Project Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Project Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Project Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £517, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 30 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 494 879 1,711
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.86% 6.03% 7.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.17% 6.44% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 571 1,227
10th Percentile £370 £325 £391
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -4.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 38
10th Percentile £31.21 £23.63 £30.54
25th Percentile £42.11 £30.16 £39.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -36.76% -2.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £60.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £87.05 £62.00 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +60.00% -40.00% +15.74%

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 9,557 13,653 23,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.71% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,414 9,187 16,273
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 543 550
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.16 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.21 £22.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £79.02
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

Project Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

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 Project Manager.

Project Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Project Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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 Project Manager.

Project Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Project Manager hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 243 (49.19%) Project Management
2 192 (38.87%) Finance
2 192 (38.87%) Social Skills
3 161 (32.59%) Agile
4 148 (29.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 110 (22.27%) Project Delivery
6 86 (17.41%) PRINCE2
7 85 (17.21%) Migration
8 68 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (12.55%) Change Management
9 62 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 61 (12.35%) Waterfall
10 61 (12.35%) PMI Certification
11 60 (12.15%) Banking
12 59 (11.94%) PMP
13 54 (10.93%) Risk Management
14 51 (10.32%) JIRA
15 49 (9.92%) Microsoft
16 43 (8.70%) Azure
17 42 (8.50%) PMO
18 40 (8.10%) Degree
19 39 (7.89%) SAP
19 39 (7.89%) Security Cleared
20 36 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
20 36 (7.29%) Scrum
21 34 (6.88%) Microsoft Project
21 34 (6.88%) Project Planning
22 31 (6.28%) Legal
22 31 (6.28%) Budget Management
23 29 (5.87%) Public Sector

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 18 (3.64%) Confluence
2 11 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.62%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (6.88%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.21%) Trello
5 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.61%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.40%) Maximo
3 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.40%) OPENHousing
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.40%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.40%) Shopify
3 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.40%) Workfront
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle iSupplier
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 43 (8.70%) Azure
2 20 (4.05%) AWS
3 17 (3.44%) SaaS
4 12 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.23%) Asana
5 11 (2.23%) Power Platform
6 9 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.42%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.81%) OCI
9 3 (0.61%) Alation
9 3 (0.61%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.61%) Smartsheet
9 3 (0.61%) SonarCloud
10 2 (0.40%) Contentful
10 2 (0.40%) IaaS
10 2 (0.40%) PaaS
10 2 (0.40%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.40%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.42%) Firewall
1 7 (1.42%) WAN
2 4 (0.81%) 5G
2 4 (0.81%) LAN
2 4 (0.81%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.81%) VPN
3 3 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.40%) 4G
4 2 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) 2G
5 1 (0.20%) GSM
5 1 (0.20%) Internet
5 1 (0.20%) NGFW
5 1 (0.20%) Packet Switching
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
5 1 (0.20%) SSH
5 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.02%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.62%) Power BI
3 6 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.61%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.20%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.20%) GIS
6 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.20%) Looker
6 1 (0.20%) Metadata
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.20%) Tableau
6 1 (0.20%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 51 (10.32%) JIRA
2 3 (0.61%) Snyk
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.20%) MSI
3 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 192 (38.87%) Finance
1 192 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 60 (12.15%) Banking
3 36 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.28%) Legal
5 29 (5.87%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.26%) Marketing
7 21 (4.25%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.05%) Retail
9 18 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.83%) Billing
12 13 (2.63%) Local Government
13 12 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.62%) Law
16 5 (1.01%) French Language
16 5 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.21%) ADO
2 4 (0.81%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.40%) .NET
3 2 (0.40%) HTML
3 2 (0.40%) LDAP
3 2 (0.40%) Middleware
3 2 (0.40%) SAML
4 1 (0.20%) CSS
4 1 (0.20%) FIDO
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.20%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.44%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.04%) Data Centre
2 15 (3.04%) PMI
3 13 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.62%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.21%) Life Science
7 6 (1.21%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.01%) NHS
8 5 (1.01%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.81%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.81%) Derivative
9 4 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.61%) Housing Association
10 3 (0.61%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.44%) Windows
2 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
2 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.40%) Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (49.19%) Project Management
2 161 (32.59%) Agile
3 148 (29.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 110 (22.27%) Project Delivery
5 86 (17.41%) PRINCE2
6 85 (17.21%) Migration
7 68 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (12.55%) Change Management
8 62 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 61 (12.35%) Waterfall
10 54 (10.93%) Risk Management
11 36 (7.29%) Scrum
12 34 (6.88%) Project Planning
13 31 (6.28%) Budget Management
14 29 (5.87%) Data Migration
14 29 (5.87%) Project Governance
15 28 (5.67%) Decision-Making
16 27 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
17 21 (4.25%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 4 (0.81%) SQL
2 2 (0.40%) C#
3 1 (0.20%) Java
3 1 (0.20%) Python
Qualifications
1 61 (12.35%) PMI Certification
2 59 (11.94%) PMP
3 40 (8.10%) Degree
4 39 (7.89%) Security Cleared
5 29 (5.87%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 7 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.61%) APMP
9 3 (0.61%) CISSP
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.40%) RIBA
11 1 (0.20%) APMG
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) CRISC
11 1 (0.20%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.50%) PMO
2 14 (2.83%) QA
3 8 (1.62%) GDPR
3 8 (1.62%) NIST
4 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.61%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (0.61%) GxP
5 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.61%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.40%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
7 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.61%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (0.40%) SCCM
2 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 49 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.89%) SAP
3 13 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.23%) Ariba
5 9 (1.82%) Oracle
6 8 (1.62%) Workday
7 7 (1.42%) Cisco
7 7 (1.42%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.01%) Adobe
8 5 (1.01%) VMware
9 4 (0.81%) Civica
9 4 (0.81%) IBM
9 4 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.61%) Amdocs
10 3 (0.61%) Blue Prism
10 3 (0.61%) Ciena
10 3 (0.61%) Citrix
10 3 (0.61%) Google
10 3 (0.61%) NetCracker
10 3 (0.61%) Pega