Project Management Contracts

Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,425 4,545 6,906
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.91% 7.60% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.16% 8.45% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,115 3,081 4,754
10th Percentile £313 £335 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 160 217
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.16 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.60 £30.47 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.24
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +47.41% +23.29%
75th Percentile £49.00 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.25 £80.00 £64.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.20% +78.18% +0.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +2 2,906 £525 - 2,796
UK excluding London 0 1,769 £500 - 2,023
London +6 1,329 £550 -2.65% 898
Work from Home +2 1,167 £525 +2.94% 1,107
South East -6 405 £500 - 508
North of England -4 347 £500 - 472
South West +8 326 £525 -4.11% 289
Scotland +4 217 £475 +5.56% 153
Midlands -1 208 £510 +2.00% 387
East of England +7 202 £525 +5.00% 217
North West -7 188 £516 +3.22% 287
West Midlands +1 163 £525 +5.00% 244
Yorkshire +9 131 £500 -4.76% 147
Wales +8 59 £530 +14.59% 56
East Midlands -8 42 £481 +1.32% 142
North East +20 30 £600 +50.00% 46
Northern Ireland -4 12 £435 -3.33% 21
Channel Islands - 2 £575 -

Project 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
1 172 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 93 (2.72%) Confluence
3 38 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.05%) CMS
5 13 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.32%) Drupal
7 10 (0.29%) SAS
8 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 5 (0.15%) Documentum
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.088%) IBM Notes
11 3 (0.088%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.088%) WordPress
12 2 (0.058%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 222 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 209 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
3 148 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
4 143 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
6 41 (1.20%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.41%) Acrobat
9 9 (0.26%) Trello
10 8 (0.23%) Simulink
11 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.20%) InDesign
12 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
13 5 (0.15%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.058%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 99 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.99%) Loan IQ
3 24 (0.70%) Primavera
4 12 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 11 (0.32%) SAP HCM
5 11 (0.32%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.29%) SAP HR
6 10 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
7 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.23%) Workfront
9 7 (0.20%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.18%) SAP QM
10 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 291 (8.50%) Azure
2 123 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
3 121 (3.53%) AWS
4 107 (3.12%) Power Platform
5 84 (2.45%) SaaS
6 75 (2.19%) GitHub
7 56 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (1.23%) OCI
9 40 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
11 31 (0.91%) GCP
12 28 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (0.73%) PaaS
14 24 (0.70%) Slack
15 22 (0.64%) PowerApps
16 21 (0.61%) Google Workspace
17 17 (0.50%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.47%) Smartsheet
19 15 (0.44%) WhatsApp
20 14 (0.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.84%) Firewall
2 54 (1.58%) WAN
3 52 (1.52%) VPN
4 50 (1.46%) LAN
5 47 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 40 (1.17%) DNS
7 33 (0.96%) Intranet
8 29 (0.85%) DHCP
8 29 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
9 25 (0.73%) Network Security
10 23 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 22 (0.64%) SAN
11 22 (0.64%) Wireless
12 19 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
13 16 (0.47%) 4G
13 16 (0.47%) Internet
14 11 (0.32%) 3GPP
14 11 (0.32%) VoIP
15 10 (0.29%) LTE
15 10 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (2.57%) Power BI
2 37 (1.08%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (0.91%) MySQL
5 27 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 19 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
7 18 (0.53%) Metadata
8 15 (0.44%) Tableau
9 14 (0.41%) GIS
10 13 (0.38%) Big Data
10 13 (0.38%) Data Lake
11 12 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
12 10 (0.29%) Data Mining
13 9 (0.26%) SAP HANA
14 8 (0.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 8 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (0.23%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.20%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 294 (8.58%) JIRA
2 35 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 33 (0.96%) Git
4 28 (0.82%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 15 (0.44%) Postman
8 13 (0.38%) Subversion
9 10 (0.29%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.26%) TestRail
11 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.18%) AppScan
13 6 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.18%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.18%) Travis CI
14 5 (0.15%) Storybook
15 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,436 (41.93%) Social Skills
2 1,012 (29.55%) Finance
3 533 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 342 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 232 (6.77%) Organisational Skills
6 193 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
7 181 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 176 (5.14%) Manufacturing
9 170 (4.96%) Marketing
10 166 (4.85%) Banking
11 149 (4.35%) Legal
12 141 (4.12%) Telecoms
13 106 (3.09%) Retail
14 85 (2.48%) Electronics
15 80 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 78 (2.28%) Local Government
17 69 (2.01%) Aerospace
18 62 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.49%) Front Office
20 49 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,214 (35.45%) Project Manager
2 311 (9.08%) Analyst
3 302 (8.82%) Lead
4 277 (8.09%) Senior
5 180 (5.26%) Architect
6 170 (4.96%) IT Manager
7 169 (4.93%) Business Analyst
8 168 (4.91%) Senior Manager
9 126 (3.68%) Consultant
9 126 (3.68%) IT Project Manager
10 116 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
11 106 (3.09%) Senior Project Manager
12 105 (3.07%) Technical Manager
13 93 (2.72%) Developer
14 90 (2.63%) Programme Manager
15 81 (2.36%) Security Manager
16 73 (2.13%) Technical Project Manager
17 66 (1.93%) Infrastructure Manager
18 61 (1.78%) SAP Manager
19 60 (1.75%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (0.76%) XML
2 25 (0.73%) YAML
3 22 (0.64%) React
4 20 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (0.55%) ADO
6 18 (0.53%) .NET
7 16 (0.47%) AngularJS
8 15 (0.44%) Spring
8 15 (0.44%) Vue
9 12 (0.35%) CSS
9 12 (0.35%) EDI
9 12 (0.35%) Laravel
10 11 (0.32%) ARM Templates
10 11 (0.32%) JSON
11 10 (0.29%) Azure Blueprints
12 9 (0.26%) HTML
13 7 (0.20%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (0.20%) Lambda Expressions
13 7 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.20%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 186 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 89 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 86 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 74 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 62 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (1.61%) PMI
8 37 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 35 (1.02%) NHS
10 34 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 32 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (0.91%) Analogue Electronics
13 29 (0.85%) Life Science
14 28 (0.82%) Algorithms
15 26 (0.76%) FMCG
16 24 (0.70%) Public Cloud
17 23 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
18 21 (0.61%) Derivative
19 19 (0.55%) Social Media
20 17 (0.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 113 (3.30%) Windows
2 96 (2.80%) Linux
3 46 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.67%) zOS
6 21 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.44%) Android
8 15 (0.44%) Unix
8 15 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.41%) Windows XP
10 7 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.12%) VMS
14 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.088%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.058%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,058 (30.89%) Agile
2 772 (22.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 689 (20.12%) Project Delivery
4 678 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 526 (15.36%) PRINCE2
6 430 (12.55%) Change Management
7 344 (10.04%) Risk Management
8 285 (8.32%) Decision-Making
9 281 (8.20%) Migration
10 274 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 250 (7.30%) Scrum
12 239 (6.98%) Waterfall
13 226 (6.60%) Programme Management
14 213 (6.22%) Business Case
15 207 (6.04%) Project Planning
16 202 (5.90%) DevOps
17 193 (5.64%) Roadmaps
18 180 (5.26%) Analytics
19 179 (5.23%) ITIL
20 171 (4.99%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 126 (3.68%) SQL
2 107 (3.12%) Python
3 64 (1.87%) PowerShell
4 47 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.34%) Java
6 23 (0.67%) C#
7 21 (0.61%) Bash
7 21 (0.61%) C
7 21 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 21 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 18 (0.53%) JCL
9 16 (0.47%) PHP
10 15 (0.44%) REXX
11 12 (0.35%) Scala
12 8 (0.23%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.23%) Perl
12 8 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.20%) R
13 7 (0.20%) XPath
13 7 (0.20%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 571 (16.67%) Degree
2 570 (16.64%) Security Cleared
3 381 (11.12%) SC Cleared
4 230 (6.72%) PMP
5 219 (6.39%) PMI Certification
6 160 (4.67%) DV Cleared
7 72 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 52 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 46 (1.34%) APMP
10 44 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.20%) CISSP
12 36 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 33 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 31 (0.91%) CISM
15 30 (0.88%) CCNA
15 30 (0.88%) CCNP
16 22 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
18 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (10.34%) PMO
2 215 (6.28%) QA
3 60 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 41 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.11%) GDPR
6 30 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.79%) SLA
8 26 (0.76%) JSP 440
9 19 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
10 13 (0.38%) NIST
11 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.29%) NCSC
12 10 (0.29%) P3O
13 9 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
13 9 (0.26%) GxP
14 6 (0.18%) GAMP
14 6 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.18%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 41 (1.20%) Docker
3 30 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (0.55%) NFS
6 18 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
7 11 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 4 (0.12%) ACF2
10 4 (0.12%) RACF
10 4 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.088%) KVM
11 3 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.058%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.058%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.029%) iptables
13 1 (0.029%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 53 (1.55%) Ansible
2 43 (1.26%) Terraform
3 40 (1.17%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.79%) SCCM
5 26 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 22 (0.64%) vCenter Server
7 21 (0.61%) Grafana
8 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 18 (0.53%) SCOM
11 15 (0.44%) Puppet
12 14 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.41%) WSUS
13 13 (0.38%) Graylog
13 13 (0.38%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.26%) Nagios
15 8 (0.23%) PingFederate
16 7 (0.20%) Kibana
16 7 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 506 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 308 (8.99%) SAP
3 119 (3.47%) Oracle
4 70 (2.04%) Cisco
5 58 (1.69%) Adobe
6 57 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 53 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 43 (1.26%) Google
9 42 (1.23%) VMware
10 37 (1.08%) IBM
10 37 (1.08%) Juniper
11 36 (1.05%) Dell
12 34 (0.99%) Ariba
13 30 (0.88%) Splunk
14 29 (0.85%) Atlassian
15 23 (0.67%) HP
16 22 (0.64%) Broadcom
16 22 (0.64%) CA
17 21 (0.61%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.55%) Workday