Applications Project Manager Contracts

Applications Project Manager
UK

The median Applications Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 646 740
Rank change year-on-year +81 +94 -85
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Project Manager 25 53 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.092% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.097% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 46 82
10th Percentile £509 £425 £413
25th Percentile £550 £503 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +13.51%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £597
90th Percentile £685 £706 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +22.55% +7.37% +20.63%

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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

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 11 May 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 11 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
England +81 23 £600 +4.35% 3
London +80 14 £565 -5.83%
UK excluding London +44 7 £625 +22.55% 3
Work from Home +99 6 £550 +2.80%
South East +17 5 £625 +28.21% 2
North of England +33 1 £550 +29.41%
Yorkshire +17 1 £550 +29.41%
South West +12 1 £625 +8.70%

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Migration
3 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 9 (36.00%) Finance
5 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (24.00%) Waterfall
7 5 (20.00%) Mobile App
7 5 (20.00%) Project Management
8 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.00%) Service Migration
9 3 (12.00%) Critical Thinking
9 3 (12.00%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (12.00%) Retail
9 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
10 2 (8.00%) Documentum
10 2 (8.00%) E-Commerce
10 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (8.00%) Workflow
10 2 (8.00%) Banking
10 2 (8.00%) Quality Management
10 2 (8.00%) Change Management
10 2 (8.00%) Document Management
10 2 (8.00%) Workflow Management
10 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
10 2 (8.00%) Degree
10 2 (8.00%) JIRA
10 2 (8.00%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (8.00%) Supplier Management
10 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared

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 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) BigCommerce
1 1 (4.00%) GitHub
1 1 (4.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ADO
1 1 (4.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.00%) Solar Panel
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Migration
3 10 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (20.00%) Project Management
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) Critical Thinking
8 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
8 3 (12.00%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (12.00%) Service Migration
9 2 (8.00%) Change Management
9 2 (8.00%) Document Management
9 2 (8.00%) E-Commerce
9 2 (8.00%) Microservices
9 2 (8.00%) Quality Management
9 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) Supplier Management
9 2 (8.00%) Workflow
9 2 (8.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PMP
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe
2 1 (4.00%) Citrix
2 1 (4.00%) FIS
2 1 (4.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) Sitecore