Matrix Management Contracts

Matrix Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Matrix Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Matrix Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 501 564
Rank change year-on-year +31 +63 +49
Contract jobs citing Matrix Management 50 81 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 61 113
10th Percentile £464 £415 £383
25th Percentile £493 £470 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £625
90th Percentile £813 £775 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £24.06 - £28.38
25th Percentile £24.92 - £28.99
Median hourly rate £26.36 - £30.00
75th Percentile £27.79 - £37.50
90th Percentile £28.66 - £42.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.36 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -14.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Matrix Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Matrix Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Matrix Management in the UK

Matrix Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Matrix Management in the UK

Matrix Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Matrix Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Matrix Management in the UK

Matrix Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Matrix Management in the UK

Matrix Management
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 Matrix Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +29 45 £569 -1.09% 39
UK excluding London +58 31 £515 -1.90% 32
North of England +27 15 £515 +11.24% 11
North West +27 14 £515 +14.44% 6
London +13 14 £613 +2.08% 13
Work from Home +40 12 £553 +7.80% 20
Midlands +23 5 £500 - 4
West Midlands +16 5 £500 - 3
South West +44 4 £650 -8.77% 1
East of England +32 4 £513 +3.54%
Scotland +11 2 £600 +25.00% 2
South East +34 1 £500 -4.76% 11
Yorkshire +6 1 - - 5

Matrix Management
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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
1 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) MS Project Server
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (12.00%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (4.00%) Open Workbench
6 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.00%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.00%) GitHub
2 2 (4.00%) AWS
2 2 (4.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.00%) PaaS
3 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.00%) Route 53
3 1 (2.00%) SaaS
3 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Skype
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Internet
2 1 (2.00%) LAN
2 1 (2.00%) SMTP
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.00%) IDMS
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) JMeter
2 3 (6.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (6.00%) NeoLoad
3 2 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (42.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Back Office
4 4 (8.00%) Local Government
4 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Military
5 3 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Publishing
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Lead
2 7 (14.00%) Programme Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Change Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Operational Change Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Service Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Transition Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Head of Infrastructure
6 3 (6.00%) Head of Technology
6 3 (6.00%) PMO Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Engagement Manager
7 2 (4.00%) ICT Manager
7 2 (4.00%) ICT Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.00%) Test Manager
8 1 (2.00%) Digital Programme Manager
8 1 (2.00%) Programme Planning Manager
8 1 (2.00%) Service Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) OLE
2 1 (2.00%) ADO
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.00%) PMI
3 3 (6.00%) FMCG
3 3 (6.00%) Life Science
4 2 (4.00%) IoT
4 2 (4.00%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
1 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (34.00%) Agile
3 16 (32.00%) Matrix Organization
3 16 (32.00%) Project Management
4 13 (26.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (26.00%) Project Delivery
5 11 (22.00%) Business Case
5 11 (22.00%) Decision-Making
5 11 (22.00%) PRINCE2
6 10 (20.00%) Budget Management
6 10 (20.00%) ITIL
6 10 (20.00%) Service Management
7 9 (18.00%) Risk Management
7 9 (18.00%) Service Delivery
8 8 (16.00%) Change Management
8 8 (16.00%) Programme Management
8 8 (16.00%) Waterfall
9 7 (14.00%) DevOps
9 7 (14.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.00%) Java
2 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) R
2 1 (2.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) PMI Certification
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.00%) PMP
4 1 (2.00%) ACCA
4 1 (2.00%) APMP
4 1 (2.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) PMO
2 5 (10.00%) QA
3 4 (8.00%) SLA
4 3 (6.00%) GxP
4 3 (6.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (2.00%) SCCM
1 1 (2.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (6.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.00%) Ariba
5 1 (2.00%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (2.00%) Remedy
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.00%) VMware