IT Project Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IT Project Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Project Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 260 255
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 0
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 55 85 238
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.55% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.59% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 176
10th Percentile £438 £363 £353
25th Percentile £500 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £740 £638
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +3.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £23.63 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.39% -61.12% +16.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.63 -
90th Percentile £75.25 £45.70 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £34.14 £62.50
% change year-on-year +119.70% -45.38% +21.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Project Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured IT Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Project Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Project Manager.

IT Project Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IT Project Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IT Project Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Project Manager.

IT Project Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IT Project Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IT Project Manager hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 31 (56.36%) Project Management
1 31 (56.36%) Finance
2 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
3 19 (34.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 14 (25.45%) Agile
6 13 (23.64%) Banking
7 10 (18.18%) Migration
8 9 (16.36%) PRINCE2
9 8 (14.55%) Budget Management
10 7 (12.73%) Risk Management
10 7 (12.73%) Change Management
10 7 (12.73%) Waterfall
11 6 (10.91%) Degree
11 6 (10.91%) JIRA
11 6 (10.91%) Scrum
11 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
11 6 (10.91%) Technology Transformation
11 6 (10.91%) Resource Allocation
11 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (9.09%) PMO
12 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (9.09%) Data Migration
12 5 (9.09%) SaaS
12 5 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (9.09%) Azure
13 4 (7.27%) AWS
13 4 (7.27%) Retail Banking
13 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
13 4 (7.27%) PMI Certification

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.09%) Azure
1 5 (9.09%) SaaS
2 4 (7.27%) AWS
3 1 (1.82%) Asana
3 1 (1.82%) IaaS
3 1 (1.82%) OCI
3 1 (1.82%) PaaS
3 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.82%) Smartsheet
3 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Firewall
2 2 (3.64%) LAN
2 2 (3.64%) WAN
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.82%) Internet
3 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) JIRA
General
1 31 (56.36%) Finance
2 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.64%) Banking
4 4 (7.27%) Retail Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Life Science
3 2 (3.64%) PMI
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.82%) FMCG
4 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.82%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.82%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) Project Management
2 19 (34.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 14 (25.45%) Agile
5 10 (18.18%) Migration
6 9 (16.36%) PRINCE2
7 8 (14.55%) Budget Management
8 7 (12.73%) Change Management
8 7 (12.73%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.73%) Waterfall
9 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.91%) Resource Allocation
9 6 (10.91%) Scrum
9 6 (10.91%) Technology Transformation
10 5 (9.09%) Data Migration
10 5 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (7.27%) Business Case
12 3 (5.45%) Business Continuity
12 3 (5.45%) Project Planning
13 2 (3.64%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.64%) C#
1 2 (3.64%) SQL
2 1 (1.82%) Java
2 1 (1.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.45%) PMP
3 3 (5.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CISA
4 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) APMP
5 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.82%) MBA
5 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) PMO
2 2 (3.64%) COBIT
2 2 (3.64%) COSO
2 2 (3.64%) GDPR
2 2 (3.64%) NIST
2 2 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle
2 2 (3.64%) Planview
2 2 (3.64%) Workday
3 1 (1.82%) Ariba
3 1 (1.82%) Aruba
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco
3 1 (1.82%) Citrix
3 1 (1.82%) F5
3 1 (1.82%) Imperva
3 1 (1.82%) SAP
3 1 (1.82%) VMware
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