Project Management Contracts in Worcestershire

Project Management
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 5.88% 7.69% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 9.21% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £380 £538
25th Percentile - £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -5.45% +48.65%
75th Percentile - £535 £569
90th Percentile - £594 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £484
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.36% +1.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 76 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 94.12% 83.52% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 59 73
10th Percentile £160 £210 £215
25th Percentile £509 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +26.51%
75th Percentile £734 £588 £600
90th Percentile £900 £613 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 0
10th Percentile £13.01 £10.50 -
25th Percentile £15.36 £10.72 -
Median hourly rate £17.16 £20.74 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% - -
75th Percentile £33.73 £63.13 -
90th Percentile £62.69 £72.75 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +47.06%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Worcestershire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Worcestershire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Worcestershire

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Worcester -3 2 - - 32
Project Management
West Midlands

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Humanities
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) NHS Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Civica
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft