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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,746 2,035 2,912
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.47% 8.91% 9.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.14% 9.97% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 1,387 2,107
10th Percentile £303 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £656 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 99 105
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.22 -
25th Percentile £27.19 £30.59 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +78.18% +4.93%
75th Percentile £44.81 £65.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £60.63 £76.00 £66.63
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.77
% change year-on-year -22.20% +49.53% +21.46%

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 17,222 20,406 27,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.58% 89.33% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,282 14,013 19,104
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £375 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,110 1,238 1,365
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.63
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -9 420 £475 -5.00% 795
North of England -1 347 £500 - 584
South West +6 322 £525 -4.55% 332
Midlands -3 214 £500 +4.17% 487
East of England +6 198 £525 +0.38% 286
North West -2 194 £500 - 339
Scotland +1 188 £450 -2.70% 192
West Midlands +1 165 £511 +7.63% 300
Yorkshire +7 123 £500 -5.21% 160
Wales +14 50 £528 -4.05% 60
East Midlands -3 48 £481 -3.75% 180
North East +12 32 £600 +50.00% 91
Northern Ireland -6 12 £435 -3.33% 30
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1
South Coast - 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 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 68 (3.89%) Confluence
3 8 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.40%) Documentum
4 7 (0.40%) SAS
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.29%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.057%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.057%) Appian
9 1 (0.057%) CICS
9 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.057%) EPiServer
Applications
1 133 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (6.87%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
4 75 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.95%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.86%) 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
10 4 (0.23%) Revit
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.11%) Lectora
11 2 (0.11%) Trello
12 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 31 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 6 (0.34%) iTrent
4 6 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
5 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.17%) Aareon QL
6 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.17%) SAP PS
7 2 (0.11%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 130 (7.45%) Azure
2 54 (3.09%) AWS
2 54 (3.09%) Power Platform
3 46 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (2.46%) GitHub
5 27 (1.55%) OCI
5 27 (1.55%) SaaS
6 24 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (1.03%) GCP
8 18 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
9 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (0.80%) PowerApps
10 10 (0.57%) PaaS
11 9 (0.52%) Kong
11 9 (0.52%) Slack
12 8 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (0.46%) Canva
12 8 (0.46%) Smartsheet
12 8 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.69%) Firewall
1 47 (2.69%) VPN
2 36 (2.06%) WAN
3 34 (1.95%) LAN
3 34 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
4 31 (1.78%) DNS
5 25 (1.43%) Intranet
6 20 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.09%) DHCP
8 18 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
8 18 (1.03%) SAN
9 14 (0.80%) 4G
9 14 (0.80%) Wireless
10 13 (0.74%) Network Security
10 13 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
11 12 (0.69%) 3GPP
11 12 (0.69%) HTTP
11 12 (0.69%) LTE
11 12 (0.69%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (2.81%) Power BI
2 17 (0.97%) MySQL
2 17 (0.97%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.40%) EDMS
8 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.23%) DB2
9 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.17%) Metadata
9 3 (0.17%) Tableau
10 2 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 167 (9.56%) JIRA
2 25 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.20%) Git
3 21 (1.20%) GitLab
4 17 (0.97%) Cypress.io
5 14 (0.80%) Postman
6 11 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.52%) Subversion
7 9 (0.52%) Travis CI
8 6 (0.34%) Storybook
9 5 (0.29%) AppScan
9 5 (0.29%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.23%) Selenium
10 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.17%) XCUITest
12 2 (0.11%) JMeter
12 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 759 (43.47%) Social Skills
2 489 (28.01%) Finance
3 245 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.48%) Organisational Skills
6 126 (7.22%) Manufacturing
7 123 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
8 91 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
9 79 (4.52%) Telecoms
10 68 (3.89%) Legal
11 59 (3.38%) Marketing
12 58 (3.32%) Aerospace
13 56 (3.21%) Electronics
14 45 (2.58%) Local Government
15 43 (2.46%) Banking
16 41 (2.35%) Retail
17 31 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (1.72%) Automotive
19 27 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 23 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 606 (34.71%) Project Manager
2 165 (9.45%) Senior
3 160 (9.16%) Analyst
4 146 (8.36%) Lead
5 134 (7.67%) Architect
6 99 (5.67%) Senior Manager
7 93 (5.33%) IT Manager
8 73 (4.18%) IT Project Manager
9 67 (3.84%) Business Analyst
10 63 (3.61%) Senior Project Manager
11 55 (3.15%) Developer
12 46 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
13 45 (2.58%) Technical Manager
14 37 (2.12%) Consultant
14 37 (2.12%) Project Leader
14 37 (2.12%) Test Architect
15 34 (1.95%) Technical Project Manager
16 30 (1.72%) Change Manager
17 29 (1.66%) PMO Analyst
17 29 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.32%) YAML
2 21 (1.20%) React
3 19 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (0.74%) .NET
4 13 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 12 (0.69%) JSON
5 12 (0.69%) Vue
6 11 (0.63%) Spring
7 10 (0.57%) Laravel
7 10 (0.57%) XML
8 8 (0.46%) Playwright
9 5 (0.29%) Kafka
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.29%) REST
10 3 (0.17%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.17%) CSS
10 3 (0.17%) HTML
10 3 (0.17%) Middleware
10 3 (0.17%) RESTful
10 3 (0.17%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.70%) Management Information System
2 51 (2.92%) Product Ownership
3 48 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.00%) Analogue Electronics
5 33 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.55%) PMI
8 24 (1.37%) Life Science
9 23 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.32%) NHS
10 21 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 16 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.86%) Driving Licence
13 15 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.69%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (0.63%) PKI
17 10 (0.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.38%) Linux
2 56 (3.21%) Windows
3 34 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.92%) zOS
8 14 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (0.80%) Windows XP
9 10 (0.57%) Android
10 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.34%) Unix
12 2 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.057%) Solaris
13 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (30.53%) Agile
2 456 (26.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 354 (20.27%) Project Delivery
4 341 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 299 (17.12%) PRINCE2
6 219 (12.54%) Change Management
7 159 (9.11%) Risk Management
8 153 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 140 (8.02%) Decision-Making
10 127 (7.27%) Project Planning
11 126 (7.22%) Waterfall
12 114 (6.53%) Business Case
13 101 (5.78%) Migration
14 99 (5.67%) DevOps
14 99 (5.67%) Programme Management
15 97 (5.56%) Scrum
16 90 (5.15%) ITIL
17 89 (5.10%) Collaborative Working
18 84 (4.81%) Business Strategy
18 84 (4.81%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 63 (3.61%) Python
2 53 (3.04%) SQL
3 41 (2.35%) PowerShell
4 28 (1.60%) Java
5 26 (1.49%) C
6 23 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.97%) Bash
8 14 (0.80%) JCL
9 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.63%) REXX
11 10 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.52%) PHP
13 8 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.34%) C++
14 6 (0.34%) Perl
15 4 (0.23%) C#
16 3 (0.17%) ABAP
16 3 (0.17%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
16 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 374 (21.42%) Security Cleared
2 263 (15.06%) Degree
3 232 (13.29%) SC Cleared
4 121 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 99 (5.67%) PMP
6 94 (5.38%) PMI Certification
7 42 (2.41%) APMP
8 36 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 30 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.60%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 24 (1.37%) CCNA
12 24 (1.37%) CCNP
13 19 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (0.74%) ISEB
15 10 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.57%) HNC
16 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (11.23%) PMO
2 100 (5.73%) QA
3 25 (1.43%) JSP 440
4 23 (1.32%) GDPR
5 20 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
7 12 (0.69%) SLA
8 10 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.46%) GxP
9 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.34%) GAMP
10 6 (0.34%) ISO 26262
11 5 (0.29%) GMP
11 5 (0.29%) MISRA
11 5 (0.29%) MISRA C
11 5 (0.29%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
11 5 (0.29%) PMBOK
11 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.20%) Docker
4 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.86%) NFS
7 14 (0.80%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.057%) ACF2
10 1 (0.057%) iptables
10 1 (0.057%) RACF
10 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (2.06%) Ansible
2 23 (1.32%) Terraform
3 22 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.15%) SCCM
4 20 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 18 (1.03%) Grafana
5 18 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.03%) vCenter Server
6 16 (0.92%) SCOM
7 15 (0.86%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (0.86%) Puppet
8 14 (0.80%) NetBackup
8 14 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.80%) WSUS
9 10 (0.57%) Kibana
9 10 (0.57%) logstash
10 9 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.52%) Graylog
11 5 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 261 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.53%) SAP
3 51 (2.92%) Oracle
4 49 (2.81%) Cisco
5 36 (2.06%) Juniper
6 30 (1.72%) Adobe
7 29 (1.66%) Dell
8 28 (1.60%) VMware
9 26 (1.49%) IBM
10 20 (1.15%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.09%) Splunk
12 17 (0.97%) CA
12 17 (0.97%) EMC
13 16 (0.92%) Extreme Networks
13 16 (0.92%) HP
13 16 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.86%) Broadcom
15 14 (0.80%) 3PAR
15 14 (0.80%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.80%) Veeam