Agile Project Manager Contracts

Agile Project Manager
UK

The median Agile Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 600 630
Rank change year-on-year +74 +30 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Project Manager 58 97 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 71 181
10th Percentile £371 £415 £425
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £557 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +6.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £599
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Agile Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Agile Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Project Manager.

Daily rate trend for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Project Manager over the 6 months to 23 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Project Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 23 June 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
England +57 44 £563 -2.17% 2
London +71 29 £600 +4.80% 1
UK excluding London +1 23 £475 -13.64% 3
Work from Home +84 15 £475 -4.52% 2
Scotland +40 7 £444 -13.41% 2
South East +12 6 £600 +11.11% 1
South West -2 4 £415 -24.55%
Wales +22 3 £503 +5.79%
North of England +9 3 £421 -31.31%
North West +12 2 £392 -34.75%
Midlands +17 1 £392 -
Yorkshire +9 1 £450 -28.71%
East Midlands - 1 £392 -

Agile Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 June 2024, Agile 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 featuring Agile Project Manager in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Agile
2 32 (55.17%) Project Management
3 24 (41.38%) Scrum
4 23 (39.66%) Finance
4 23 (39.66%) Social Skills
5 16 (27.59%) PRINCE2
6 15 (25.86%) Project Delivery
7 11 (18.97%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.97%) Banking
8 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
8 10 (17.24%) Decision-Making
9 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
9 9 (15.52%) Waterfall
10 8 (13.79%) Degree
11 7 (12.07%) JIRA
11 7 (12.07%) PMP
11 7 (12.07%) Migration
11 7 (12.07%) Service Management
11 7 (12.07%) Conflict Resolution
12 6 (10.34%) Agile Project Management
12 6 (10.34%) Dependency Management
12 6 (10.34%) Risk Management
12 6 (10.34%) CRM
12 6 (10.34%) Azure
12 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
13 5 (8.62%) Time Management
13 5 (8.62%) Retail
13 5 (8.62%) PMI Certification
13 5 (8.62%) Change Management

Agile Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (5.17%) Confluence
1 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) Appian
3 1 (1.72%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Apple Pay
2 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (6.90%) Google Pay
3 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.72%) SaaS
4 1 (1.72%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Internet
1 2 (3.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) JIRA
General
1 23 (39.66%) Finance
1 23 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Banking
2 11 (18.97%) Influencing Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Retail
4 5 (8.62%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Electronics
5 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.17%) Marketing
6 2 (3.45%) Back Office
6 2 (3.45%) Front Office
6 2 (3.45%) Games
6 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) German Language
7 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.45%) Equities
3 2 (3.45%) IVR
3 2 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.72%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
1 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Agile
2 32 (55.17%) Project Management
3 24 (41.38%) Scrum
4 16 (27.59%) PRINCE2
5 15 (25.86%) Project Delivery
6 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (17.24%) Decision-Making
8 9 (15.52%) Waterfall
9 7 (12.07%) Conflict Resolution
9 7 (12.07%) Migration
9 7 (12.07%) Service Management
10 6 (10.34%) Agile Project Management
10 6 (10.34%) CRM
10 6 (10.34%) Dependency Management
10 6 (10.34%) Risk Management
11 5 (8.62%) Change Management
11 5 (8.62%) DevOps
11 5 (8.62%) Emotional Intelligence
11 5 (8.62%) Roadmaps
11 5 (8.62%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) Python
2 3 (5.17%) SQL
3 1 (1.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) Degree
3 7 (12.07%) PMP
4 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.62%) PMI Certification
6 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GRC
2 1 (1.72%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (6.90%) Apple
1 4 (6.90%) Google
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) SAP
2 3 (5.17%) Splunk
3 2 (3.45%) Adobe
3 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.45%) Progress
4 1 (1.72%) Pega
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media