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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,370 4,419 6,881
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.87% 7.61% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 8.47% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,069 2,993 4,752
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% +6.67%
75th Percentile £623 £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 265 153 211
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.28 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.42 £30.54 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +22.22%
75th Percentile £49.00 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.20% +78.18% -

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 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 May 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 7 May 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 7 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 +2 2,869 £525 -1.45% 3,403
UK excluding London 0 1,747 £500 - 2,396
London +4 1,294 £550 -4.35% 1,101
Work from Home +3 1,143 £525 +2.94% 1,389
South East -7 412 £489 -2.25% 586
North of England -2 345 £500 - 564
South West +7 321 £525 -4.55% 318
Midlands -2 206 £505 +1.00% 502
Scotland +4 204 £450 - 164
East of England +6 203 £525 +5.00% 261
North West -2 192 £500 - 346
West Midlands +2 160 £525 +5.00% 329
Yorkshire +9 125 £500 -4.76% 172
Wales +15 54 £530 +0.95% 63
East Midlands -5 45 £488 +2.09% 173
North East +17 30 £600 +55.84% 53
Northern Ireland -6 11 £435 -3.33% 28
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1

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
1 168 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 95 (2.82%) Confluence
3 38 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.07%) CMS
5 13 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.33%) Drupal
7 10 (0.30%) SAS
8 5 (0.15%) Apache
8 5 (0.15%) Documentum
8 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) CICS
9 4 (0.12%) nginx
9 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.089%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.059%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 224 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 217 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
3 152 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
4 141 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 56 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (1.31%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.42%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.30%) Trello
10 8 (0.24%) Simulink
11 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.21%) 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 (0.059%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.059%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 94 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.92%) Loan IQ
3 23 (0.68%) Primavera
4 11 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 11 (0.33%) SAP HCM
4 11 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.30%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.24%) Workfront
8 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.18%) iTrent
9 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 279 (8.28%) Azure
2 125 (3.71%) AWS
3 121 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
4 108 (3.20%) Power Platform
5 89 (2.64%) SaaS
6 72 (2.14%) GitHub
7 53 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (1.34%) OCI
9 41 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
11 33 (0.98%) GCP
12 27 (0.80%) PaaS
13 25 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (0.71%) Slack
15 22 (0.65%) PowerApps
16 21 (0.62%) Google Workspace
17 17 (0.50%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.47%) Smartsheet
18 16 (0.47%) WhatsApp
19 15 (0.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.87%) Firewall
2 55 (1.63%) WAN
3 52 (1.54%) VPN
4 47 (1.39%) LAN
4 47 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
5 40 (1.19%) DNS
6 31 (0.92%) Intranet
7 29 (0.86%) DHCP
7 29 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
8 24 (0.71%) Network Security
9 23 (0.68%) SAN
9 23 (0.68%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.65%) Wireless
11 20 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
12 18 (0.53%) 4G
13 15 (0.45%) Internet
14 13 (0.39%) 3GPP
15 12 (0.36%) LTE
15 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
16 11 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (2.82%) Power BI
2 45 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (0.83%) MySQL
5 26 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 19 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
6 19 (0.56%) Tableau
7 17 (0.50%) Metadata
8 13 (0.39%) GIS
9 12 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.33%) Big Data
10 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
11 10 (0.30%) Data Mining
12 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.21%) EDMS
14 7 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 291 (8.64%) JIRA
2 34 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 33 (0.98%) Git
4 27 (0.80%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.47%) Postman
6 16 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 13 (0.39%) Subversion
8 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.27%) TestRail
10 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.18%) AppScan
11 6 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.18%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.18%) Travis CI
12 5 (0.15%) Storybook
13 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,417 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 1,001 (29.70%) Finance
3 529 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 219 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
6 191 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
7 182 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
8 174 (5.16%) Banking
9 172 (5.10%) Manufacturing
10 167 (4.96%) Marketing
11 149 (4.42%) Legal
12 136 (4.04%) Telecoms
13 102 (3.03%) Retail
14 85 (2.52%) Electronics
15 77 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 76 (2.26%) Local Government
17 70 (2.08%) Aerospace
18 57 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 49 (1.45%) Law
20 48 (1.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,188 (35.25%) Project Manager
2 310 (9.20%) Analyst
3 299 (8.87%) Lead
4 274 (8.13%) Senior
5 179 (5.31%) Architect
6 169 (5.01%) Business Analyst
7 164 (4.87%) IT Manager
8 163 (4.84%) Senior Manager
9 125 (3.71%) IT Project Manager
10 122 (3.62%) Consultant
11 116 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
12 100 (2.97%) Senior Project Manager
13 99 (2.94%) Technical Manager
14 92 (2.73%) Developer
15 84 (2.49%) Programme Manager
16 78 (2.31%) Security Manager
17 69 (2.05%) Technical Project Manager
18 64 (1.90%) Infrastructure Manager
19 61 (1.81%) SAP Manager
20 58 (1.72%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (0.77%) React
1 26 (0.77%) XML
1 26 (0.77%) YAML
2 24 (0.71%) .NET
3 20 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (0.47%) ADO
5 15 (0.45%) Spring
5 15 (0.45%) Vue
6 14 (0.42%) AngularJS
7 13 (0.39%) EDI
8 12 (0.36%) Laravel
9 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
10 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.30%) CSS
10 10 (0.30%) JSON
11 7 (0.21%) HTML
11 7 (0.21%) Playwright
11 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.21%) Web Services
12 6 (0.18%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 183 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 88 (2.61%) Product Ownership
3 85 (2.52%) Data Centre
4 79 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 62 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (1.69%) PMI
7 54 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 35 (1.04%) NHS
10 34 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 32 (0.95%) Analogue Electronics
11 32 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 29 (0.86%) Life Science
14 26 (0.77%) Algorithms
15 24 (0.71%) FMCG
16 23 (0.68%) Social Media
17 22 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
18 21 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
19 20 (0.59%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 110 (3.26%) Windows
2 95 (2.82%) Linux
3 45 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.01%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.68%) zOS
6 22 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (0.59%) Android
8 19 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.47%) Unix
9 16 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.45%) Windows XP
11 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.12%) VMS
15 3 (0.089%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.059%) AIX
16 2 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,049 (31.13%) Agile
2 756 (22.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 683 (20.27%) Project Delivery
4 672 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
5 533 (15.82%) PRINCE2
6 422 (12.52%) Change Management
7 346 (10.27%) Risk Management
8 285 (8.46%) Decision-Making
9 277 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 277 (8.22%) Migration
10 249 (7.39%) Scrum
11 236 (7.00%) Waterfall
12 218 (6.47%) Programme Management
13 211 (6.26%) Project Planning
14 204 (6.05%) Business Case
15 200 (5.93%) DevOps
16 189 (5.61%) Roadmaps
17 178 (5.28%) Analytics
18 173 (5.13%) ITIL
19 171 (5.07%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (3.68%) SQL
2 103 (3.06%) Python
3 67 (1.99%) PowerShell
4 51 (1.51%) Java
5 45 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 27 (0.80%) C
7 22 (0.65%) Bash
7 22 (0.65%) C#
8 21 (0.62%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.53%) JCL
11 15 (0.45%) REXX
12 13 (0.39%) PHP
13 12 (0.36%) Scala
14 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.21%) R
15 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.21%) XPath
15 7 (0.21%) XQuery
16 6 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 567 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 557 (16.53%) Degree
3 376 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 230 (6.82%) PMP
5 223 (6.62%) PMI Certification
6 164 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 73 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.72%) APMP
10 51 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 42 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.25%) CISSP
12 39 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 34 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 33 (0.98%) CCNA
15 31 (0.92%) CISM
16 29 (0.86%) CCNP
17 21 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.47%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (10.39%) PMO
2 212 (6.29%) QA
3 53 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.31%) GDPR
5 42 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 29 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (0.86%) SLA
7 26 (0.77%) JSP 440
8 18 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 15 (0.45%) NIST
10 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.33%) GxP
11 10 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.30%) NCSC
11 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
12 9 (0.27%) P3O
13 8 (0.24%) Basel III
14 7 (0.21%) IFRS
14 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 41 (1.22%) Docker
3 31 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (0.56%) NFS
6 18 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
7 11 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.24%) 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 (0.089%) KVM
11 3 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.089%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.059%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 54 (1.60%) Ansible
2 44 (1.31%) Terraform
3 41 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 28 (0.83%) SCCM
5 26 (0.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 23 (0.68%) vCenter Server
7 21 (0.62%) Grafana
8 19 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.56%) SCOM
9 15 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
9 15 (0.45%) Puppet
9 15 (0.45%) WSUS
10 14 (0.42%) NetBackup
10 14 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.39%) Graylog
12 9 (0.27%) Nagios
13 8 (0.24%) PingFederate
13 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 521 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 299 (8.87%) SAP
3 123 (3.65%) Oracle
4 74 (2.20%) Cisco
5 58 (1.72%) Adobe
6 56 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 52 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.34%) Google
9 44 (1.31%) VMware
10 38 (1.13%) Dell
11 37 (1.10%) IBM
11 37 (1.10%) Juniper
12 35 (1.04%) Ariba
13 31 (0.92%) Splunk
14 24 (0.71%) Atlassian
15 22 (0.65%) Broadcom
15 22 (0.65%) CA
15 22 (0.65%) HP
15 22 (0.65%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.59%) Symantec