Project Manager Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Project Manager
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The median Project Manager daily rate in Warwickshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 24 16 30
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 3.70% 5.00% 9.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.03% 5.59% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 19
10th Percentile £298 £405 £508
25th Percentile £427 £437 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £605 £650
90th Percentile £638 £656 £678
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
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 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.83% +71.43% -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 595 286 289
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 188 202
10th Percentile £307 £235 £357
25th Percentile £406 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £635 £600 £700
90th Percentile £775 £658 £848
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £488 £492
% change year-on-year -2.56% -0.81% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 29
10th Percentile £25.77 £14.35 £13.49
25th Percentile £30.00 £16.89 £17.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £33.99 £33.91 £26.92
90th Percentile £34.56 £38.75 £35.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.49 £17.62 £22.00
% change year-on-year +90.07% -19.91% +10.00%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -8 10 £575 -4.17% 1
Stratford-upon-Avon - 6 £438 -
Gaydon -5 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 11 May 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 15 (62.50%) Project Management
2 12 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) Project Delivery
4 9 (37.50%) Scrum
5 6 (25.00%) AI
5 6 (25.00%) Generative AI
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 6 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 5 (20.83%) Azure
6 5 (20.83%) Degree
6 5 (20.83%) JIRA
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.67%) Contract Management
8 3 (12.50%) CISM
8 3 (12.50%) CISSP
8 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Internal Audit
8 3 (12.50%) Network Security
8 3 (12.50%) Oracle
8 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
8 3 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
8 3 (12.50%) PMI Certification
8 3 (12.50%) PMP
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
8 3 (12.50%) Programme Management

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 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Law
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Social Housing
6 1 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Project Management
2 12 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) Project Delivery
4 9 (37.50%) Scrum
5 6 (25.00%) AI
5 6 (25.00%) Generative AI
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 6 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.67%) Contract Management
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Internal Audit
8 3 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
8 3 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (12.50%) Trend Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) CISM
2 3 (12.50%) CISSP
2 3 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 3 (12.50%) PMP
3 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) PMO
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) BT
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Okta
4 1 (4.17%) Workday