Applications Project Manager Contracts

Applications Project Manager
UK

The median Applications Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 663 748
Rank change year-on-year +101 +85 -116
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Project Manager 24 53 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.087% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.092% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 85
10th Percentile £514 £425 £413
25th Percentile £550 £469 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +10.58% +12.43%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £600
90th Percentile £678 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +31.58% -4.04% +23.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Applications Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Project Manager in the UK

Applications Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Project Manager in the UK

Applications Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Project Manager over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Project Manager in the UK

Applications Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Project Manager in the UK

Applications Project Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +89 22 £575 - 7
London +92 15 £565 -5.83%
Work from Home +106 6 £550 +10.00% 3
UK excluding London +59 6 £625 +31.58% 6
South East +11 4 £625 +38.89% 5
North of England +37 1 £550 +29.41%
South West +25 1 £625 +8.70% 1
Yorkshire +21 1 £550 +29.41%

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Applications 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 Applications Project Manager in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Migration
3 10 (41.67%) Project Delivery
4 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 8 (33.33%) Finance
6 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (20.83%) Project Management
9 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
9 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (12.50%) Service Migration
10 3 (12.50%) Budget Management
10 3 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
10 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 2 (8.33%) Banking
11 2 (8.33%) Document Management
11 2 (8.33%) Workflow Management
11 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
11 2 (8.33%) Documentum
11 2 (8.33%) Quality Management
11 2 (8.33%) Change Management
11 2 (8.33%) Workflow
11 2 (8.33%) Supplier Management
11 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
11 2 (8.33%) Microservices
11 2 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (8.33%) Project Governance
11 2 (8.33%) Solar Panel
11 2 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
11 2 (8.33%) Storytelling

Applications 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 2 (8.33%) Documentum
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) GitHub
1 1 (4.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.33%) Solar Panel
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Migration
3 10 (41.67%) Project Delivery
4 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (20.83%) Project Management
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Budget Management
8 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 3 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (12.50%) Service Migration
9 2 (8.33%) Change Management
9 2 (8.33%) Document Management
9 2 (8.33%) Microservices
9 2 (8.33%) Project Governance
9 2 (8.33%) Quality Management
9 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Supplier Management
9 2 (8.33%) Workflow
9 2 (8.33%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Citrix
1 1 (4.17%) FIS