0.69%) LTE
12 12 (0.69%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.57%) HTTP
14 8 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.86%) Power BI
2 21 (1.20%) MySQL
3 20 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.97%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (0.34%) EDMS
9 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.23%) DB2
9 4 (0.23%) Metadata
9 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.23%) Tableau
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.11%) MS Access
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (9.26%) JIRA
2 25 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.20%) GitLab
4 19 (1.09%) Git
5 17 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 14 (0.80%) Postman
7 10 (0.57%) Subversion
8 9 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.46%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.46%) Travis CI
10 6 (0.34%) Storybook
11 5 (0.29%) AppScan
11 5 (0.29%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.23%) Selenium
13 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.17%) XCUITest
14 2 (0.11%) JMeter
14 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 763 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 495 (28.30%) Finance
3 258 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (12.69%) Public Sector
5 150 (8.58%) Organisational Skills
6 123 (7.03%) Manufacturing
7 121 (6.92%) Influencing Skills
8 99 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
9 81 (4.63%) Telecoms
10 64 (3.66%) Legal
11 58 (3.32%) Aerospace
12 55 (3.14%) Electronics
13 53 (3.03%) Marketing
14 45 (2.57%) Banking
15 42 (2.40%) Local Government
16 40 (2.29%) Retail
17 38 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (1.60%) Automotive
19 25 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 25 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 591 (33.79%) Project Manager
2 166 (9.49%) Lead
3 158 (9.03%) Senior
4 157 (8.98%) Analyst
5 128 (7.32%) Architect
6 93 (5.32%) Senior Manager
7 89 (5.09%) IT Manager
8 69 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 68 (3.89%) IT Project Manager
10 55 (3.14%) Senior Project Manager
11 53 (3.03%) Developer
12 50 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
13 43 (2.46%) Technical Manager
14 37 (2.12%) Project Leader
15 35 (2.00%) Test Architect
16 32 (1.83%) Consultant
16 32 (1.83%) Technical Project Manager
17 30 (1.72%) Programme Manager
18 29 (1.66%) Change Manager
18 29 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.26%) YAML
2 21 (1.20%) React
3 19 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 12 (0.69%) .NET
5 12 (0.69%) Vue
6 11 (0.63%) JSON
6 11 (0.63%) Spring
7 10 (0.57%) Laravel
8 9 (0.51%) XML
9 8 (0.46%) Playwright
10 4 (0.23%) Kafka
11 3 (0.17%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.17%) Middleware
11 3 (0.17%) ModSecurity
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (0.17%) PySpark
11 3 (0.17%) REST
12 2 (0.11%) EDI
12 2 (0.11%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.63%) Management Information System
2 50 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 48 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 37 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 33 (1.89%) Analogue Electronics
6 31 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.60%) PMI
8 26 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.32%) Life Science
9 23 (1.32%) NHS
10 21 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 20 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 16 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.86%) Driving Licence
14 14 (0.80%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.69%) PKI
16 10 (0.57%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.57%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.60%) Linux
2 62 (3.54%) Windows
3 35 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 20 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (0.91%) zOS
8 14 (0.80%) Windows XP
9 11 (0.63%) Android
10 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.40%) Unix
11 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.17%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.11%) VMS
13 1 (0.057%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (30.25%) Agile
2 464 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 353 (20.18%) Project Delivery
4 346 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (16.87%) PRINCE2
6 216 (12.35%) Change Management
7 155 (8.86%) Risk Management
8 152 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (7.60%) Decision-Making
10 130 (7.43%) Project Planning
11 127 (7.26%) Waterfall
12 114 (6.52%) Business Case
13 105 (6.00%) Migration
14 100 (5.72%) Scrum
15 99 (5.66%) DevOps
16 98 (5.60%) Collaborative Working
17 97 (5.55%) Programme Management
18 89 (5.09%) ITIL
19 88 (5.03%) Roadmaps
20 83 (4.75%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 59 (3.37%) Python
2 52 (2.97%) SQL
3 40 (2.29%) PowerShell
4 30 (1.72%) Java
5 25 (1.43%) C
6 22 (1.26%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.91%) Bash
8 14 (0.80%) JCL
9 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.63%) REXX
11 10 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.51%) PHP
13 8 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.34%) Perl
15 5 (0.29%) C++
16 4 (0.23%) C#
17 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
17 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.17%) SystemVerilog
17 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 387 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 264 (15.09%) Degree
3 242 (13.84%) SC Cleared
4 125 (7.15%) DV Cleared
5 99 (5.66%) PMP
6 93 (5.32%) PMI Certification
7 44 (2.52%) APMP
8 36 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 24 (1.37%) CCNA
12 23 (1.32%) CCNP
13 19 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (0.74%) ISEB
16 10 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.57%) HNC
16 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (11.55%) PMO
2 105 (6.00%) QA
3 26 (1.49%) JSP 440
4 22 (1.26%) GDPR
5 20 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
7 12 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.69%) SLA
8 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.40%) GxP
10 7 (0.40%) NIST
11 6 (0.34%) GAMP
11 6 (0.34%) ISO 26262
12 5 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
12 5 (0.29%) GMP
12 5 (0.29%) MISRA
12 5 (0.29%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.23%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (1.09%) Docker
5 17 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.86%) NFS
7 14 (0.80%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.23%) vSphere
9 3 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.057%) ACF2
11 1 (0.057%) iptables
11 1 (0.057%) RACF
11 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 35 (2.00%) Ansible
2 23 (1.32%) Terraform
3 22 (1.26%) SCCM
4 21 (1.20%) vCenter Server
5 20 (1.14%) Kubernetes
5 20 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 18 (1.03%) Grafana
6 18 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.91%) SCOM
8 15 (0.86%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (0.80%) NetBackup
9 14 (0.80%) Puppet
9 14 (0.80%) WSUS
10 13 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.57%) Graylog
12 9 (0.51%) Kibana
12 9 (0.51%) logstash
13 8 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 262 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.86%) SAP
3 52 (2.97%) Oracle
4 47 (2.69%) Cisco
5 36 (2.06%) Juniper
6 32 (1.83%) VMware
7 29 (1.66%) Adobe
7 29 (1.66%) Dell
8 24 (1.37%) IBM
9 20 (1.14%) HP
10 19 (1.09%) Splunk
11 17 (0.97%) CA
11 17 (0.97%) EMC
11 17 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 16 (0.91%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 16 (0.91%) Veeam
13 15 (0.86%) Broadcom
13 15 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.86%) Symantec