Project Manager Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Project Manager
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The median Project Manager daily rate in Warwickshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 30 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 5.40% 7.74% 9.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.98% 8.85% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 24
10th Percentile £340 £405 £533
25th Percentile £431 £506 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile - £638 £641
90th Percentile £663 £668 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.92
Median hourly rate - - £30.96
75th Percentile - - £35.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.95%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Warwickshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warwickshire. 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 Warwickshire with a recognized job title 502 260 298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 87.54% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 183 211
10th Percentile £305 £244 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £688
90th Percentile £750 £674 £825
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 27
10th Percentile £22.97 £15.14 £13.49
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.88 £17.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.18 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +25.24% -
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £27.67
90th Percentile £59.50 £43.65 £36.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.41% -17.59% +17.33%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

Project Manager job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Warwickshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Warwickshire

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Warwickshire

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Warwickshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Warwickshire

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. 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
Warwick -5 12 £600 -4.00%
Stratford-upon-Avon +4 4 £425 -32.00%
Gaydon -4 1 £250 -39.02%
Project Manager
West Midlands

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire

For the 6 months to 30 March 2026, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Warwickshire region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 18 (60.00%) Project Management
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 10 (33.33%) Scrum
5 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (26.67%) PRINCE2
7 7 (23.33%) Degree
7 7 (23.33%) JIRA
8 6 (20.00%) AI
8 6 (20.00%) CyberArk
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) Generative AI
8 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
9 5 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
9 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
9 5 (16.67%) PMP
9 5 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (16.67%) Product Strategy
9 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
10 4 (13.33%) Azure
10 4 (13.33%) Change Management
10 4 (13.33%) Contract Management
10 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (13.33%) Migration
10 4 (13.33%) Oracle
10 4 (13.33%) PMO
10 4 (13.33%) Project Governance
11 3 (10.00%) CISM

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Social Housing
6 1 (3.33%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (13.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) CMDB
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Project Management
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 10 (33.33%) Scrum
5 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (26.67%) PRINCE2
7 6 (20.00%) AI
7 6 (20.00%) DevOps
7 6 (20.00%) Generative AI
7 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 5 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
8 5 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
8 5 (16.67%) Product Strategy
8 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
9 4 (13.33%) Change Management
9 4 (13.33%) Contract Management
9 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (13.33%) Migration
9 4 (13.33%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 5 (16.67%) PMP
3 3 (10.00%) CISM
3 3 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) PMO
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) BT
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Okta
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow