Technical Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 372 380
Rank change year-on-year +32 +8 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 57 72 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.30% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.32% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 57 87
10th Percentile £351 £413 £378
25th Percentile £450 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £567 £563 £550
90th Percentile £616 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% -7.14% -
UK median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £55.13
% change year-on-year -47.37% +17.91% +69.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,219 22,597 29,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,734 15,842 20,729
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Project Manager
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 Technical Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +19 19 £520 +9.47% 13
North of England +19 13 £500 - 7
North West +24 10 £500 - 5
Scotland +42 8 £525 +2.44%
East of England +13 7 £500 -21.57% 7
West Midlands +24 5 £488 -7.14% 4
Midlands +20 5 £488 -7.14% 4
South West +10 5 £550 +11.39% 2
Yorkshire +19 3 £363 -19.44% 2
Technical Project Manager
UK

Technical Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Technical Project Manager 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 Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 34 (59.65%) Project Management
2 20 (35.09%) Agile
3 17 (29.82%) Finance
4 15 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
6 9 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 9 (15.79%) PRINCE2
7 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
8 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
8 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
9 6 (10.53%) PMP
9 6 (10.53%) PMI Certification
9 6 (10.53%) Programme Management
9 6 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
10 5 (8.77%) Budget Management
10 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (8.77%) Project Planning
10 5 (8.77%) JIRA
11 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
11 4 (7.02%) ERP
11 4 (7.02%) Change Management
11 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 3 (5.26%) Decision-Making
12 3 (5.26%) Police
12 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (5.26%) Business Case
12 3 (5.26%) GDPR
12 3 (5.26%) Work Breakdown Structure
12 3 (5.26%) Agile Project Management

Technical Project Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.75%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.75%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (1.75%) GitHub
2 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.75%) SaaS
2 1 (1.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.51%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) VPN
3 1 (1.75%) Firewall
3 1 (1.75%) LAN
3 1 (1.75%) NFC
3 1 (1.75%) RTP
3 1 (1.75%) SAN
3 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.75%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) JIRA
General
1 17 (29.82%) Finance
2 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.26%) Police
4 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Automotive
5 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.75%) Military
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) SAP PI
1 1 (1.75%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 2 (3.51%) Digital TV
2 2 (3.51%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.51%) STB
2 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.75%) CSOC
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.75%) EMV
3 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.75%) PMI
3 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (59.65%) Project Management
2 20 (35.09%) Agile
3 15 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (15.79%) PRINCE2
4 9 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
6 6 (10.53%) Programme Management
6 6 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
7 5 (8.77%) Budget Management
7 5 (8.77%) Project Planning
8 4 (7.02%) Change Management
8 4 (7.02%) ERP
8 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (5.26%) Agile Project Management
9 3 (5.26%) Business Case
9 3 (5.26%) Decision-Making
9 3 (5.26%) Project Governance
9 3 (5.26%) Roadmaps
9 3 (5.26%) Scrum
9 3 (5.26%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.51%) Perl
1 2 (3.51%) Python
2 1 (1.75%) C
2 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 6 (10.53%) PMP
3 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) HNC
4 3 (5.26%) NVQ Level 4
5 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) APMG
6 1 (1.75%) APMP
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) CCNP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) PMO
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.75%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.75%) RMADS
Vendors
1 3 (5.26%) SAP
2 2 (3.51%) Guidewire
2 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.75%) AlgoSec
3 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.75%) Cognos
3 1 (1.75%) Genesys
3 1 (1.75%) Juniper
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle