Project Management Contracts in Wiltshire

Project Management
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 33 95 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.35% 10.06% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 12.21% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 58 78
10th Percentile £220 £306 £424
25th Percentile £374 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £685 £609 £713
90th Percentile £738 £716 £725
South West median daily rate £472 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -9.01% -5.68% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £106.25
90th Percentile - - £110.00
South West median hourly rate £58.75 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +67.86% -46.15% +283.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Wiltshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Wiltshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Wiltshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Wiltshire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Corsham +2 19 £445 -13.17% 5
Salisbury -14 6 £550 +4.76% 1
Swindon -11 3 £725 +67.63% 41
Melksham - 1 - -
Chippenham - 1 £530 - 13
Project Management
South West

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Skype
1 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) DHCP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) OSPF
2 1 (3.03%) SMTP
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.03%) VLAN
2 1 (3.03%) VoIP
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (42.42%) Public Sector
3 10 (30.30%) Finance
4 7 (21.21%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (21.21%) Police
5 6 (18.18%) Fire and Rescue
5 6 (18.18%) Military
6 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.03%) Legal
8 1 (3.03%) Local Government
8 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Project Manager
2 7 (21.21%) Service Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Coordinator
4 4 (12.12%) Report Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Service Level Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Security Assurance Coordinator
6 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
6 2 (6.06%) IT Services Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (6.06%) Release Manager
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Author
7 1 (3.03%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Service Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Author
7 1 (3.03%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Agile
1 11 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (30.30%) Service Management
3 9 (27.27%) ITIL
3 9 (27.27%) ITSM
4 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 6 (18.18%) Service Catalogue
6 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery
8 3 (9.09%) Budget Management
8 3 (9.09%) Business Case
8 3 (9.09%) Change Management
8 3 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
8 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (84.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
4 5 (15.15%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (6.06%) CISA
5 2 (6.06%) CISSP
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.06%) JSP 440
1 2 (6.06%) RMADS
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.03%) SCCM
1 1 (3.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
1 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
2 2 (6.06%) Foundry
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) Remedy
3 1 (3.03%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Workday