APMP Contracts

Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for APMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 530 623
Rank change year-on-year +40 +93 +73
Contract jobs citing APMP 29 70 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.52% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 77
10th Percentile £413 £413 £360
25th Percentile £444 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.59% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £553 £712 £594
90th Percentile £588 - £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.50 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £26.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.46% -35.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £63.00 £26.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -35.00% -60.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

APMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

APMP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing APMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for APMP in the UK

APMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing APMP.

Daily rate trend for APMP in the UK

APMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing APMP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for APMP in the UK

APMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing APMP.

Hourly rate trend for APMP in the UK

APMP
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing APMP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +26 26 £475 -17.39% 31
UK excluding London +28 25 £450 -14.29% 20
North of England +34 11 £438 -16.67% 4
Work from Home +33 11 £450 -20.00% 14
Yorkshire - 10 £438 - 2
South East +42 9 £513 +35.09% 9
London +27 4 £500 -29.78% 10
Scotland +9 3 £436 -6.93%
Midlands +20 2 £581 - 4
West Midlands +15 2 £581 - 4
North West +7 1 - - 2

APMP
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 6 (20.69%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Azure
1 1 (3.45%) OCI
1 1 (3.45%) PaaS
1 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Skype
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Local Government
5 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Project Manager
2 8 (27.59%) Technical Manager
3 6 (20.69%) Bid Manager
3 6 (20.69%) Bid Writer
4 5 (17.24%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (17.24%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 4 (13.79%) Network Delivery Manager
5 4 (13.79%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Healthcare Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Bid Writer
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Writer
7 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Programme Manager
7 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Delivery Project Manager
8 1 (3.45%) IT Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) ADO
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.45%) PMI
1 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Agile
2 15 (51.72%) Project Management
3 14 (48.28%) PRINCE2
4 11 (37.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.69%) Storyboarding
6 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
7 4 (13.79%) Cost Control
7 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
7 4 (13.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (13.79%) Supplier Management
8 3 (10.34%) Change Management
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery
9 2 (6.90%) Contract Management
9 2 (6.90%) DevOps
9 2 (6.90%) Matrix Organization
9 2 (6.90%) Product Management
9 2 (6.90%) Resource Management
9 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) PMP
2 5 (17.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 4 (13.79%) PMI Certification
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) ISEB
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) PMO
2 3 (10.34%) P3O
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Cisco
2 4 (13.79%) CheckPoint
2 4 (13.79%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) IFS
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Openreach
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Snow