Project Owner Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Owner daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 - 453
Rank change year-on-year - - +66
Contract jobs requiring a Project Owner 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile £475 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
75th Percentile £525 - £644
90th Percentile - - £655
UK median daily rate £547 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Project Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Owner in the UK excluding London

Project Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Owner in the UK excluding London

Project Owner
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 Owner within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East - 1 £500 -
Project Owner
UK

Project Owner Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Project Owner 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 Project Owner in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership

Project Owner 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL