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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 188 246
Rank change year-on-year +14 +58 -33
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 175 222 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.07% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.28% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 126 123
10th Percentile £310 £213 £363
25th Percentile £383 £313 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -3.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £541 £569 £575
90th Percentile £600 £614 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 20
10th Percentile £28.18 £23.45 £29.79
25th Percentile £46.30 £28.00 £41.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £53.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +8.16% +30.91%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.90 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £54.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% +10.20% +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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +19 45 £500 - 248
Midlands +25 41 £500 +5.26% 240
South East +30 34 £425 +3.03% 299
Scotland +26 31 £482 +1.53% 58
West Midlands +21 30 £500 +5.26% 137
North West +20 26 £513 +7.89% 111
South West +1 18 £475 +11.76% 146
Yorkshire +19 17 £500 - 102
East Midlands +16 11 £450 -24.37% 88
East of England +26 4 - - 163
Wales +3 4 £438 +34.62% 32
North East -3 2 £498 +53.23% 35
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 2 (1.14%) Confluence
1 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.57%) Appian
Applications
1 32 (18.29%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.57%) InDesign
7 1 (0.57%) Open Workbench
7 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (6.86%) Primavera
2 9 (5.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (4.00%) SAP PS
4 6 (3.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 3 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.14%) Sprinklr
6 2 (1.14%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (4.57%) AWS
2 6 (3.43%) SaaS
3 5 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (2.86%) Amazon Glacier
3 5 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (2.86%) Amazon S3
3 5 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
3 5 (2.86%) Serverless
4 4 (2.29%) Azure
4 4 (2.29%) Matillion
4 4 (2.29%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.71%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.57%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.57%) PaaS
6 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.57%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) WAN
2 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.57%) ADSL
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) Intranet
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) MQTT
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) PSTN
3 1 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.57%) SDH
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.29%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 5 (2.86%) Power BI
3 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.14%) Tableau
4 1 (0.57%) GIS
4 1 (0.57%) MySQL
4 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.71%) JIRA
2 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.71%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) Plastic SCM
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.57%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Maven
5 1 (0.57%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 72 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 67 (38.29%) Finance
3 20 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.86%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.14%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.00%) Banking
7 7 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.00%) Legal
7 7 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.00%) Retail
8 6 (3.43%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.43%) Automotive
8 6 (3.43%) Marketing
8 6 (3.43%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.71%) Games
9 3 (1.71%) Law
9 3 (1.71%) Military
10 2 (1.14%) Billing
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (34.29%) Project Manager
2 17 (9.71%) Architect
3 16 (9.14%) Project Planner
4 15 (8.57%) Lead
5 14 (8.00%) Senior
6 10 (5.71%) Analyst
6 10 (5.71%) Developer
6 10 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 7 (4.00%) Engagement Manager
7 7 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
7 7 (4.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 7 (4.00%) Security Manager
7 7 (4.00%) Security Project Manager
7 7 (4.00%) Senior Manager
7 7 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
8 6 (3.43%) Applications Architect
8 6 (3.43%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 6 (3.43%) IT Manager
8 6 (3.43%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (2.86%) Kafka
1 5 (2.86%) RESTful
2 4 (2.29%) CSS
3 3 (1.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (0.57%) Flash
4 1 (0.57%) HTML
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.57%) POSIX
4 1 (0.57%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.57%) REST
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.57%) XML
4 1 (0.57%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.29%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.14%) PMI
3 8 (4.57%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (3.43%) Blockchain
5 6 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.43%) IoT
5 6 (3.43%) Life Science
5 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.71%) Infotainment
7 3 (1.71%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.71%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.14%) EPoS
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) Replication
9 1 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.86%) Linux
1 5 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (1.14%) HPUX
2 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.14%) Solaris
2 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (47.43%) Project Management
2 60 (34.29%) Agile
3 48 (27.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (24.00%) Project Delivery
5 35 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (18.29%) Migration
8 30 (17.14%) PRINCE2
9 27 (15.43%) Risk Management
10 23 (13.14%) Change Management
11 19 (10.86%) Roadmaps
12 17 (9.71%) Budget Management
12 17 (9.71%) Mentoring
13 16 (9.14%) SDLC
14 14 (8.00%) DevOps
14 14 (8.00%) Resource Allocation
14 14 (8.00%) Time Management
14 14 (8.00%) Waterfall
15 13 (7.43%) Critical Path Analysis
15 13 (7.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.57%) SQL
2 12 (6.86%) PL/SQL
3 5 (2.86%) Java
4 3 (1.71%) C#
5 2 (1.14%) Bash
5 2 (1.14%) COBOL
5 2 (1.14%) Perl
5 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.14%) Python
6 1 (0.57%) C
6 1 (0.57%) C++
6 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.71%) Degree
3 22 (12.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.71%) PMI Certification
5 12 (6.86%) PMP
6 11 (6.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) APMP
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) CBAP
8 1 (0.57%) HNC
8 1 (0.57%) ISEB
8 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.29%) PMO
2 12 (6.86%) QA
3 6 (3.43%) PMBOK
4 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.14%) COSHH
4 2 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.14%) GDPR
4 2 (1.14%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.57%) COBIT
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.57%) MISRA
5 1 (0.57%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) P3O
5 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.14%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (0.57%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.57%) SCSM
Vendors
1 23 (13.14%) SAP
2 22 (12.57%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.57%) Oracle
4 3 (1.71%) Cisco
4 3 (1.71%) Google
4 3 (1.71%) Remedy
5 2 (1.14%) Avaya
5 2 (1.14%) Cramer
5 2 (1.14%) Genesys
5 2 (1.14%) HP
5 2 (1.14%) IBM
5 2 (1.14%) IFS
5 2 (1.14%) Infoblox
5 2 (1.14%) Perforce
5 2 (1.14%) Sun
5 2 (1.14%) Unisys
6 1 (0.57%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) Facebook
6 1 (0.57%) Instagram
6 1 (0.57%) YouTube