Project Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Project Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 164 225 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.64% 9.78% 9.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 11.07% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 144 266
10th Percentile £307 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% +3.95% +18.75%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £618 £619
England median daily rate £525 £533 £505
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.54% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 0
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.58 -
25th Percentile £15.13 £23.22 -
Median hourly rate £31.75 £27.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.50 -
90th Percentile £58.75 £79.00 -
England median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +46.97% +23.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,590 2,033 3,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.77% 88.35% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,387 2,340
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +3.09%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.13 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +2 57 £500 - 99
Warwickshire -1 47 £600 +9.09% 46
Staffordshire +4 19 £413 +1.41% 26
Coventry +7 10 £600 +17.07% 28
Solihull -16 5 £325 -11.86% 4
Shropshire +18 4 £137 - 16
Worcestershire +10 4 £413 -2.94% 20
Herefordshire -8 2 - - 2
Walsall 0 1 £325 -7.14% 5
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (7.32%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.66%) Simulink
5 5 (3.05%) Stateflow
5 5 (3.05%) TargetLink
6 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.61%) Revit
7 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.22%) iTrent
2 2 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.22%) Primavera
3 1 (0.61%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 8 (4.88%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.05%) Azure
3 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.22%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.22%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.22%) SaaS
4 2 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.61%) AWS
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.61%) IaaS
5 1 (0.61%) OCI
5 1 (0.61%) PaaS
5 1 (0.61%) Serverless
5 1 (0.61%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) Network Security
2 4 (2.44%) Firewall
2 4 (2.44%) VPN
3 3 (1.83%) Intranet
3 3 (1.83%) LAN
3 3 (1.83%) WAN
4 2 (1.22%) Internet
4 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) Junos
5 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.88%) Power BI
2 2 (1.22%) MS Access
2 2 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.61%) Metadata
3 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.61%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (4.27%) JIRA
2 6 (3.66%) Bitbucket
2 6 (3.66%) Git
3 5 (3.05%) Subversion
General
1 73 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 53 (32.32%) Finance
3 37 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.93%) Law
5 13 (7.93%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (6.10%) Automotive
7 7 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.27%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.66%) Banking
9 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.05%) Legal
9 5 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.44%) Marketing
10 4 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.83%) Retail
12 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 78 (47.56%) Project Manager
2 28 (17.07%) Senior
3 22 (13.41%) Analyst
4 13 (7.93%) IT Manager
5 12 (7.32%) IT Project Manager
5 12 (7.32%) Senior Manager
6 11 (6.71%) PMO Analyst
6 11 (6.71%) Senior Project Manager
7 10 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.49%) Architect
9 8 (4.88%) Senior PMO
10 7 (4.27%) Security Manager
10 7 (4.27%) Security Project Manager
10 7 (4.27%) Senior PMO Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) AML Project Manager
11 6 (3.66%) Change Manager
11 6 (3.66%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Control Systems Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.61%) Ajax
1 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.61%) OpenAPI
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.61%) REST
1 1 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (0.61%) SAP PI
1 1 (0.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.05%) PMI
6 4 (2.44%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.83%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.22%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
1 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (26.83%) Agile
3 39 (23.78%) Project Delivery
4 36 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (12.20%) Change Management
5 20 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (12.20%) PRINCE2
6 18 (10.98%) Risk Management
7 16 (9.76%) Decision-Making
8 14 (8.54%) Migration
9 13 (7.93%) Resource Management
10 12 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (6.71%) Business Strategy
11 11 (6.71%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (6.71%) Resource Allocation
11 11 (6.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (6.10%) ERP
12 10 (6.10%) Project Planning
12 10 (6.10%) Scrum
12 10 (6.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.66%) MATLAB
2 5 (3.05%) C
2 5 (3.05%) Python
3 4 (2.44%) Java
3 4 (2.44%) SQL
4 1 (0.61%) C++
4 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.61%) Perl
4 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.76%) Degree
2 15 (9.15%) PMP
3 14 (8.54%) PMI Certification
4 10 (6.10%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.49%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.66%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.22%) CCNA
8 2 (1.22%) CCNP
8 2 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.61%) APMG
9 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.61%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.61%) RIBA
9 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.41%) PMO
2 7 (4.27%) QA
3 6 (3.66%) ISO 26262
4 5 (3.05%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (3.05%) MISRA
4 5 (3.05%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.83%) GDPR
5 3 (1.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) IFRS
6 1 (0.61%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.61%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Functional Safety
1 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.61%) Kibana
1 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 18 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.93%) SAP
3 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.83%) Oracle
5 2 (1.22%) Cisco
5 2 (1.22%) NEC
6 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.61%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.61%) HP
6 1 (0.61%) IFS
6 1 (0.61%) Juniper
6 1 (0.61%) Palantir
6 1 (0.61%) Planview
6 1 (0.61%) Snow