Project Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 201 244
Rank change year-on-year +28 +43 -18
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 177 215 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.39% 1.04% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.22% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 121 154
10th Percentile £310 £213 £333
25th Percentile £406 £313 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £542 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £609 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 20
10th Percentile £17.42 £24.14 £29.79
25th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £46.30 £57.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% +17.35% +23.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.63 £62.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.32 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £56.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% +14.80% +10.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Project Planning 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
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 Planning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +25 50 £500 - 75
Midlands +35 40 £500 +5.26% 67
South East +23 35 £425 +6.25% 109
West Midlands +23 30 £500 +5.26% 35
Scotland +30 29 £482 +1.53% 26
North West +25 28 £500 +1.27% 35
Yorkshire +7 18 £506 +1.25% 25
South West +3 16 £488 +14.71% 51
East Midlands +16 10 £425 -30.04% 26
East of England +22 4 - - 45
Wales +1 4 £438 +34.62% 8
North East -1 4 £538 +65.38% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £300 - 6
Project Planning
UK

Project Planning
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 4 (2.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Appian
Applications
1 34 (19.21%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.82%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.13%) Open Workbench
7 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (5.08%) Primavera
2 8 (4.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (3.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 5 (2.82%) SAP PS
5 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.13%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (4.52%) AWS
2 5 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (2.82%) Amazon Glacier
2 5 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
2 5 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.82%) Power Platform
2 5 (2.82%) SaaS
2 5 (2.82%) Serverless
3 4 (2.26%) Azure
4 3 (1.69%) Google Workspace
5 2 (1.13%) Matillion
5 2 (1.13%) PaaS
5 2 (1.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.56%) IaaS
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) WAN
2 3 (1.69%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.13%) LAN
3 2 (1.13%) Network Security
3 2 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.56%) ADSL
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) MQTT
4 1 (0.56%) PSTN
4 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.56%) SDH
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.21%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
2 5 (2.82%) Power BI
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.69%) Tableau
4 2 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) GIS
5 1 (0.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.34%) JIRA
2 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.69%) Git
3 3 (1.69%) Plastic SCM
4 2 (1.13%) GitLab
4 2 (1.13%) Maven
4 2 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.56%) NetBeans
General
1 71 (40.11%) Social Skills
2 65 (36.72%) Finance
3 23 (12.99%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.08%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.95%) Banking
7 7 (3.95%) Legal
7 7 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.39%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.39%) Automotive
8 6 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.82%) Retail
10 4 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.26%) Marketing
11 3 (1.69%) Games
11 3 (1.69%) Local Government
11 3 (1.69%) Military
12 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (36.16%) Project Manager
2 18 (10.17%) Architect
3 15 (8.47%) Project Planner
4 13 (7.34%) Lead
4 13 (7.34%) Senior
5 11 (6.21%) Developer
6 10 (5.65%) Analyst
6 10 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.52%) Engagement Manager
7 8 (4.52%) IT Manager
7 8 (4.52%) IT Project Manager
7 8 (4.52%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (3.95%) Infrastructure Manager
8 7 (3.95%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 6 (3.39%) Applications Architect
9 6 (3.39%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.39%) Security Manager
9 6 (3.39%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.39%) Senior Project Manager
9 6 (3.39%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (2.82%) Kafka
1 5 (2.82%) RESTful
2 3 (1.69%) CSS
2 3 (1.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.56%) POSIX
3 1 (0.56%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.56%) REST
3 1 (0.56%) XML
3 1 (0.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.65%) Data Centre
1 10 (5.65%) PMI
2 7 (3.95%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (3.39%) Blockchain
3 6 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.39%) IoT
3 6 (3.39%) Life Science
3 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.69%) Infotainment
6 3 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.69%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.13%) EPoS
7 2 (1.13%) Replication
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.82%) Linux
1 5 (2.82%) Windows
2 2 (1.13%) HPUX
2 2 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.13%) Solaris
2 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (46.89%) Project Management
2 61 (34.46%) Agile
3 47 (26.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (22.03%) Project Delivery
5 36 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (19.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 31 (17.51%) Risk Management
8 30 (16.95%) Migration
9 29 (16.38%) PRINCE2
10 27 (15.25%) Change Management
11 20 (11.30%) Budget Management
12 19 (10.73%) Roadmaps
13 16 (9.04%) Mentoring
13 16 (9.04%) SDLC
14 15 (8.47%) DevOps
14 15 (8.47%) Waterfall
15 14 (7.91%) Decision-Making
15 14 (7.91%) Time Management
16 13 (7.34%) Critical Path Analysis
16 13 (7.34%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.47%) SQL
2 12 (6.78%) PL/SQL
3 5 (2.82%) Java
4 3 (1.69%) C#
5 2 (1.13%) Bash
5 2 (1.13%) COBOL
5 2 (1.13%) Perl
5 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.13%) Python
6 1 (0.56%) C
6 1 (0.56%) C++
6 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 32 (18.08%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.43%) Degree
3 19 (10.73%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.17%) PMI Certification
5 11 (6.21%) PMP
6 8 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.56%) APMP
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.56%) HNC
8 1 (0.56%) ISACA
8 1 (0.56%) ISEB
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.86%) PMO
2 10 (5.65%) QA
3 6 (3.39%) PMBOK
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
5 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.13%) COBIT
5 2 (1.13%) COSHH
5 2 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.13%) ISO 14001
5 2 (1.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.56%) MISRA
6 1 (0.56%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (3.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.13%) Amdocs OSS
1 2 (1.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.56%) SCSM
Vendors
1 23 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.73%) SAP
3 17 (9.60%) Oracle
4 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.69%) Cisco
4 3 (1.69%) Google
4 3 (1.69%) Remedy
5 2 (1.13%) Cramer
5 2 (1.13%) HP
5 2 (1.13%) IBM
5 2 (1.13%) Infoblox
5 2 (1.13%) Perforce
5 2 (1.13%) Sun
5 2 (1.13%) Unisys
6 1 (0.56%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.56%) Databricks
6 1 (0.56%) Dell
6 1 (0.56%) Pega
6 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.56%) Veeam