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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 19 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,605 5,877 6,162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.03% 7.65% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 8.49% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,373 4,041 4,246
10th Percentile £325 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% +9.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 127 131
10th Percentile £21.57 £21.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £30.25 £26.81 £24.31
Median hourly rate £48.00 £40.58 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +8.20% +31.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.38 £51.00
90th Percentile £72.33 £74.50 £69.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £49.39 £35.59
% change year-on-year -4.84% +38.77% +28.30%

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 39,726 69,214 81,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.51% 90.15% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,590 47,923 56,854
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +5.26% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £623
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,525 1,676 1,999
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.41 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.56 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.73 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +35.08% +80.56% -20.00%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 17 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 7 December 2023. 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 +4 3,060 £525 - 2,964
UK excluding London +1 1,727 £500 - 2,021
London +8 1,551 £550 - 1,100
Work from Home +3 1,335 £525 +2.44% 1,496
South East -5 424 £500 -4.40% 546
North of England +9 378 £486 -2.90% 483
Scotland +5 270 £495 +10.00% 135
South West +5 247 £525 +5.00% 254
Midlands -1 218 £516 +3.25% 348
North West +6 209 £475 -5.00% 240
Yorkshire +12 166 £500 - 186
West Midlands +11 165 £525 +3.96% 248
East of England +6 160 £545 +9.00% 254
East Midlands -8 48 £489 -2.20% 97
Wales -4 43 £463 -2.63% 63
Northern Ireland +1 13 £360 -15.29% 23
North East +18 7 £450 -10.00% 64

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
1 155 (4.30%) Confluence
2 127 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.19%) CMS
4 10 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (0.25%) SAS
6 8 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.19%) nginx
7 7 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.17%) WordPress
9 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 3 (0.083%) IIS
11 3 (0.083%) Mendix
11 3 (0.083%) ThingWorx
12 2 (0.055%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.055%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.055%) WebLogic
Applications
1 231 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 211 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
3 186 (5.16%) Microsoft Project
4 166 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 40 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.33%) Trello
8 5 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.14%) Revit
9 4 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.055%) InDesign
10 2 (0.055%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.055%) SPSS
10 2 (0.055%) Stata
10 2 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 101 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.97%) Loan IQ
3 22 (0.61%) Primavera
4 18 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 11 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
6 11 (0.31%) SAP PS
7 10 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.28%) Workfront
8 9 (0.25%) CA PPM
9 8 (0.22%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
11 6 (0.17%) SAP BPC
11 6 (0.17%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
12 5 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 282 (7.82%) Azure
2 160 (4.44%) Power Platform
3 144 (3.99%) AWS
4 108 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
5 81 (2.25%) SaaS
6 61 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 57 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (1.11%) GCP
8 40 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
9 27 (0.75%) Smartsheet
10 22 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (0.58%) GitHub
12 20 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (0.55%) Entra ID
13 18 (0.50%) Amazon S3
13 18 (0.50%) Google Workspace
13 18 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 15 (0.42%) Serverless
15 14 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (0.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.19%) Firewall
2 50 (1.39%) LAN
3 43 (1.19%) Network Security
4 41 (1.14%) WAN
5 35 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
6 32 (0.89%) VPN
7 31 (0.86%) DNS
8 23 (0.64%) Wireless
9 21 (0.58%) 5G
10 19 (0.53%) Intranet
11 18 (0.50%) Multicast
12 17 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
13 16 (0.44%) 4G
13 16 (0.44%) DHCP
13 16 (0.44%) Internet
13 16 (0.44%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.42%) SAN
15 14 (0.39%) TCP/IP
16 13 (0.36%) 3G
16 13 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.94%) Power BI
2 57 (1.58%) Relational Database
3 56 (1.55%) SQL Server
4 40 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (0.89%) Tableau
6 25 (0.69%) Big Data
7 24 (0.67%) MySQL
8 16 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 16 (0.44%) Metadata
8 16 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (0.31%) SAP HANA
11 10 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.25%) GIS
12 9 (0.25%) Power Query
13 8 (0.22%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 368 (10.21%) JIRA
2 31 (0.86%) Git
3 16 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.44%) Visual Studio
4 10 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
5 9 (0.25%) TestRail
6 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.17%) GitLab
8 5 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.11%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.11%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.11%) Subversion
9 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.083%) JMeter
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.083%) RStudio
10 3 (0.083%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.083%) Storybook
General
1 1,415 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 1,127 (31.26%) Finance
3 526 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 436 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 324 (8.99%) Banking
6 189 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
7 175 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 144 (3.99%) Telecoms
9 142 (3.94%) Marketing
10 120 (3.33%) Legal
11 119 (3.30%) Manufacturing
12 107 (2.97%) Retail
13 106 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 88 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
15 78 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 77 (2.14%) Investment Banking
17 65 (1.80%) Local Government
18 64 (1.78%) Law
19 57 (1.58%) Front Office
20 52 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,297 (35.98%) Project Manager
2 419 (11.62%) Analyst
3 278 (7.71%) Lead
4 268 (7.43%) Senior
5 222 (6.16%) IT Manager
6 213 (5.91%) Business Analyst
7 168 (4.66%) IT Project Manager
8 160 (4.44%) Senior Manager
9 148 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
10 139 (3.86%) Architect
11 119 (3.30%) Consultant
12 110 (3.05%) Technical Manager
13 106 (2.94%) Programme Manager
14 100 (2.77%) Senior Project Manager
15 96 (2.66%) Security Manager
16 90 (2.50%) Developer
17 81 (2.25%) Technical Project Manager
18 77 (2.14%) SAP Manager
19 74 (2.05%) Security Project Manager
20 72 (2.00%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (1.30%) HTML
2 39 (1.08%) CSS
3 34 (0.94%) .NET
4 25 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.64%) Middleware
6 19 (0.53%) Velocity
7 17 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
8 16 (0.44%) Rendezvous
8 16 (0.44%) XML
9 15 (0.42%) AngularJS
9 15 (0.42%) UIKit
10 13 (0.36%) ADO
11 12 (0.33%) REST
12 11 (0.31%) React
13 10 (0.28%) HTML5
13 10 (0.28%) Pandas
14 9 (0.25%) SailPoint
14 9 (0.25%) Web Services
15 8 (0.22%) Node.js
15 8 (0.22%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 199 (5.52%) Management Information System
2 117 (3.25%) Product Ownership
3 114 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 109 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 74 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 61 (1.69%) PMI
7 57 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 55 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 54 (1.50%) NHS
10 49 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 44 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 24 (0.67%) Public Cloud
14 22 (0.61%) Derivative
14 22 (0.61%) FMCG
15 20 (0.55%) Credit Risk
15 20 (0.55%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.50%) CMDB
17 17 (0.47%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.69%) Windows
2 84 (2.33%) Linux
3 49 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 30 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (0.80%) Unix
6 25 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 22 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.42%) Android
9 13 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.31%) Solaris
10 11 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 3 (0.083%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.055%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,138 (31.57%) Agile
2 807 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 668 (18.53%) Project Delivery
4 639 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
5 539 (14.95%) PRINCE2
6 392 (10.87%) Change Management
7 347 (9.63%) Migration
8 340 (9.43%) Risk Management
9 304 (8.43%) Decision-Making
10 288 (7.99%) Waterfall
11 280 (7.77%) Scrum
12 241 (6.69%) Business Case
13 237 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 236 (6.55%) ITIL
14 236 (6.55%) Programme Management
14 236 (6.55%) Roadmaps
15 225 (6.24%) Business Analysis
16 185 (5.13%) Analytics
17 183 (5.08%) Business Intelligence
18 177 (4.91%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (4.77%) SQL
2 102 (2.83%) Python
3 52 (1.44%) Java
4 49 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.08%) PowerShell
6 34 (0.94%) C#
7 24 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 15 (0.42%) C
9 14 (0.39%) Objective-C
9 14 (0.39%) Perl
9 14 (0.39%) Swift
10 13 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.33%) R
12 11 (0.31%) Bash
12 11 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.25%) VBA
14 8 (0.22%) PHP
15 7 (0.19%) Scala
15 7 (0.19%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 562 (15.59%) Degree
2 446 (12.37%) Security Cleared
3 331 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 207 (5.74%) PMI Certification
5 198 (5.49%) PMP
6 84 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 70 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 46 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.17%) APMP
11 34 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 26 (0.72%) ISEB
14 25 (0.69%) CISSP
15 23 (0.64%) CCIE
16 22 (0.61%) CCNA
16 22 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
17 20 (0.55%) ISTQB
18 18 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (10.37%) PMO
2 196 (5.44%) QA
3 76 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 50 (1.39%) SLA
5 40 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (0.83%) GDPR
7 29 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
9 25 (0.69%) NIST
10 15 (0.42%) COBIT
11 14 (0.39%) ISO 9000
12 11 (0.31%) GRC
12 11 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.22%) MiFID
14 7 (0.19%) EMIR
14 7 (0.19%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.19%) P3O
14 7 (0.19%) PMBOK
15 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.72%) Hyper-V
3 25 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.50%) Docker
5 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.22%) vSphere
8 5 (0.14%) Squid
9 3 (0.083%) Firmware
9 3 (0.083%) KVM
9 3 (0.083%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.055%) XenApp
10 2 (0.055%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.028%) Cronacle
11 1 (0.028%) NFS
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (0.97%) Terraform
2 30 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.78%) Ansible
4 16 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
5 15 (0.42%) SCCM
6 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.31%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.25%) Nagios
8 9 (0.25%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.22%) VxRail
10 7 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (0.19%) Grafana
10 7 (0.19%) Graylog
10 7 (0.19%) MOM
10 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.19%) Puppet
10 7 (0.19%) WSUS
11 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 494 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 315 (8.74%) SAP
3 157 (4.36%) Oracle
4 99 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 97 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 74 (2.05%) Cisco
7 51 (1.41%) Atlassian
8 41 (1.14%) VMware
9 40 (1.11%) Google
10 33 (0.92%) Ariba
11 31 (0.86%) Adobe
11 31 (0.86%) Red Hat
12 27 (0.75%) Workday
13 19 (0.53%) Apple
14 17 (0.47%) CheckPoint
14 17 (0.47%) Juniper
15 16 (0.44%) Azul
15 16 (0.44%) HP
15 16 (0.44%) TIBCO
16 14 (0.39%) Veritas