Project Manager Contracts in the West Midlands

Project Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Project Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 82 144 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.62% 7.09% 9.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.22% 7.74% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 101 145
10th Percentile £400 £413 £363
25th Percentile £432 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% -2.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £595
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £26.92 £28.67
25th Percentile - £27.75 £30.97
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £36.07
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -2.95% -
75th Percentile - £43.75 £42.41
90th Percentile - - £45.46
England median hourly rate £47.50 £35.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +33.80% -43.20% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,318 1,861 2,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.40% 91.58% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1,255 1,424
10th Percentile £200 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £700 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 146 62
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.02 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.63
Median hourly rate £22.05 £19.59 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -3.26% +15.71%
75th Percentile £33.91 £39.69 £28.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.63 £57.13
England median hourly rate £29.00 £38.50 £44.53
% change year-on-year -24.68% -13.54% +85.54%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the West Midlands

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in the West Midlands

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in the West Midlands

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in the West Midlands

Project Manager
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 Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 2025. 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 +1 33 £525 +5.00% 36
Warwickshire -13 19 £525 -12.50% 4
Coventry +2 7 £475 -20.83% 1
Staffordshire -4 6 £475 -5.00% 12
Solihull +11 4 £488 +30.00% 2
Shropshire +3 3 £501 - 3
Worcestershire -4 2 - - 2
Walsall - 1 £425 - 1
Project Manager
England

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 12 June 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 35 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 32 (39.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (36.59%) Project Management
4 27 (32.93%) Finance
5 22 (26.83%) Agile
6 17 (20.73%) Migration
7 13 (15.85%) Change Management
8 11 (13.41%) PRINCE2
8 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (13.41%) Project Delivery
9 10 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (12.20%) Risk Management
10 9 (10.98%) Legal
10 9 (10.98%) Programme Management
10 9 (10.98%) Degree
10 9 (10.98%) Data Governance
10 9 (10.98%) Change Control
10 9 (10.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (9.76%) Waterfall
11 8 (9.76%) Data Protection
12 7 (8.54%) JIRA
12 7 (8.54%) Project Planning
12 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Project
12 7 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (8.54%) Data Migration
12 7 (8.54%) Security Cleared
13 6 (7.32%) Project Governance
13 6 (7.32%) Power BI
13 6 (7.32%) Microsoft

Project Manager Skill Set
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 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.32%) Power Platform
2 3 (3.66%) SaaS
3 2 (2.44%) Azure
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.22%) Internet
2 1 (1.22%) LAN
2 1 (1.22%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Power BI
2 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.44%) Metadata
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.22%) QlikView
3 1 (1.22%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) JIRA
General
1 35 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.93%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Legal
5 6 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Automotive
6 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.88%) Law
8 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.44%) Banking
9 2 (2.44%) Local Government
9 2 (2.44%) Military
10 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.44%) LDAP
2 1 (1.22%) ADO
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.88%) Driving Licence
2 4 (4.88%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.66%) NHS
4 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.44%) FMCG
4 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.44%) PMI
5 1 (1.22%) CCTV
5 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.22%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.22%) EPoS
5 1 (1.22%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) SCADA
5 1 (1.22%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (36.59%) Project Management
3 22 (26.83%) Agile
4 17 (20.73%) Migration
5 13 (15.85%) Change Management
6 11 (13.41%) PRINCE2
6 11 (13.41%) Project Delivery
6 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (12.20%) Risk Management
8 9 (10.98%) Change Control
8 9 (10.98%) Data Governance
8 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.98%) Programme Management
9 8 (9.76%) Data Protection
9 8 (9.76%) Waterfall
10 7 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.54%) Data Migration
10 7 (8.54%) Project Planning
11 6 (7.32%) CRM
11 6 (7.32%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.66%) SQL
2 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) BPSS Clearance
1 9 (10.98%) Degree
2 7 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) PMP
4 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (2.44%) APMP
8 1 (1.22%) CISSP
8 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) GDPR
1 5 (6.10%) PMO
1 5 (6.10%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.10%) SAP
3 2 (2.44%) Cognos
3 2 (2.44%) Guidewire
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle
3 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.22%) Civica
4 1 (1.22%) Infor
4 1 (1.22%) Optimizely