Project Management Contracts in Cardiff

Project Management
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 14 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 30 28 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.08% 9.82% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.11% 11.16% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 30
10th Percentile £363 £397 £262
25th Percentile £486 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +10.27% +12.67%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £547
90th Percentile £667 £635 £593
South Wales median daily rate £540 £538 £490
% change year-on-year +0.47% +9.75% +18.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 251 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 73.71% 88.07% 81.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 194 315
10th Percentile £143 £190 £260
25th Percentile £366 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £553 £586 £550
90th Percentile £627 £645 £646
South Wales median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £13.24 - £13.75
25th Percentile £15.48 £13.00 £15.31
Median hourly rate £18.57 £16.45 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -8.64% +18.89%
75th Percentile £21.67 £23.75 £22.81
90th Percentile - £24.50 £24.75
South Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £20.24
% change year-on-year +11.55% -10.38% -2.58%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Cardiff

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Cardiff

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Cardiff

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP HCM
1 2 (6.67%) SAP HR
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) GitHub
2 9 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) Azure
4 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) VPN
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) Internet
3 1 (3.33%) IP Telephony
3 1 (3.33%) LAN
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) MySQL
2 7 (23.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 10 (33.33%) Postman
3 8 (26.67%) GitLab
4 6 (20.00%) Storybook
5 4 (13.33%) JIRA
6 1 (3.33%) AppScan
6 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
6 1 (3.33%) Git
6 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.33%) Subversion
6 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Project Manager
3 6 (20.00%) PHP Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Agile Project Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) DBA
5 3 (10.00%) Software Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Software Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) MySQL DBA
6 2 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Architect
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Agile Development Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) Vue
2 10 (33.33%) Laravel
3 8 (26.67%) Playwright
4 6 (20.00%) React
5 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (63.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) Test Automation
3 14 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (33.33%) Analytics
5 8 (26.67%) Data Analytics
6 7 (23.33%) Front End Development
6 7 (23.33%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (23.33%) Scrum
7 6 (20.00%) Objectives and Key Results
7 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Kanban
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (13.33%) Change Control
9 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
9 4 (13.33%) Manual Testing
9 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
9 4 (13.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) PHP
1 7 (23.33%) TypeScript
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.33%) PMP
2 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
1 4 (13.33%) Grafana
1 4 (13.33%) Graylog
1 4 (13.33%) Nagios
1 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Nessus
2 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Splunk
3 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.67%) Progress
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Meraki
5 1 (3.33%) Veracode